Petraeus is not a felon.
The woman he shared documents with was not a journalist. She was an Army intelligence officer with a secret clearance. Hillary had her maid handling her documents, plus a Muslim, plus a child pervert.
We don’t know exactly what was going on there. Petraeus was ready to spill the beans about Benghazi and spilled enough to cause problems. They tried to blackmail him and he stood up and admitted the affair.
A clearance does not give you the legal right to view anything at that security level that you please. It does not give you the right to keep those materials at home. It does not give you a right to fool around with information that you are not working with.
Also, at the time she was a journalist in the broad sense that she had already written a biography about him and was working on a new book.
As for him spilling the beans on Benghazi, he didn’t and wouldn’t. He was one of the creators and fans of the entire policy of smuggling weapons to the Syrian rebel movement. And as for standing up and admitting it, no, he was busted when she went nuclear bimbo on that McDill SOCOM wife Jill Kelly who she though was moving in on her man Petraeus. Then the FBI saw his scam too.
The entire rack of generals and foreign policy wonks from the Bush and Obama era are worthless and need to be skipped over. I didn’t vote for Trump to get a clone of Bush’s foreign policy.