Posted on 11/09/2012 3:00:39 PM PST by advance_copy
Ronald Kessler reporting from Washington, D.C. — The resignation of David H. Petraeus as CIA director followed an FBI investigation of many months, raising the question of why he was not forced out until after the election.
In his letter of resignation, Petraeus cited an extra-marital affair he had been having. “After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair,” Petraeus said in his letter to President Obama. “Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours.”
Petraeus, who had a distinguished military career, revealed no additional details. However, an FBI source says the investigation began when American intelligence mistook an email Petraeus had sent to his girlfriend as a reference to corruption. Petraeus was commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan from July 4, 2010 until July 18, 2011.
The investigation began last spring, but the FBI then pored over his emails when he was stationed in Afghanistan.
The woman who was having an affair with Petraeus is a journalist who had been writing about him.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Because the deeper you get into petraeus, the closer you get to earlier administrations...and betrayal. Do not forget that it was the nsa and state who tried to utterly destroy Bush on Iraq and Iran.
Where did saddam’s weapons go BEFORE our teams had a chance to search for them, and who oversaw that project?
This is only a plausible explanation if he is signaling to Republicans that he would be willing to testify. There is no reason to believe the FBI investigation would surface if he told the 0bama administration he was willing to continue to play ball.
I would agree. His emails may have prompted an FBI investigation but I doubt that's what led to his decision.....
I suspect that Petraeus was being pressured by the whore to divulge classified information and realizing that he was now a national security risk and subject to blackmail, he abruptly resigned.
sure - put us all in bureaus.
(sarc) Because I know you were kidding. (I hope)
If true, he would be more likely to have become aware of skeletons in the closet once he toke over as DCI. Consequently, the regime would have been much happier to allow him to leave with vague "personal reasons" of an unspecified nature so that they could continue to hold the affair over his head.
[Doh! toke = took.]
stupid spell checking - but I missed it.
should be “burka”, not bureau.
She is married, with 2 young boys.
So yea, a slut.
Yes I was.....well sort of.
well, he probably held a TS clearance at the very least.
imagine if some no-name worker bee with a TS clearance
had an affair..
He IS the skeleton in that closet.
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.
If true, that is all the more reason to let him depart in peace with the threat still hanging in the air; it does not answer the question, which is why did he preempt them?
The Intrade odds are going thru the roof...(heh)
Is their anyone in the US government that has not been compromised in some way or fashion ? Are they not the number one target for the worlds largest population of foreign spies ?
I honestly wonder how he would even pass a TS background investigation to get clearance. He has so many missing gaps, foreign connections, "lost" records and transcripts - a shady character, if you will... Anyone who is on an intel committee and/or has access to classified intel should have to pass an investigation - including POTUS.
Is their anyone in the US government that has not been compromised in some way or fashion ? Are they not the number one target for the worlds largest population of foreign spies ?
Absolutely no way he could get a TS...we chatted a lot about this back before his first election.
And now we have dozens of people around him that could never pick up one as well, yet they are as$ deep in our business.
“More men have been destroyed by women than wars and pestilence.”
I forget who said that. It was either Shakespeare, Churchill or Patton.
Why would the FBI be looking at an Army Officer? That doesn’t normally happen. An affair would normally go to Department of the Army Inspector General (DAIG), the office that handles investigations into generals.
Maybe the FBI was looking at her?
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