Not sure if or how this fits in, but thought I’d post it.
http://dawn.com/2011/09/06/petraeus-battles-fears-of-cia-militarisation/
Non-military chief of staff
To that end, sources tell Reuters that a long-time CIA insider — not one of Petraeus’ “guys” — has been named as his new chief of staff. One person familiar with the matter identified him as Rodney Snyder, who has previously worked on the White House national security staff. But US officials would not immediately confirm that name.
With Petraeus, there was particular concern that an imported staff would give the military too much influence in a civilian agency that has increasingly assumed paramilitary functions. That concern helped prompt Petraeus to retire and remove his uniform before taking the job.
During his decorated U.S. Army career, Petraeus was known for being followed by an extensive staff of advisers as he moved from one command post to another. He may add new hires after he settles into the job, but U.S. officials said his immediate staff is already intact.
His chief of staff is Rodney Snyder, a CIA analyst who also served as the intelligence chief for the Department of Homeland Security. Michael J. Morell, who served as acting director of the CIA after Panetta stepped down, will resume his deputy role.
http://m.startribune.com/news/?id=129304758&c=y
But Petraeus has insisted he will be serving the president and the policymakers, providing information, but not shaping policy.
And the White House and Petraeus both have taken steps to make peace.
Obama has promised Petraeus regular, weekly access in a capital where face time with the president equals influence.
Petraeus agreed to hire Obama White House veteran, and longtime CIA employee Rodney Snyder to be his chief of staff. Snyder has spent the past few years at the NSC, as a senior official on intelligence and counterterrorism issues.
November 1, 2012
Note: Suzanne Kelly and CNN are important in this story. Per Erin Burnett she was the ONLY television reporter invited to the briefing
The CNN Manipulation of Benghazi Cover Is Getting, Well, Silly…
And now, our fifth story OUTFRONT: Breaking new, new details on the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. An intelligence official this afternoon holding a very rare briefing with reporters to defend the CIA, giving a detailed timeline of events leading up to the attack. And this afternoon,our Suzanne Kelly was the only television reporter invited to the briefing and she’s OUTFRONT tonight.
November 5, 2012
General David Petraeus’s Rules for Living appears.
Author? Paula Broadwell
November 9, 2012
Peirs Morgan Tonight has an interesting exchange bewtween Bob Baer (ex-CIA operative) and Suzanne Kelly
PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT[/URL] (excerpted)
MORGAN: Tonight with breaking and shocking news of General Petraeus' resignation that an affair has cost him his job as the boss of the CIA.
BAER: I've never seen it happen. I've seen the CIA think it has a problem and they go to the FBI and file a crime report saying, look, you know, there's something has happened here, look into this, and there is complete cooperation between the FBI and a the CIA in a criminal investigation.
But the idea the FBI is investigating a CIA director for an extramarital affair is just extraordinary. I have never seen it happen, and it smacks of George Orwell, really. You know --
(snip)
MORGAN: Ostensibly, how big a security risk would that be if that was, indeed, what it was? I mean, it's hard to construct a massive security breach, isn't it?
BAER: It's virtually not. I mean, I could -- you know, I'm not going to, but there are four or five CIA directors I know carrying on extramarital affairs while they were director. The FBI was never brought in. The Office of Security was never brought in. It was ignored, it went away quietly, we'll never know about them. So, this is absolutely extraordinary. I'm telling you, there's more to do than with sex. There's something going on here which I can't explain, and I think we're going to find out very soon.
[Interuption by Suzanne Kelly)
KELLY: I just -- I hate to be so aggressive against Bob, but that was spoken like a true man. I mean, if there were other people who had security clearances at the level of David Petraeus who were sleeping with people outside of their marriage, I would want to know who they were. I would want to make sure they weren't trying to exploit that relationship in any way or that national security secrets were going to make that person vulnerable. I feel like -- to think that's just an affair and pass it off is a little bit --
(snip)
KELLY: ....You cannot have an affair if you are the director of the CIA or the president of the United States because of the quite obvious risk of blackmail or like being the president when particularly in this modern era, you just cannot go there. You cannot have an affair if you are the director of the CIA or the president of the United States because of the quite obvious risk of blackmail or just being held to ransom in some manner by whoever it may be.
BAER: No. No, it's an American citizen. It's different.
KELLY: I know Bob is going to disagree with me on this.
MORGAN: Let Suzanne go first. I'll come back to you, Bob.
KELLY: Yes.
MORGAN: Bob, let Suzanne say something first. I'll come back to you.
KELLY: If somebody has a level of national security like that, they are trusted by the American people to do what's right. That doesn't mean, of course, they're not going to make mistakes in their life, no. But if they're carrying on an affair for an extended period of time and they're using their government's addresses and things like that, which are all accusations at this point, but if any of that turns out to be true, the FBI would have to look into that, right? Wouldn't you want someone to look into that and see if that person were being exploited? The American deserve it.
MORGAN: Bob, if you don't agree, why?
BAER: No, no, no. It's the way it works is when it's found out that the CIA director or whoever it is goes to the president and says, listen, this is going on, it's done very quietly. It never ends up in a political resignation like this. It's all done very quietly.
The above examples are a glimpse of what has been going on under the radar. It is no coincidence Broadwell's article appeared after the intelligence briefing. I don't know if it is a response to the briefing or a response to the coming storm.
Baer knows what is and is not the norm based on his experience in the CIA. He also knows how to read between the lines. Suzanne Kelly did everything in her power to put sex and extra-marital affairs back in the realm of political sins. She is carrying someone's water.
The stench is growing