they could have beer or a mango drink at a luxury hotel in libya scoffing at americans. i rest my case. speaks for itself. move on from there. you are a general. why would general petraeus go with this narrative? it s puzzling. this went out in cryptic traffic. that is the way we operate now. judge jeanine: back up. you believe everyone knew about it because it went out immediately? absolutely. that s the way the system is. they got a predator drone there in the last hour or so, and so that meant people were aware and the military chain was in and things were going on. they were talking in real-time to embassy and tripoli.
they could have beer or a mango drink at a luxury hotel in libya scoffing at americans. i rest my case. speaks for itself. move on from there. you are a general. why would general petraeus go with this narrative? it s puzzling. this went out in cryptic traffic. that is the way we operate now. judge jeanine: back up. you believe everyone knew about it because it went out immediately? absolutely. that s the way the system is. they got a predator drone there in the last hour or so, and so that meant people were aware and the military chain was in operation. and things were going on. they were talking in real-time to embassy and tripoli.
involved, judge, you know that and the facts are if it went in the military chain, we would know two days later what happened. we know where the people are. judge jeanine: why do you say that? i know we had a predator drone over in the end of the exercise . they obviously have certain forencic. they have their name and space. let s not kill ourselves chris: why would the administration not address the murder and violent murder of four? and they had asked for help and security? judge, i don t know that why they haven t. it should have been immediately. it was a terrorist attack by radical islamist . the fact is, it is that simple. they went through an elaborate cover up process and i believe it was purely to give time to the political process.
involved, judge, you know that and the facts are if it went in the military chain, we would know two days later what happened. we know where the people are. judge jeanine: why do you say that? i know we had a predator drone over in the end of the exercise . they obviously have certain forencic. they have their name and space. let s not kill ourselves chris: why would the administration not address the murder and violent murder of four? and they had asked for help and security? judge, i don t know that why they haven t. it should have been immediately. it was a terrorist attack by radical islamist . the fact is, it is that simple. they went through an elaborate cover up process and i believe it was purely to give time to the political process.
military insists of going in and overwhelming firepower. ac-130, gatling guns, backups. you know, after desert one in iran they didn t take any chances anymore. and i can see why the pakistanis wouldn t want to admit their complicit. why would they? what would they get out of it? it would just cause all sorts of internal problems. and it s a narrative that serves both washington and islamabad. and i think that s fine. i don t think we should know all the details. and often, as i said, again, with the pat tillman incident and with jessica lynch it s understandable why people would be suspicious about the initial story. do you believe the pakistanis would have known in advance? well, it s possible that certain elements of the government didn t know. i wouldn t have told the pakistanis at large because i wouldn t have trusted pakistan. they have violated our trust too many times. they ve lied to us tomb too many times. is it possible that maybe someone in the military chain got those