Judging from the picture, I can't really blame David.
Posted on 04/23/2015 1:27:08 PM PDT by xzins
Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced Thursday to two years' probation and fined $100,000 for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.
The sentencing came two months after he agreed to plead guilty to a federal misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material.
The plea agreement carried a possible sentence of up to a year in prison. In court papers, prosecutors recommended two years' probation and a $40,000 fine. But Judge David Kessler increased the fine to "reflect seriousness of the offense." He said Petraeus committed a "grave and uncharacteristic error in judgment." Appearing calm and wearing a business suit, Petraeus made a brief statement before he was sentenced, apologizing "for the pain my actions have caused."
Petraeus attorney Jake Sussman said this was not a case about the public dissemination of classified information, but the wrongful removal of materials. But prosecutor James Melindres said, "This is a serious criminal offense. He was entrusted with the nation's most classified secrets. The defendant betrayed that trust". Melindres says Petraeus compounded that trust by "lying to the FBI."
In a brief statement after the hearing, Petraeus said this marks the end of a two-and-a-half year ordeal, and he just wants to move on. "I now look forward to moving on to the next phase of my life," he said, before walking to a waiting car and leaving. The agreement was filed in federal court in Charlotte, the city where Paula Broadwell, the general's biographer and former lover, lives with her husband and children.
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I think he walks, basically walks, because not only was he set up...but I think he was working against Obama and has enough on him and this administration to make them more than squirm. So the deal was...Probation....the money won’t ever be paid.
If a man will betray his wife, his god, and his own sense of honor; then what stops him from betraying his country?
The problem in America is that we’ve created a cultural belief amongst those on the upper rungs of influence and power that they are never held fully accountable for their actions, in-actions or their incompetence. They have a club where the rules are different for them than for most.
If some crypto clearance E4 had spilled his guts about top secret intelligence to his mistress he would be in prison now or worse. No special probation treatment and fines for him. The only reason Snowden isn’t in prison now is because he is in Russia.
Is anyone else fed up with the double standards that have taken over this country in the name of PC, ethnicity, race, hate crime, gender, LGTB, status, or politics? We must see prosecutions without favoritism and double standards.
undignified? Personal relationships? Well, OK. But this clown broke a really serious rule under which he holds an officer’s commission in the US Military. Banging somebody else’s wife is a clear violation of the UCMJ——but I notice he wasn’t prosecuted for that. He should have lost his commission for it. And remember his wife is the daughter of the West Point Sup. at the time. This is another one of those things that has lost for me a bunch of confidence in our flag officer corp. Sliders, we have a whole crowd of sliders. Baby boomer dipsticks and Gen X halfassed’s.
“I think he walks, basically walks, because not only was he set up...but I think he was working against Obama and has enough on him and this administration to make them more than squirm. So the deal was...Probation....the money won’t ever be paid.”
The crux of the problem is that our country has become immersed with a culture of corruption where everyone in the loop has something on those up and down the ladder, and so no one ever is punished, as in criminally prosecuted and fired. They all carry a get out of jail free card, just as the DEA and SS agents that get wrist slaps instead of fired or sent to federal penitentiary. It is like they know too much.
Judging from the picture, I can't really blame David.
Scooter Libby is evidence that justice isn’t served in America.
Washington Governance is in their own world and is effective only for themselves and where they will fit on the International Stage.... because that is where the revenues, the plans, the agenda’s are all operating now. Our country is simply the means they abuse to get that plan where they want it to be.
It’s not even a matter of corruption anymore....it’s a matter of how each can obtain what they want (think International not local here)...and the race they are having to get there among themselves and other leaders.
People are only their concern as a commodity...nothing more or less...we simply are.
IMO the only way to stop it is stop paying tax’s and let the whole thing fall.....’we’ can re-build this nation.
.....”Judging from the picture, I can’t really blame David”....
Well...if he was really any kind of man as he claims....he could have at least asked his wife if it was ok...and then let the chips fall where they may.
But no...he took the cowards way out.
And Petraeus is Anti First Amendment, he wanted to prosecute that Florida preacher for burning the Koran.
Holly Petraeus is an honorable woman who cares about our service-people. To denigrate her or say her scuzzball of a husband had a right to cheat on her based on her looks alone is beneath what I’d expect of a FReeper.
While I agree w your sentiment, it’s been my experience that FR is filled w people who say hateful things about how a woman looks. Not sure why any conservative Christian would ok infidelity because of how a spouse looks... but that’s just me not having a sense of humor.
Am I really reading what you just said you were writing?
I can.
He swore an oath to this country, and he made an even stronger vow to his wife.
“For better for worse. In sickness and in health. Til death you do part.”
I have great respect for Petraeus capabilities as a general, a planner, and his military capabilities.
But all of that is betrayed and tarnished horribly by the violations that he committed and the most basic trusts he violated.
So his wife of some 30-40 years does not look like a sweet young thing any more?
Bid whoop. Big deal. The man is old enough, mature enough, and has been through enough of life to know that he should never think with the wrong part of his body.
If he was true to his vows, he would love that wife just the same and do the hard work of retaining her love and trust.
So, yes...I blame him for that hurt, that dishonor, that stain he brought to his wife and family on that count. And for the shame and betrayal he brought to his nation.
He is human. We all are. We all make mistakes.
He made several HUGE ones, and had to be caught in them. And so his star fell because of them in a big way...but he was also not held accountable for violating his honor and trust as an officer...as one poster said, that commission should be given up.
I would retain some level of respect for the man if he came forward and owned up to that bald faced violation as an officer. As it is...he has been disgraced for violating the nation’s trust for the information he was entrusted with.
In the end...somehow, the God in Heaven balances the scales. Either we do it by sincerely coming to His Son, repenting, taking His name upon us and having the price paid...or we will pay the price.
But the price will be paid in the end.
Either that or they were afraid he would run for president.
Every one of us falls short of God. Even Peter. Every one of us.
I agree absolutely.
Patraeus and Broadwell are both West Point graduates. West Point has an Honor Code that says, “We will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those among us who do.”
Clearly they both violated that code. And that is no small thing.
He deserves the fine but what exactly is the point of that other than wasting his and a probation officers' time? Probation is for skells who need someone looking over their shoulder so they don't re-offend.
Outed by his gf's bad judgement and inability to restrain her cat-fighting instincts.
You are a disgusting person.
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