[RoosterRedux]

It was an anonymous gmail account that Petraeus and Broadwell shared access to (i.e. the passwords of).

That way they could write and share email "drafts" without ever having to send them (and expose them).

Petraeus would write and save a draft without sending it...Broadwell would read the draft intended for her and delete it and write her own draft for P4.

But then Broadwell screwed up by sending a real email to Jill Kelley.

[classified]

“But then Broadwell screwed up by sending a real email to Jill Kelley” >p>

So Broadwell accidently sent a response to Kelley using that same account that she and Petraeus were using incognito and the FBI discovered their identities by monitoring the account? The FBI simply monitored it until more emails began on the account and then discovered that one of the persons using this account just happened to be the CIA director, Petraeus, right?

[marron]

Thanks. I find it hard to keep track of the details sometimes. And occasionally I find myself going down the wrong rabbit trail; I can usually count on my FR friends to reel me back in.

[kabumpo]

I had been wondering about all that, so thanks for explaining it. It seems very clever - but if was all anonymous, like mildred@gmail.com, how could anything be proved as to who wrote and read what?

[Nita Nupress]

Did you read that somewhere in a news source? Cause I was speculating that earlier today, so I just didn’t want us to be basing that on my prior speculation. I’m confused enough already!