The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against David H. Petraeus, contending that he provided classified information to a lover while he was director of the C.I.A., officials said, and leaving Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to decide whether to seek an indictment that could send the pre-eminent military officer of his generation to prison.
The Justice Department investigation stems from an affair Mr. Petraeus had with Paula Broadwell, an Army Reserve officer who was writing his biography, and focuses on whether he gave her access to his C.I.A. email account and other highly classified information.
F.B.I. agents discovered classified documents on her computer after Mr. Petraeus resigned from the C.I.A. in 2012 when the affair became public.
General Petraeus was actually well respected by both sides of the aisle. However it was the conservatives who started promoting the idea that he should run for President.
Of course that was before he kinda endorsed Hillary Clinton for the job.
Personally I have never been a huge Petrraeus fan, still it is unfortunate to see a man with such a sterling reputation end his career in disgrace.
".....man with such a sterling reputation....."
ReplyDeleteGetting pusswa other than his wife and telling said pusswa shit he should not be talkin' about.
Nope.
".....man with such a sterling reputation....."
DeleteConfusus say: "Look at man who is promoted. Invariably it is true dat his shit don't stink."
Petraeus brought the disgrace on himself. Having an affair, and sharing his CIA email address, with Broadwell is a problem. He should have known better.
ReplyDeletehard to believe this is the first time the guy "strayed"
ReplyDeleteI think they are going to let him plead guilty in exchange for keeping the rest of his side games quiet.
If his name was anything other than Petraeus, his ass would already be in DOJ-ordered sling. Just ask Chelsea Manning.
ReplyDeleteBut luckily for Couldn;t-Keep-It-In-His-Pantseus, he'll get a pass from Eric Holder. Just like war criminals last-named Bush and Cheney did.
I have always wondered if the re-election of Barack Obama was the reason for his abrupt resignation in November 2012. I suspect if Karl Rove had managed to pull his dirty tricks and flip Ohio for Romney, Petraeus may have waited to see if the new adminsitration would cover up for him.
ReplyDeleteOne look at Paula Broadwell and you know she's hunting for big game. And she found it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if she'll be charged.
Oh yeah blame it on the female half of the cheating pair. Nice. Stupid shit, it takes two to tango and the male let his little head do the thinking instead of his big head. Did she take advantage of a weak male having a second teenage hood, maybe, but he could always SAY NO.
DeleteShe could have said, "No, you're married, and so am I."
DeleteShe could have told him to stop sending her classified info.
You say, "He could always say 'NO'." But Paula Broadwell certainly enticed him, and didn't say "no" herself, then rode her inside-look into a book to get sales and money.
Rotten, both of them.
McCain and his side kick Ms. Lindsey are up in arms that anyone would even consider thinking about indicting his war hero !!! So how did the classified documents end up on her computer?
ReplyDeleteMcCain should keep his mouth shut. The only reason he wasn't convicted with the Keating 5 was his "hero" status from being a POW. All the old Senators like him should be forced to resign.
DeleteTrue that.
DeleteHis sterling reputation was as phony as his sterling character. Conservatives think that moral standards are only for liberals and hypocrisy is only for conservatives. Petraeus is no better and no worse than the rest of them. Sooner or later they all get found out.
ReplyDeleteYou too, Sarah. You... too.
Anonymous 3:42...your second sentence is sooo true.
DeleteEpitaph for Poor Sarah and Crews...tick tock Sarah!
DeleteEspecially when those war criminals Bush and Darth Cheny get away with NOTHING in the way of charges.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing "sterling" about Betrayus and the rest of the loser generals who have not won a war in over 60 years. Sorry about their luck, but being too stupid to the fact they were used to defend the Halliburton/Cheney/Oil interests, while denying the men and women who fought. N'ah. Jail the crumb, while we wait for Cheney and Rice to hang.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather see Betray-us investigated for the death of Col. Ted Westhusing.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who thinks Petraeus resigned as CIA Director because he "suddenly" felt bad a year or two later about diddling a young honey he wasn't married to is an idiot.
ReplyDeleteHe resigned because he fucked up in Benghazi, but America didn't know his involvement (yet). It was a CIA compound that was attacked, and CIA operatives died. We all know that now. He's never answered for his fubar, and instead we've had to endure Secretary Clinton and the President come under fire for this ad nauseam. Petraeus is an ass, he was one of Palin's failed foreign policy "mentors" in 2008, he fucked up in Benghazi, he's never answered for it, and he's cost Americans dearly as we've bought a witch hunt of anyone in the Obama administration with a prominent (D) behind their name, while excusing the CIA Director of any role in the attack of a CIA facility on a CIA mission in which CIA operatives were killed. WTF?
When a CIA compound in a CIA mission is attacked and CIA operatives die, why the hell is the CIA Director given a pass? The assholes in Congress such as Trey Gowdy and Darrell Issa need to get the obvious questions answered, and quit with their tax payer funded endless fucking wild goose chase.
He got a fucking pass for his crimes so that all the shitheads tearing their shirts screaming BENGHAZI!! can keep Obama and Clinton as their targets for their misdirected outrage.
ReplyDeleteIs it All In yet? What's taken Holder so much time? This wasn't a matter he needed much thought to wonder the right thing to do. He leaked information, sensitive information, to his bed warmer, he's not some petty officer driving a jeep or getting pedicures. Throw away the key AFTER the door's locked.
ReplyDeleteAnd he profited from his crimes. And I was one of those who once respected this man, he's no better than a terrorist.
Since the information leaked to Broadwell most likely relates to "BENGHAZI!!", chances are that no charges will be pressed, so that Gowdy Dootie can continue on with his clown-car charade of a witch hunt on America's dime.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_TACkSVLs
Petraeus needs to be exposed to silence all the foaming-at-the-mouth "BENGHAZI!!" shriekers the same way that Palin needs to be exposed to shut up the legions of her clueless panty-sniffers.
This is what John McCain does, why he keeps getting elected as a valuable member of the Senate. He makes certain that his people aren't probed. (Palin)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-02/mccain-tells-fbi-to-end-petraeus-probe
General Betrayus got his "sterling reputation" from coddling the media. He spent MORE time giving them exclusive interviews and access than he did governing the war effort. Even a couple of reporters wondered why he had so much time to give them. The articles were hero-worship, not news. McCain did the same thing with his straight-talk express and the barbeques... and the press fawned all over him. :gag:
ReplyDeleteBroadwell did more than access classified information. She broadcast it, spoke about it, published it, disseminated it. By doing so, she made Betrayus appear as larger than life, and herself appear more important because of her special exclusive insider connection.
One of my favorite moments was a talk she was giving (I seem to remember a collegiate setting in Oregon or Washington), where she tells them that she is going to reveal something that nobody else knows because it was still classified... and then talks her mouth off.
In. A. Time. Of. War.
Betrayus got his original boost by marrying the Commandant's daughter, which got him instant access to important people, and his "boyish good looks" played well in D.C..
He doesn't have character, he has ambition. If he hadn't believed his own manufactured hype, and Broadwell's pillow talk, we could well be looking at him topping the Republican ticket.
Sometimes that shooting star is a meteorite, and sometimes it is a dud rocket.