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Petraeus told biographer to stop harassing family friend, officials say
WaPo ^ | November 12, 2012 | Sari Horwitz and Scott Wilson

Posted on 11/12/2012 1:40:25 PM PST by maggief

Former CIA director David H. Petraeus told the woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair to stop sending threatening e-mails to a family friend, Jill Kelley, after a federal investigation determined who was behind the harassment.

The move by Petraeus came in mid-summer after Kelley contacted a friend who worked as an FBI agent in Tampa, where she lived, beginning a process that would eventually force the former four-star former general to resign last week.

The new information, provided by two law enforcement officials, helps fill in a summer timeline when Petraeus’s e-mail account became the subject of a federal investigation into whether national security had been compromised during his affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

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At some point, Kelley told Petraeus about the e-mails and named Broadwell as the person who had sent them. That may have prompted the CIA director to send his own e-mails to Broadwell, telling her to stop the harassment, the law enforcement officials said.

People close to Petraeus say his affair with Broadwell ended four months ago, around the time he e-mailed her about the harassment.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; broadwell; libya; navyseals; petraeus; threatmatrix; threatmatrixbenghazi
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To: maggief
If Kelley was a close friend of Petraeus, why would she go to the FBI instead of Petraeus? I'm sure this same scenario plays out about serveral millions of times a year, but I doubt anybody thinks to run to the FBI first. Smells like a musty old mustache, like that thing hanging on Axelrod’s face.
41 posted on 11/12/2012 2:16:39 PM PST by throwback (The object of opening the mind, is as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: Veto!; Protect the Bill of Rights

ANYONE could have written the NYT that letter,

... then again it could be completely unrelated.


42 posted on 11/12/2012 2:18:40 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

I imagine there are details to be found in Florida, Northern VA and DC, ripe for the picking.
All one needs to do is look.


43 posted on 11/12/2012 2:20:05 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The affair is what Petraeus used to justify his resignation. His resignation ensures he will never have to speak about what he KNOWS about Benghazi.

Ever hear of the term "subpoena" and the subsequent "swearing under oath?"

As a side note, I doubt that a subpoena will be necessary to get the General to appear. But if it is, then it's likely a legal formality........

Whatever the case may be, the General will be testifying.........

44 posted on 11/12/2012 2:21:19 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: maggief

Ahh...The cute ones..there ALWAYS nuckin futs !


45 posted on 11/12/2012 2:21:35 PM PST by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where's your brothers ElCamino ?)
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To: onyx

Why would he need to have been told of the investigation right away? I don’t think that’s required of even garden variety workplace investigations.


46 posted on 11/12/2012 2:22:11 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Sacajaweau
I don’t think you can plead the 5th before congress

Really? Someone should have told these guys from Solyndra.

47 posted on 11/12/2012 2:22:20 PM PST by NonZeroSum
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To: onyx

“...*may* have prompted emails....”, the excerpt reports above. Then it reports in the last sentence “....he sent the emails. “, in the excerpt.

Just read on Drudge the AP account is that he didn’t know about the threats, was *shocked* to hear of the threats to friend in Tampa!

Alinsky wave in progress.

Also, AP reports he didn’t account for classified material found on Broadwell’s computer, someone else did it.... LOL! A must read 3rd column, top story. ( I wondered if the two contacted one another after being exposed.)

I have the feeling that given the seriousness of the charge, the two were warned NOT to impair or impede the investigation by any further contact or dialogue between them, don’t you? I dunno, since no charges were brought, maybe he was freed to fuss at her for harrassing his social friend in Tampa.

Thanks very much for the ping. I have been covering every printed word today, but haven’t had TV news on since the election. Devastated here.


48 posted on 11/12/2012 2:26:18 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Romulus

I agree, Romulus! Mrs. P looks to me like a nice lady. Her appearance is none of our business and I find it offensive for a 60yo woman to be criticized for not trying to make herself a sex kitten.


49 posted on 11/12/2012 2:29:06 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
No kidding. This version contradicts points that were news yesterday. 1) FBI said it wasn't Broadwell who sents the threats. (just came from her computer) 2.) Kelley didn't know who sent the threats, they were under a screenname. 3.) The threats didn't identify Petraeus as who Kelley was supposed to stay away from.

That may have prompted the CIA director to send his own e-mails to Broadwell,...

May have? Solid reporting by the ComPost. /s

The reporting on this story smells a lot like MSM smokescreen.

Pat Caddell called it. Do you believe it yet?

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: “These people have no honor!” Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

The Media will not report the truth!

50 posted on 11/12/2012 2:30:02 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Sacajaweau
-- I don't think you can plead the 5th before congress --

If you are granted immunity, then you must testify. And, Congress has the power to grant immunity. Absent a grant of immunity, an individual has the right to assert the fifth amendment.

Walsh Iran / Contra Report - Chapter 2 United States v. Oliver L. North

51 posted on 11/12/2012 2:30:31 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: July4
I also want his wife to lose 50 pounds, buy some appropriate and flattering clothes, get a good hairdresser and have a couple of lessons in applying a touch of make-up.

ditto... in the pic of her in her youth, she looked au naturale and attractive... but her natural look is not attractive today... i hate to say she let herself go, and in a perfect world, it should not matter... but it does--especially in this case... it doesn't excuse him, and there's no guarantee had she remain attractive that he would have stayed faithful... but in the colloquial words of today--"just sayin'"

52 posted on 11/12/2012 2:31:10 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: Sacajaweau
"I don’t think you can plead the 5th before congress"

Oh, yes you can. Unless you are granted immunity. Which Holder will not grant because he wants Petraeus to shut up.

53 posted on 11/12/2012 2:32:44 PM PST by cookcounty ("When I speak, I say what I mean and I mean what I say!" ---Joe Biden, 10/11/2012)
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To: July4

Do you want her to give you a lap dance too?


54 posted on 11/12/2012 2:33:14 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: 9YearLurker

Because he was head of the CIA and NOT a target.


55 posted on 11/12/2012 2:36:13 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Sacajaweau
I don’t think you can plead the 5th before congress

I seem to recall Denise Rich (among others) plead the fifth over and over during the Clinton pardongate hearings.

56 posted on 11/12/2012 2:36:16 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: maggief

I don’t care about this. What I want to know is what he knows about Benghazi.


57 posted on 11/12/2012 2:37:47 PM PST by Saundra Duffy ( For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: onyx

What do you mean “not a target” and why can’t the head of the CIA be investigated?


58 posted on 11/12/2012 2:38:16 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights; Ann Archy

One can lead a horse to water ...

The lapdog media is obsessed with WH talking points and designated anonymous sources.


59 posted on 11/12/2012 2:39:11 PM PST by maggief
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To: 9YearLurker; Romulus

My thanks to both of you for standing up for Mrs. P. I too get so sick and tired of 50-55-60-65 year old women being treated as failures, if they happen to carrying 40-50 extra pounds, dress matronly, don’t dye their hair, and aren’t in to spending hundreds of dollars on overpriced (faux) cosmetics.


60 posted on 11/12/2012 2:43:35 PM PST by nfldgirl
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