FBI probe of Petraeus triggered by e-mail threats from biographer, officials say

WaPo ^ | 11/10/2012 | Sari Horwitz and Greg Miller

[RoosterRedux]

The collapse of the dazzling career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.

The recipient of the e-mails was so frightened that she went to the FBI for protection and help tracking down the sender, according to the officials. The FBI investigation traced the threats to Paula Broadwell, a former military officer and a Petraeus biographer, and uncovered explicit e-mails between Broadwell and Petraeus, the officials said.

[vis a vis]

She graduated from West Point—not the Naval Academy.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I refard these articles as a little bit of truth (the affair) sprinkled on a crap sandwich.
If Petraeus took the wind out of the blackmail sail, plan B went into effect.
Total character assasination. Petraeus needs to be completely destroyed if/when Congress calls him to testify.

[Paladin2]

"She graduated from the Naval Academy.. "

Was it over when the Germans bombed Peal Harbor?.....

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Refard = regard

[ex-snook]

Didn’t she graduate from West Point?

[Rappini]

Get out the Pop corn.

[Spunky]

[Gabrial]

“Well I guess this is one of those Washington scandals requiring a probing and penetrating analysis of the hole situation.”

From the title of the book, it appears like like the good General was getting “training” on how to get it “all in”.

[RoosterRedux]

Petraeus needs to be completely destroyed if/when Congress calls him to testify.

I am hoping they will grant him immunity from prosecution so he can blow the lid off Benghazi.

[Lionheartusa1]

I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to find out the CIA planted these Bimbos and had him set up for this sting . Once the Fling happened they went into stage 2 ,, the eMails as the evidence needed .

[Paladin2]

"We now have more reporting from the Socialist Media about how this will affect testimony on Bengahzi, than we have about the deaths at Bengahzi."

The real story of Ben Gahzi is that the Muslim-in-Chief was using the CIA (or vice versa) to arm al-Qaeda.

[JediJones]

That quote says the Justice Dept. notified intelligence on Tuesday. Didn’t say how long Holder sat on the info.

[Reddon]

on Sept. 6, 2011, the woman broke up with him. However, Petraeus continued to pursue her, sending her thousands of emails over the last several months, raising even more questions about his judgment.

This is at the very least 20 emails a day, 7 days a week. When did this man have time to run the CIA, and could he have had anything else at all on his mind except for this woman if he was behaving this way? I wonder how many people in our government are still doing something like this right now. I think the lowest life forms on earth are the people leading our nation.

[Paladin2]

It’s all real Spooky stuff.

[Rappini]

This will all blow over by 2016 then Petraeus can run for POTUS.

[Alberta's Child]

One interesting angle that hasn't gotten a lot of attention is the initial story that she was accessing Petraeus' e-mail account, and the CIA and/or FBI was concerned about a security breach.

I didn't think much of it at the time, but how convenient would it be for someone like Petraeus to toss that kind of story out there as a way of opening up the possibility that ANY e-mail message he sent could have been sent by someone else?'

"I know that e-mail message with the top-secret information about the security situation at the Benghazi compound was sent from my address to a recipient named mohammad@allahakbar.com, but I swear it wasn't me. It must have been someone who hacked into my e-mail account."

[Marie]

I keep telling my son, hot women are dangerous. Find yourself a nice, fluffy chick who’ll happily keep the homefires burning. ;-)

The lower the body fat, the higher the crazy.

[loveliberty2]

Here

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,, pictuie looks like Hiedi Fleiss .

[RoosterRedux]

I think this is either disinformation or just bad data (it conflicts with numerous other reports).

But it is important that stupid old WaPo is venturing into the fray. If they become part of the mob, they will be dragged along even if they didn't originally plan to participate in this story.