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The FBI Has Been Investigating Petraeus' Biographer Over Access To Classified Info
Business Insider ^ | Nov. 9, 2012, 6:23 PM | Kim Bashin

Posted on 11/09/2012 5:34:15 PM PST by FreeReign

CIA Director David Petraeus resigned over an extramarital affair, according to a letter he sent to CIA staff. The news was confirmed by Press Secretary Jay Carney in a briefing this afternoon.

Slate's Fred Kaplan quickly reported that the affair was with Paula Broadwell — Gen. Petraeus' biographer who was embedded with him in Afghanistan. Now, NBC is reporting that the FBI has been investigating Broadwell, fearing that she had access to some confidential information.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicoverup; broadwell; cia; libya; nationalsecurityfail; petraeus; petraeusaffair
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To: Tucker39
A little under the radar comment by E. Holder today. Said that he may not return as AG. Doesn't want to have to investigate Obie's involvement in this serious national security leak?
21 posted on 11/09/2012 5:46:39 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
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To: FreeReign

O’s government is running guns to drug cartels in Mexico and Honduras, running guns to Al Qaeda all across the middle east, and Petraeus steps down because of an affair they knew about before he became CIA director.

Because we can run guns to mafia and terrorists but our spymaster has to be squeaky clean while he does it.

Right.


22 posted on 11/09/2012 5:51:54 PM PST by marron
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To: FreeReign
Now, NBC is reporting that the FBI has been investigating Broadwell, fearing that she had access to some confidential information.

Oh, darn! Now the FBI will have to ONCE AGAIN suspend its ongoing investigation of Jon Corzine!!!

Darn the luck!

23 posted on 11/09/2012 5:52:56 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Sir Clancelot

Several years ago I had to take a lie detector test before I could work at a facility in the Nevada desert.

The first question was “Have you ever done anything ... WRONG?”


24 posted on 11/09/2012 5:54:53 PM PST by JohnnyP
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To: Ms Mable

It’s gotta be a Honey Trap. I mean look at this guy he hasn’t been laid by a good looking woman in his life he would be lucky to get laid in a whorehouse with a fist full of $100 dollar bills. And have you seen the picture of the woman in question she is very hott.


25 posted on 11/09/2012 5:56:49 PM PST by cquiggy
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To: FreeReign

How odd the title of the book would be “All In”.


26 posted on 11/09/2012 5:56:56 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: JohnnyP

If any rational people don’t believe that this election was a total fraud,
we are indeed Naive.


27 posted on 11/09/2012 5:57:27 PM PST by acapesket
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Agreed: Smelly timing. What a coinky dink.


28 posted on 11/09/2012 5:59:37 PM PST by SisterK (no compromises)
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To: FreeReign

OK, I real it all and the FBI accidentally found this while investigating something else, and they looked into it to see if there was anything being seen by Paula Broadwell accidentally that might be classified info. and found nothing. Petraeus has been sending thousands of emails to her evidentally from his office since the FBI found them.

The two of them had an affair and the FBI has found no cloak and dagger secret spy problem. It was just an affair but a CIA director can’t do that but he did.


29 posted on 11/09/2012 5:59:48 PM PST by Marcella (“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic)
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To: cquiggy

YEP, how convenient for O. People are going to have such a low opinion of him now...see, he was not/is not trustworthy, therefore, Benghazi has to be his fault.....

I always thought Pelosi had set honey traps on people in congress to “control” them. Nothing else could explain the control she has on them.


30 posted on 11/09/2012 6:04:58 PM PST by Ms Mable
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To: volunbeer

sounds way too much like the Edwards affair


31 posted on 11/09/2012 6:10:44 PM PST by molson209
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To: FreeReign

I’m hearing now on CNN that the woman broke up with him months ago and he kept sending thousands of emails to her using his military email. Very bad.


32 posted on 11/09/2012 6:11:51 PM PST by Marcella (“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic)
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To: Sir Clancelot
I am a bit surprised this didn’t get picked up on his vetting for the CIA position. I thought all senior government officials got vetted by the FBI. (Remember, these were the FBI files that were in the Clinton White House a number of years back that Clintoon had on his political rivals. It’s how they took down some Congressional leaders when they opposed Clinton.) It either means they didn’t vet him, or he mislead them during the vetting process.

After close to 20 years, the FBI has given up on vetting.

33 posted on 11/09/2012 6:12:16 PM PST by jwsea55
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To: 9422WMR
He fell on his sword for Obama.

On the contrary, I think he was about to rat out the administration over the Benghazi affair; they attempted to blackmail him, and he decided it was better to admit to adultery than to be blackmailed.

34 posted on 11/09/2012 6:12:22 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: cquiggy
the woman in question she is very hott.

She's also a US Military Academy West Point graduate who is married and is the mother of two children.

35 posted on 11/09/2012 6:12:28 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (USA!)
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To: JohnnyP
The first question was “Have you ever done anything ... WRONG?”

"Could you define the meaning of 'Wrong', please?"

36 posted on 11/09/2012 6:14:56 PM PST by jwsea55
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To: JohnnyP
The first question was “Have you ever done anything ... WRONG?”

The correct answer to that, of course, is "yes."

37 posted on 11/09/2012 6:15:19 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Ms Mable
YEP, how convenient for O. People are going to have such a low opinion of him now...see, he was not/is not trustworthy, therefore, Benghazi has to be his fault..... I always thought Pelosi had set honey traps on people in congress to “control” them. Nothing else could explain the control she has on them.

Not sure if Broadwell was a setup but yes, Petraeus is the fall gay for Benghazi.

They will out him now for the affair and they will claim that there may have been a security breech.

And the 50% of the people in this country who are sheeple will buy it.

38 posted on 11/09/2012 6:15:48 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Was Ms Broadwell paid to diddle the good General for an as-yet undisclosed reason ... or maybe, with the resignation, the reason has been disclosed.


39 posted on 11/09/2012 6:18:27 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Your scenario sounds quite plausible here. The fact that this was hitting the media right after Obama's "we must cooperate to deal with the fiscal cliff" press conference makes me wonder if the Republicans in the House of Representatives already know a lot more about Benghazi and the information that would have been in Petraeus' testimony than they are letting on.

I also wonder if Obama's victory on Tuesday didn't throw a monkey-wrench into a "blackmail" scenario that was intended to keep Petraeus quiet in the event Romney won.

40 posted on 11/09/2012 6:18:47 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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