Friday, November 09, 2012   You know about this: Wonkette
responds: But you don't have to go to Gateway Pundit or Jerome
Corsi for that sort of speculation -- here's Mark Halperin with
his own cryptic, garbled, but unmistakable hint that political
operatives in the Obama White House were blackmailing Petraeus.
Go to about 1:29 in this video:  HALPERIN: Whenever there's
tension -- behind the scenes for the most part -- between the
executive branch, the political part of the executive branch,
and the CIA and the intelligence community, you see a lot of
high-stakes pressure back and forth. Sometimes there are
threats. I'm not saying that's what happened in this case
affecting his resignation, but there's no question that the
political pressure on the State Department, on the White House,
over the facts and circumstances of the tragedy in Benghazi was
creating tension, has created tension, with the intelligence
community and the CIA, and so, at a minimum, the context of
General Petraeus's resignation is a time of