Gohmert: Obama Is Blackmailing General Petraeus into Silence on Benghazi

“This administration knows that General Petraeus has information that would virtually destroy any credibility that the administration might still have nationally and internationally. So what else would this administration do but leave over his head for a year and a half the threat, ‘We’re going to prosecute you so you better keep your mouth shut.'" And actually, they know that just a threat of prosecution helps diminish potential credibility.

So if you wonder why General Petraeus has not come out in the last year in a half and said, ‘No those weren’t our talking points, somebody that created them needs to be prosecuted, it was a fraud on the American people' -- he’s not going to say that, he’s got this administration hanging a prosecution over his head. What do you expect? I doubt he’ll ever be able to say it without worrying about something over his shoulder coming on after him. So here he is, he’s been defensive of the administration, he’s been a good solider, said what he’s wanted them to say, he hasn’t told all he could say and they’re going to make sure he doesn’t or if he does, he pays a heavy criminal price.

That's where we are now in America. It may have been the kind of administration Richard Nixon dreamed of, but he knew he could never get there. He could not weaponize the IRS, he barely dreamed of it. This administration has done it."