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Petraeus Affair: Military Can Prosecute Adulterers
Yahoo! NEWS - ABC OTUS News ^ | Nov 12, 2012 | MARTHA RADDATZ

Posted on 11/12/2012 10:34:28 AM PST by the_Watchman

Retired Gen. David Petraeus, who resigned as CIA director last week after admitting an extramarital relationship, could possibly face military prosecution for adultery if officials turn up any evidence to counter his apparent claims that the affair began after he left the military...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adultery; benghazi; cia; notbreakingnews; petraeus; petraus; ucmj; usmilitary
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To: the_Watchman
This will likely keep him silent. He might have resigned rather than take the blame for Benghazi, but this evil administration is still blackmailing him.

Lesson to anyone considering adultery or anything else you would be ashamed of, DON'T DO IT!

61 posted on 11/12/2012 4:29:36 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (christian.bahits.com)
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To: the_Watchman

He’s retired. They won’t call him back to active duty to prosecute him for this. Take that to the bank. Fact. This is total, unmitigated bullshit.


62 posted on 11/12/2012 4:49:56 PM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: the_Watchman
Petraeus Affair: Military Can Prosecute Adulterers

Maybe he was born that way?

/s

63 posted on 11/12/2012 5:35:07 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: Izzy Dunne

See #52

Also, Petraeus wouldn’t pass a polygraph for CIA with that in his background.


64 posted on 11/12/2012 5:40:11 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: the_Watchman

Also, Broadwell is an officer in the Army Reserves. If she was on duty at any time during her trysts with the general, she also can be prosecuted under the UCMJ.


65 posted on 11/12/2012 6:21:01 PM PST by magellan
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To: the_Watchman
Is there *anything* that our Community Organizer-In-Chief won't do to silence Petreaus? Nope...NOTHING!
66 posted on 11/12/2012 6:31:34 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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To: Cyman

“I would recommend a commission be organized, let’s call it the Phallus group. It would include Newt Gingrich,Barney Frank,Eliot Spitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gary Hart, John Edwards with Bill Clinton as chairman.”

And many thousands of military officers and enlisted men...boys will be boys. It has been going on forever!


67 posted on 11/12/2012 7:16:26 PM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: EEGator

If I remember correctly, Generals can be brought back at the needs of the service. He did not resign his commission, he retired.


68 posted on 11/12/2012 7:43:44 PM PST by Vermont Lt (The dude abides.)
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To: the_Watchman

One angle that hasn’t been looked at is, perhaps Patraeus and the gal, faked the affair knowing full well they could be blackmailed.


69 posted on 11/12/2012 8:01:21 PM PST by Robert Lomax
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To: TaraP

True. If he had admitted to a homosexual affair then he would be treated with kid gloves, and those who censured him would be called homophobic.


70 posted on 11/13/2012 3:07:26 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: the_Watchman
The President has gay sex at golf clubs.

That's also adultery.

When does the prosecution start?

71 posted on 11/13/2012 4:34:53 AM PST by agere_contra ("Government creates nothing" - Romney, 2012)
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To: the_Watchman
This article is complete and utter BS. First, there is no charge against adultery. The charge is against conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline or conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentlemen. The specifications (the UCMJ actually has pretty specific requirements for each article on what constitutes a violation) are pretty specific, and normally requires that you have had the affair with someone in your chain of command.

As none of this was known by anyone until an FBI investigation into his personal affairs, it was not prejudicial to good order and discipline nor did it reflect discredit upon the services, actually.

The next problem is that you have to a panel of senior officers would have to vote, after a trial on the evidence to convict. Let me just say that I wouldn't, and i don't know many others who would.

Finally after all of that is what the punishment would be. Discharge from the military would be the usual, but he is already discharged.

This is utter BS.

72 posted on 11/13/2012 6:29:39 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: TaraP

This is where we have arrived, a married officer can be prosecuted for adultery yet homosexuals are free to do everything they can do to wreck military discipline and morale. This is like sending jaywalkers to prison while encouraging drunken driving. I wonder just how long it will be before a “married” homosexual is prosecuted for sex outside of his “marriage”. I suspect the sun will burn out first. Insanity reigns supreme, we now live in the post-civilization, post-reason era.


73 posted on 11/13/2012 7:50:26 AM PST by RipSawyer (Free healthcare is worth FAR LESS than it costs.)
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To: the_Watchman

Adultry is almost never charged at court-martial other than rape cases in which the accused is arguing consent, then it is a fall back charge.


74 posted on 11/13/2012 2:18:47 PM PST by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: NavVet
Adultry is almost never charged at court-martial

"Never say 'never'" --David Axelrod

75 posted on 11/13/2012 2:23:19 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: NavVet

A bunch of posters to this thread have apparently totally missed the point! It doesn’t matter one bit whether a particular charge is usually levied or usually not levied.

What does matter is that there are charges which could be filed by a vindictive regime. This means that veiled threats can be directed at Petraus in order to keep him on the reservation.

Consider the players. We have a “Chicago style” playbook applied to the UCMJ. Don’t you think Panetta is up to dragging Petraus through a very distressing prosecution? If you were Petraus would you be concerned? I’ll guarantee you that if legal action is taken against Petraus the MSM isn’t going to be there claiming incessantly: “It’s only about sex!” like they did for Clinton. Instead they will be throwing rocks to provide Obama cover.

As in chess, the threat of an attack is far more dangerous than the execution of said attack.


76 posted on 11/13/2012 2:48:31 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman

I think conservatives were trying to help him out- and nudge him to resign two weeks before the election.

I get the sense that he was trying to help Obama.

I remember thinking, at the time, that someone needed to step up and resign and face doing the right thing.


77 posted on 11/13/2012 4:53:16 PM PST by Truth2012
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To: the_Watchman
It's just sex, not adultery if you are a rat president!


78 posted on 11/14/2012 12:47:06 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Tagline space for rent to pay for some of my extra taxes the next 4 years!)
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