...of Benghazi.
Keep in mind this is a republican.
Keep in mind this guy didn't work in the State Department. He was head of the CIA during the time of the attacks. There is no reason he would not be candid about her. Not only that, but the two had a rough history going back to the controversy of the Iraq war.
http://gma.yahoo.com/did-petraeus-just-endorse-hillary-clinton-203957582--abc-news-topstories.html
Keep in mind this is a republican.
"She'd make a tremendous president," Petraeus says in the new book "HRC" by Jonathan Allen and Aimee Parnes.
And for Petraeus, Exhibit A in why she would be a tremendous president is the very thing for which Republicans most aggressively attack Clinton: her performance as Secretary of State when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked.
"Like a lot of great leaders, her most impressive qualities were most visible during tough times," Petraeus tells Allen and Parnes. "In the wake of the Benghazi attacks, for example, she was extraordinarily resolute, determined, and controlled."
Keep in mind this guy didn't work in the State Department. He was head of the CIA during the time of the attacks. There is no reason he would not be candid about her. Not only that, but the two had a rough history going back to the controversy of the Iraq war.
Petraeus's glowing assessment is especially interesting given his uneasy history with Hillary Clinton. She essentially accused Petraeus of lying about progress in Iraq when he was President Bush's commander there and she was a senator preparing to run for president.
http://gma.yahoo.com/did-petraeus-just-endorse-hillary-clinton-203957582--abc-news-topstories.html