“Do I understand this right? Petraeus had the affair in Spring of 2011, and the FBI found out about it. This was when Petraeus was commander in Afganistan.”
I read it as the affair was noticed, and the FBI went back over the Afghan emails to see how long it had been going on,,I’m not sure anyone knew about it real time, so to speak.
Then again, everything coming out of DC is tainted, so who knows?
I have read the NewsMax article, and I think the FBI did know about this affair in real time. According to the article, the FBI suspected the issue in the Spring 2011. Petraeus was commander in Afghanistan at that time. 0zer0 appointed Petraeus to CIA in April 2011, but he didn’t assume the office until Sep 2011.
The article says the FBI was investigating this for months because Petraeus was sending thousands of emails to her. That had to be in 2011. This means that the FBI had to know what was going on in real time, probably even before Petraeus was confirmed, and that is why they couldn’t believe 0zer0 wouldn’t fire this guy, let alone hire the guy.
I don’t see any explanation other than 0zer0 knew about this (or someone high up in the admin did, and didn’t tell anyone... meaning FBI director, or Holder, or maybe the National Security Director hid it). But I can’t believe 0zer0 didn’t know. In fact, I bet 0zer0 counted on this trump card to be used against Petraeus when he needed it, and Benghazi is it. The timeline proves it.
Whether Petraeus has any smoking gun information and will spill it is completely unknown. But for me, I am convinced that 0zer0 knew about the affair and saved it to use later. The fact that 0zer0 would appoint and retain an obviously compromised CIA director, confirms everything you need to know about 0zer0.