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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Before folks go all conspiracy theory....remember that sometimes an affair is just that. He would be the first high ranking officer to stray while he was away?
He just forgot to leave it on the field.
The broad can well write my biography any time, mister!
maybe she is on the Chicago payroll
If true, that as a private citizen he has to clear testimony with the CIA first, then he should have resigned after his testimony.
Now I wonder how it was that Slate was able to report this so quickly?
I believe this is the case.
And the point of the resignation would be to do so before being asked to testify, for the purpose of inhibiting testimony. At least going by this theory.
We’ll see.
I was a school counselor and went to a state convention and one night a fellow wanted me to go with him for that kind of activity. I told him sure, if you agree in writing to continue to pay for my son's schooling at Rice University and keep me in the style to which I am accustomed. He said he couldn't afford to do that, and he left. Affairs have consequences and this fellow didn't measure up. I had a wonderful husband and no one could be better than he was to me. That fellow didn't have a chance.
Did anyone find it odd that he asked for “permission” to resign? Is that normal?
Or maybe a threat was intoned to him first like how to testify and he asked can I resign instead.
MasonGal, I know, I know Barone is a big one but after Tuesday the pit of my stomach has felt like it did back during summer when Justice Roberts (supposed to be one of ours) kicked me in the stomach with that frigging healthcare vote and then the little toad slinks off to teach for the summer in Malta. I will never get over that vote or Tuesday’s. I actually felt like I had been you know “molested or raped” just used and dirty. I cried most of the night and Wednesday I felt like throwing up. My husband kept walking into my office, asking me are you sick?That knot in the pit of my stomach is still there tonight. I won’t ever forget what they’ve done. I only hope I will be able to find where to channel all this !@#$%^& rage.
They could have just asked the Israelis and bypassed the FBI investigation.
This is scary, the useful idiot that is Betray Us has been eaten, If I were an Obama “Useful Idiot” I would be shitting bricks right now...
FBI clue number one: “ - - - biographer who was embedded with him - - - . “
Obama is going “Stalin”.
He's still a Clinton butt boy. I saw that in the 2008 election. He was definitely working for Hillary.
First thing Hillary will do is get as much dirt on someone as she can.
The intel community follows this site, and with as much down time as it's had lately, someone here has something right about Libya.
You can always tell who the intel bunch is by how much they write to say very little.
They will write a whole paragraph and still not say what a normal person can say in a sentence. Too ignorant to get away from the govt speak.
Fox news said something about blackmail. I wonder if the White House knew about this before the election and was pressuring him to wait till after the election forcing him to stick to the videotape story. /Tin Foil Hat
LOL
This whole affair bring to mind my wish that some insider would spill all the beans about everything.
And I mean EVERYTHING.
LOL
This whole affair bring to mind my wish that some insider would spill all the beans about everything.
And I mean EVERYTHING.
Sorry for the double post, ya’ll
Chicago politics comes to America.
Well you can bet your hat and the house cat that Hillathe Hun has all those beans on her coffee table where she keeps everything else, FBI files, ashtrays, Bill’s cue balls..... and at the designated time (to maximize fallout) she will dust that coffee table. It will be like the Christening scene from the Godfather. Dont’ forget she still owes Panetta for backing odumbo during the primary. She’s saving up something special for the Bamster.
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