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Petraeus Reaches Plea Deal Over Giving Classified Data to Lover
NYT ^ | 3/3/2015 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZO

Posted on 03/03/2015 2:55:42 PM PST by mojito

David H. Petraeus, the best-known military commander of his generation, has reached a plea deal with the Justice Department and admitted providing his highly classified journals to a mistress when he was the director of the C.I.A.

Mr. Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, a misdemeanor. He is eligible for up to one year in prison but prosecutors will recommend a sentence of probation for two years and a $40,000 fine.

The plea deal completes a spectacular fall for Mr. Petraeus, a retired four-star general who was once discussed as a possible candidate for vice president or even president. He led the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was the architect of a counterinsurgency strategy that at one time seemed a model for future warfare.

But the deal also ends two years of uncertainty and allows Mr. Petraeus to focus on his lucrative post-government career as a partner in a private equity firm and a worldwide speaker on national security issues. Even while under investigation, he has advised the White House on Iraq and terrorism issues.

The mistress, Paula Broadwell, is a former Army Reserve officer who had an affair with Mr. Petraeus in 2011, when she was interviewing him for a biography, “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: nascarnation
I can understand his circumstance. She’s an attractive and intelligent woman.

She's even more attractive and intelligent in person.

61 posted on 03/04/2015 12:02:15 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

I knew... :-)


62 posted on 03/04/2015 12:32:48 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: mojito

Hopefully your prediction might come true.


63 posted on 03/04/2015 2:37:22 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: centurion316

“Petreaus gave classified documents to someone with a valid security clearance that allowed her access to those documents.”

Need to know applied then and now.

She had no need to know what they discussed.

Having a current Top Secret Sci clearances does not entitle one to everything that is classified.

She and the general knew that.


64 posted on 03/04/2015 2:45:52 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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65 posted on 03/04/2015 2:47:58 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Night Hides Not

“I had men in my platoon fresh out of the ghettoes of Chicago and New York. There was a race riot in my barracks the week before my arrival.

I had no fear about my soldiers, but I was scared to death of losing that CEOI out in the field.”

For those wanting to know what a CEOI was/is:

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66 posted on 03/04/2015 2:51:06 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: Grampa Dave
Thanks Grampa Dave. I had a NATO Top Secret during my tour in Germany, and it reverted to Secret when my tour ended. "Need to know" is a concept foreign to civilians, but we sure thought it was important.

Those CEOI's were only Confidential, but they were career killers if your chain broke out in the field, and it slipped out.

BTW, my grandson knows me as "Opa", German for grandfather.

67 posted on 03/04/2015 2:59:56 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: Night Hides Not

“I had a NATO Top Secret during my tour in Germany, and it reverted to Secret when my tour ended. “Need to know” is a concept foreign to civilians, but we sure thought it was important.”

BOL: There is a nice young manager at the place where have our vehicles serviced. He was telling his help about having a top secret NATO clearance while on active duty with the AF.

In private, I asked him, when he returned to the states, what clearance did he have and if he could get near a crypto site.

He said secret and no.


68 posted on 03/04/2015 3:10:24 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: mojito

A woman sure can make a mess of a man’s life.


69 posted on 03/04/2015 3:13:36 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Grampa Dave
To tell you the unvarnished truth, I don't think I ever saw any "Top Secret" documents. The only reason I got the clearance was to enable entry into the Wing CP at one of the bases I served at, to fulfill the role of Army Liasion Officer.

At the time, there were only two officers in our unit that had it: the Battery Commander and me. Whenever a tac eval occurred, I knew I'd be down in the hole for four days. After two, the zoomies were griping about having to pull 12 hour shifts. lol

My very first time in the hole, I hadn't been there 30 minutes when an NBC input hit. I was in the Eagles' Nest briefing the Wing Cdr on the placement of our weapons systems.

Long story short, the Base Disaster Prep Officer went overboard, calling for an alarm red, where everybody has to put on mask and garments. I spoke up...imagine an Army 2LT amongst 5 AF Colonels and other officers, I got the look like "who the hell is this kid?"

I gave the Wing Cdr 3 reasons for upping the alert status to yellow, i.e. no masks. As he concurred, I saw the NATO Team Chief nodding his head.

For the next 18 months, everytime there was an NBC input, the Wing Commander called for me.

It was a piece of cake. One of my many extra duties was NBC Officer for my unit. It would later get me a week in Oberammergau at the NATO School. If I had the money, I'd retire there.

70 posted on 03/04/2015 3:31:29 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: Grampa Dave

No arguments with your points. However, strap hangers, visiting firemen, politically connected, historians, consultants, etc. are routinely read on, especially at the levels Petreaus operated (based on personal experience). I can’t imagine that that wasn’t done when he was in uniform by his SGS and/or J2. I have no idea what the secret squirrels at CIA do, but the political games are played at an entirely different level over there.

Petreaus, no doubt, stepped out of bounds, but it wasn’t exactly a Sandy Berger stuffing TS documents in his socks kind of a violation.


71 posted on 03/04/2015 3:40:35 PM PST by centurion316
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To: cynwoody

that’s quite the fivehead.


72 posted on 03/04/2015 4:15:13 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: centurion316

I am glad those days for me are long gone for close to 5 decades.

Throw NSA into the mix you mentioned and its 3 military adopted step children for a real difference re games and rules.

However, need to know should be brought back into the game rules at all levels and good compartment rules.


73 posted on 03/04/2015 4:18:49 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: nikos1121; Corey Ohlis; ladyjane

You clearly don’t know who you’re dealing with, with a FReeper audience.

I knew and found Corey’s comment quite amusing.

Many of us know our history quite well, thank you very much.


74 posted on 03/04/2015 4:32:34 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Grampa Dave

Through our long travails, we have reach the same conclusions.

God save our blessed Republic


75 posted on 03/04/2015 4:58:36 PM PST by centurion316
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To: FreedomPoster

I found it profoundly hilarious...:-)


76 posted on 03/05/2015 2:48:03 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: mojito; All

WILL HILLARY CLINTON GET THE DAVID PETRAEUS TREATMENT?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3264443/posts


77 posted on 03/05/2015 6:30:12 AM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: mojito
The politics of this whole thing is weird.

Especially in light of Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal.

These are the questions that I want someone to ask Hillary, preferably under oath.

Identify all of the flunkies in Hillary´s shadow government who went through all of her e-mails to decide what to turn over or who otherwise had access to her e-mail account.

Were each of these people legally authorized to access, read and copy classified information? Or are we to believe that during her entire time as Secretary of State Hillary never sent or received a single e-mail that contained classified information?

Finally, how do you distinguish Hillary´s gross mishandling of classified information from the actions that cost Patraeus his career and for which he has now been convicted? Laws are for the little people?

78 posted on 03/05/2015 8:52:13 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: centurion316

“Through our long travails, we have reach the same conclusions.

God save our blessed Republic!”

The DC area even in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s could easily be addictive and potentially a dangerous place to be, even by accident, if one had a high security clearance.

I decided to pull the plug and leave the contagious cesspool in the early 70’s. My wife had a little problem at first, and she realized that leaving that area was best for us and our family.


79 posted on 03/05/2015 9:54:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: yldstrk

She has that nutty look in her eyes.


80 posted on 03/05/2015 1:47:22 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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