“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 FBI just happened to see an odd email from Petraeus and spied on him from that point on? And if obama knew he was compromised, why appoint him to the CIA?
The FBI (Geheime Staatspolizei, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, whatever) was told to do opposition research of ALL possible candidates who might pose a threat to the regime. In the course of their dirt-digging they found something, and this is their cover story. And once compromised, they had no intention of getting rid of him; he had become far more valuable to the regime.
Those questions aren't of the slightest interest to anyone who has any inkling of the Byzantine labyrinth of Washington intrigue and the workings of the secret police. The interesting question is why did Patraeus signal his reason for leaving? He did not need to do so, and if he had only said he was leaving for personal reasons the regime would almost certainly have been willing to let it go at that. Now he's disgraced himself and harmed his wife and family. He did not need to make them pay that price. The question, again, is WHY?
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.
Then 0zer0 appoints Petraeus to the CIA also in the Spring of 2011. So 0zer0 had to have known that Petraeus was having this affair when he appointed him, or shortly there after.
Petraeus continues to compromise his emails for months after this, with the FBI tracking it all time. I assume this must be in late 2011. Again, 0zer0 had to have known about this.
And 0zer0 didn’t have any problem with any of this in 2011 or even early 2012. The FBI couldn’t figure out why 0zer0 didn’t fire him long before he did.
It is only after Petraeus is scheduled to testify on Benghazi that now 0zer0 is worried about the security breach? Do I have this right?
If so, there is no way to look at this other than to believe that 0zer0 set Petraeus up to use this trump card whenever he needed it, and he needed it after Benghazi. No wonder Petraeus testified to Congress that the video was the cause of the Benghazi fiasco. This just confirms everything I ever thought about 0zer0 and his admin.