David Petraeus' former mistress Paula Broadwell Claims He Threw her 'Under the Bus' after their ....

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | December 8, 2016 | Hannah Parry

[tjd1454]

LOL so you as a woman, blame her, while I, as man, blame Petraeus. I guess the old saying applies: It takes two to tango (or tangle, whatever).

I think Petraeus is equally responsible..

On that we can agree.

[Tax-chick]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Sans-Culotte]

I feel about as sorry for her as I do that fat kid who was “fat-shamed” by Santa.

[tjd1454]

I think also that I have been influenced by years living in the Muslim world, where it is taken for granted that women are to blame for any sexual infraction, and the men pretty much get off scot free.

[stylin19a]

thanks. I was wrong in my guess of being charged.

found this. slightly different than a demotion.

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/20/first-on-cnn-paula-broadwell-military-promotion-revoked/

even real news is fake news...cripes....

[Enchante]

I have no double-standard. Neither David Petraeus nor Paula Broadwell should ever be considered for a sensitive or confidential type of position again. They can be forgiven by people in their lives who choose to do so, but neither should be trusted by the wider public or by organizations they may apply to. It is indeed unfortunate that Petraeus gets to rake in millions in a “private equity firm” but that is the choice of the people who own that firm. I would not choose to associate with either of them.

[Simon Foxx]

Don’t have to. I am a former JAG officer.

As far as I am aware, having been out for more than 10 years, the only ways that an officer can drop a rank are the following:

a. Getting a promotion pulled BEFORE pinning on the rank (but in which case she would never have been a “Lt Col”, so it would not have been a demotion) or

b. Being retired in a lower rank due to misconduct at the highest rank held (ie the last rank in which she served honorably was the rank of Major, the affair and misconduct with classified intel occuring when she was a Lt Col);

I suspect that “b” is what happened here, but that is not a “demotion” or a “reduction in rank”. Those can only be meted out to enlisted NCOs, who are thereafter allowed to remain on active duty.

You cannot demote an officer and allow them to remain on active duty; you can only retire them at a rank lower than the higest rank held because of misconduct occuring during the time the higher rank was held. technically this is called being retired “at the highest rank honorably held”, whcih in this gal’s case was aparently the rank of “Major”.

I know I am being technical here, but (channeling Dr McCoy): “I was a JAG, dammit”. ;>)

[Just mythoughts]

I find her without cause to be itching about what she willingly participated. It is not as IF she was NOT fully aware of the ‘rules’. Obviously, her children were NOT a priority to her and that I find inexcusable. That is where I blame her. We are NOT talking about an uneducated, unlearned female.

[stylin19a]

thanks for the lesson !

[Just mythoughts]

I think also that I have been influenced by years living in the Muslim world, where it is taken for granted that women are to blame for any sexual infraction, and the men pretty much get off scot free.

This incident has nothing to do with the Muslim world. Paula was NOT sought out dressed in a burqa. She went after Petraeus in military garb. World of difference.

[usconservative]

What a cunning linguist.

I wonder if he's related to Colonel Lingus?

[thorvaldr]

Lat down with leftist gun grabbers, get up with fleas.

[Yaelle]

Why do people having affairs with married people think they are owed ANYTHING? You were just a cupcake on the table and he was very hungry. You weren’t his FRIEND. If you had been, you might have acknowledged the attraction, and said let’s stop working together, you’re married, this isn’t working. Unless he separated from his wife and officially courted you, you were “the other woman.” Own it.

[lonevoice]

They are both cheats and both showed bad judgement.

Exactly. Both of their spouses have forgiven them, or at least have stayed with them. As for whether either have asked for God's forgiveness, that's not for me to know or judge. Yes, it's one of the Ten Commandments; as is "Keep the sabbath day holy". If any of us can truly say we've never sinned, then by all means he/she should cast the first stone.

[Tonytitan]

Right out of the movie called Disclosure with Michael Douglas and Debbie Demi Moore.

There, fixed it!

[Sacajaweau]

Oh Thanks...

[Albion Wilde]

Uh... he was MARRIED and you were MARRIED, dumbass. What were you expecting, really?

[353FMG]

Why not pick a man with a proven record — John Bolton?

[submarinerswife]

Slut.

[Simon Foxx]

I was correct. Her promotion was pulled before she “pinned on the oak leafs” because of her conduct, and once she lost her security clerance I am guessing that, with 21 years in, she had to put in her retirement papers.

Not a “demotion” because she was never promoted to Lt Col. in the first place. She had been selected for promotion, but the time frame between selection and actually “pinning on” ie assuming the rank can take up to a year, sometimes more due to the backlog and number of authorizations for each rank that cannot be exceeded (ie if you are number 255 on the list, and currently the service only has 254 authorizations available, you will wait until it becomes available through another member retiring or being administratively separated from the service for misconduct or dismissed as part of a court-martial conviction punishment....