Cia director david petraeus submits letter of resignation

[JoeB131]

THou shall not stick thy rod into thy staff!

Clinton did it, David Letterman did it, and they are still adored by lefties.

And I don't have a problem with Petreuas doing it, either.

So what is your point here.

I know how much you Wingnuts hate it when anyone points to Europe as being more sensible, but when Mitterand died, you had his wife in one pew and his mistress in the next pew, and the French just said, "Hey, a man has his needs."

The ironic thing is that we complain when an alpha male acts like an alpha male. Of course, an alpha male like Clinton or Petreus is going to want to chase a lot of tail. They are biologically programmed to do so.

 

[mudwhistle]

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

By Sari Horwitz and Greg Miller, Updated: Saturday, November 10, 5:05 PM

The collapse of the impressive 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 know*ledge 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.


When Petraeus’s name surfaced, FBI investigators were concerned that the CIA director’s personal e-mail account had been hacked and that national security had been threatened. The officials said further investigation, including FBI interviews with Broadwell and Petraeus, led to the discovery that the two were engaged in an affair.

The identity of the woman who received the e-mails was not disclosed, and the nature of her relationship with Petraeus is unknown. The officials said the woman did not work at the CIA and was not Petraeus’s wife, Holly. The law enforcement officials said the e-mails indicated that Broadwell perceived the other woman as a threat to her relationship with Petraeus.

The law enforcement officials did not provide an exact timeline for the investigation, but they said the inquiry started several months ago. They said investigators thought they were dealing with a routine harassment case until some communications were traced to a private e-mail account belonging to Petraeus.

The sexually explicit nature of the communications caused investigators to suspect that someone had broken into Petraeus’s e-mail account, leading to concerns about potential national security breaches, according to the officials. As the investigation proceeded and more evidence emerged, including Broadwell’s role, FBI investigators realized they had uncovered an affair between Petraeus and Broadwell, the officials said.

The e-mails from Broadwell indicated that she thought the other woman was becoming involved with Petraeus, according to the officials. They said the e-mails were “threatening and harassing” but not specific enough to warrant criminal charges.

One of the officials said that the recipient of the e-mails complained to Petraeus about them and that the FBI later obtained e-mails between Petraeus and Broadwell in which they discussed the harassment.

The investigators first interviewed Petraeus about two weeks ago, the officials said. They reviewed the evidence with him but did not suggest that he should resign or that he would be charged with a crime, according to the officials.

One of the officials said Justice Department officials were unclear on what steps to take after they concluded that there would be no charges against the CIA director or Broadwell and that there had been no breach of national security.

“This is a very personal matter, not a matter of intelligence,” the senior U.S. intelligence official said. “There are protocols for this. I would imagine things have to cross a certain threshold before they are reportable.”

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


The only reason the entire situation has come to light at the moment it appears is becaused based on the above sources, a few months ago, Paula Broadwell sent another women some threatening E-mails because she feared this other women was becoming involved with Petraeus. She sent the E-mails under a different name and was careful in what she said so as not to cross a line, but it was enough to scare the "other women" in going to the police/FBI. So essentially Paula is having an affair with Patraeus and got upset that another women might be having an affair with him as well.

In hind site, the smarter course of action would have been to extricate one's self from the affair and return to her family in North Carolina, but surprisingly she decided to double down on the affair and scare the so called "other women" off.

Of course, this is all predicated on the idea that the above sources are accurate. This all seems really hard to believe.

Well, at any rate......for those who have some gray matter in their craniums,.........


........the reason stated was that he was quitting because of an affair. If he didn't want it to become a big deal why did he resign, especially right before he was to testify?

The answer is this is yet another lame excuse by the Obama Administration.


He hasn't even taken his second oath of office and his White House is in turmoil. How many coverups does this make.

Fast & Furious
Solyndra
Election fraud and voter intimidation in Philly
Occupy Wall Street
ACORN
The Arab Spring
Agreements with the Muslim Brotherhood that threaten our national security
Arming of Libyan rebels
The arrest of a political dissident over a video
The Benghazi murders
What led to Benghazi
The coverup of Benghazi


Up next......arming rebels in Syria and the disarming or American citizens

 

[JoeB131]

Well, at any rate......for those who have some gray matter in their craniums,.........


........the reason stated was that he was quitting because of an affair. If he didn't want it to become a big deal why did he resign, especially right before he was to testify?

The answer is this is yet another lame excuse by the Obama Administration.


He hasn't even taken his second oath of office and his White House is in turmoil. How many coverups does this make.


Up next......arming rebels in Syria and the disarming or American citizens

So did you get out of the Army of a psych evaluation... because honestly, your posts keep sounding nuttier by the day.

The sad thing is, Obama getting re-elected means the cases of ODS like this one are just going to get a lot worse. Sad, really.

 

[Katzndogz]

If he was having an affair, it had been going on for a long time and everyone knew it so it never posed a threat to national security. It made no difference to anyone until days before he was to testify.

The really big issue that no one is addressing is why was the FBI investigating the CIA, and who is investigating the FBI? This is so classic of dictatorships. Everyone spies on and investigates everyone else. No one can be completely trusted by the dictator. It's all hidden from the people until it's something that can be used as a benefit by the dictator.

 

[JoeB131]

If he was having an affair, it had been going on for a long time and everyone knew it so it never posed a threat to national security. It made no difference to anyone until days before he was to testify.

The really big issue that no one is addressing is why was the FBI investigating the CIA, and who is investigating the FBI? This is so classic of dictatorships. Everyone spies on and investigates everyone else. No one can be completely trusted by the dictator. It's all hidden from the people until it's something that can be used as a benefit by the dictator.

Let's get real here.

The reason the FBI got involved was because Broadwell was going Fatal Attaction on a third woman, sending her harrassing e-mails and such.

 

[Trajan]

If he was having an affair, it had been going on for a long time and everyone knew it so it never posed a threat to national security. It made no difference to anyone until days before he was to testify.

The really big issue that no one is addressing is why was the FBI investigating the CIA, and who is investigating the FBI? This is so classic of dictatorships. Everyone spies on and investigates everyone else. No one can be completely trusted by the dictator. It's all hidden from the people until it's something that can be used as a benefit by the dictator.

Let's get real here.

The reason the FBI got involved was because Broadwell was going Fatal Attaction on a third woman, sending her harrassing e-mails and such.

thats never been the question, at least for me. they go were an investigation takes them as they should.

but when Petraeus name came up that would shoot straight to the top.

at the point it is discovered that someone of serious heft is involved in an investigation right left whatever, the head of the investigating agency is told, immediately.

Therefore the questions imho are; when did Muller know and who and when did he inform his superiors?


as to how far we have come, as to the morality and media at work in our country-

anyone know who Kay Summersby was?

 

[mudwhistle]

If he was having an affair, it had been going on for a long time and everyone knew it so it never posed a threat to national security. It made no difference to anyone until days before he was to testify.

The really big issue that no one is addressing is why was the FBI investigating the CIA, and who is investigating the FBI? This is so classic of dictatorships. Everyone spies on and investigates everyone else. No one can be completely trusted by the dictator. It's all hidden from the people until it's something that can be used as a benefit by the dictator.

Let's get real here.

The reason the FBI got involved was because Broadwell was going Fatal Attaction on a third woman, sending her harrassing e-mails and such.

thats never been the question, at least for me. they go were an investigation takes them as they should.

but when Petraeus name came up that would shoot straight to the top.

at the point it is discovered that someone of serious heft is involved in an investigation right left whatever, the head of the investigating agency is told, immediately.

Therefore the questions imho are; when did Muller know and who and when did he inform his superiors?


as to how far we have come, as to the morality and media at work in our country-

anyone know who Kay Summersby was?

I think it was rumored she liked Ike.

 

[Ava]

I bet that Mistress was fine too.

She better be if you are going to ruin your marriage.

I just have this feeling he wanted his marriage of 35 years to be over. His wife had begun looking like his mother and they had many years, living apart. "Out of sight, out of mind."

 

[Katzndogz]

If he was having an affair, it had been going on for a long time and everyone knew it so it never posed a threat to national security. It made no difference to anyone until days before he was to testify.

The really big issue that no one is addressing is why was the FBI investigating the CIA, and who is investigating the FBI? This is so classic of dictatorships. Everyone spies on and investigates everyone else. No one can be completely trusted by the dictator. It's all hidden from the people until it's something that can be used as a benefit by the dictator.

Let's get real here.

The reason the FBI got involved was because Broadwell was going Fatal Attaction on a third woman, sending her harrassing e-mails and such.

Then there's no reason why Petreaus can't testify is there?

 

[Freewill]

So let's get this straight.

Clinton lied under oath and no real damage.

HClinton took the blame for Banghanzi and again no real damage.

A US border patrolman is killed with guns sold under and Obama program and again no damage.

But a jealous woman sends threatening emails and that results in the fall of a decorated general? Really? Is that the latest BS we are expected to believe? When in the hell did democrats ever care about someone having an affair, all of a sudden they care? BS.

 

[Sallow]

Obama could easily have made a call to the media and told them not to run the story.

You're so delusional, you actually believe he has that power over ALL media.

If a POTUS could do that, why didn't Clinton just tell the media not to ask about Monica?

Oblamer has more power over MSM than Bubba ever had. You can tell by the way the MSM buried Fast & Furious, Benghazi, and how CBS held back the very statements of Oblamer that would have made him out a liar during the second debate.

No he doesn't.

And none of that stuff was or has been "buried".

If anything it's been conflated to unbelievable proportions.

I wish the MSM had given the same sort of coverage to 9/11 and Iraq.

 

[Ava]

So let's get this straight.

Clinton lied under oath and no real damage.

HClinton took the blame for Banghanzi and again no real damage.

A US border patrolman is killed with guns sold under and Obama program and again no damage.

But a jealous woman sends threatening emails and that results in the fall of a decorated general? Really? Is that the latest BS we are expected to believe? When in the hell did democrats ever care about someone having an affair, all of a sudden they care? BS.

Interesting that Hillary is giving up her job, in January `13, if the rumors are true.

 

[mudwhistle]

If he was having an affair, it had been going on for a long time and everyone knew it so it never posed a threat to national security. It made no difference to anyone until days before he was to testify.

The really big issue that no one is addressing is why was the FBI investigating the CIA, and who is investigating the FBI? This is so classic of dictatorships. Everyone spies on and investigates everyone else. No one can be completely trusted by the dictator. It's all hidden from the people until it's something that can be used as a benefit by the dictator.

Let's get real here.

The reason the FBI got involved was because Broadwell was going Fatal Attaction on a third woman, sending her harrassing e-mails and such.

Then there's no reason why Petreaus can't testify is there?

No.....but then Obama may threaten him into not doing so.

Course nobody will hear about it.


I guess a letter from the IRS or threatening to pull his retirement should do the job.

Then all it takes is nobody in Congress having the balls to subpena him.

 

[mudwhistle]

So let's get this straight.

Clinton lied under oath and no real damage.

HClinton took the blame for Banghanzi and again no real damage.

A US border patrolman is killed with guns sold under and Obama program and again no damage.

But a jealous woman sends threatening emails and that results in the fall of a decorated general? Really? Is that the latest BS we are expected to believe? When in the hell did democrats ever care about someone having an affair, all of a sudden they care? BS.

Interesting that Hillary is giving up her job, in January `13, if the rumors are true.

Nobody wants to be a part of what is yet to come.

 

[Trajan]

You're so delusional, you actually believe he has that power over ALL media.

If a POTUS could do that, why didn't Clinton just tell the media not to ask about Monica?

Oblamer has more power over MSM than Bubba ever had. You can tell by the way the MSM buried Fast & Furious, Benghazi, and how CBS held back the very statements of Oblamer that would have made him out a liar during the second debate.

No he doesn't.

And none of that stuff was or has been "buried".

If anything it's been conflated to unbelievable proportions.

I wish the MSM had given the same sort of coverage to 9/11 and Iraq.

apparently its straight out bias then....


why did cbs wait till oct 24, the day Sandy has become a Category 1 Huricane and it started overwhelming the news, to air what they edited out in his day after interview on 60 Minutes sept., 12 his remarks on Benghazi which is clearly contradictory to the story he told for weeks afterward, suggesting it was a premeditated terror attack, but left his attack on Romney for saying anything about it in the original airing?


and what does this mean, exactly, see my emphasis-

I wish the MSM had given the same sort of coverage to 9/11 and Iraq.

 

[GoneBezerk]

Hillary is trying to get immunity for Libya and Holder for Fast & Furious by quitting and leaving town with the heads held down.

The GOP better not let them slither away without charging them with crimes.

 

[mudwhistle]

You're so delusional, you actually believe he has that power over ALL media.

If a POTUS could do that, why didn't Clinton just tell the media not to ask about Monica?

Oblamer has more power over MSM than Bubba ever had. You can tell by the way the MSM buried Fast & Furious, Benghazi, and how CBS held back the very statements of Oblamer that would have made him out a liar during the second debate.

No he doesn't.

And none of that stuff was or has been "buried".

If anything it's been conflated to unbelievable proportions.

I wish the MSM had given the same sort of coverage to 9/11 and Iraq.

Yeah.....nobody cares if some Rags fly a few jets into some buildings in NYC.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

Congress wants answers from FBI, CIA on Petraeus​

FBI, CIA face questions about Petraeus affair​

By KIMBERLY DOZIER and PETE YOST, Associated Press

November 11, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — The career of David Petraeus, the CIA director and renowned general, was derailed by allegedly vicious emails his paramour sent to another woman. Now the CIA, FBI and White House face questions from Congress about Petraeus' love life and how his emails came under investigation.

Petraeus quit his post Friday after acknowledging an extramarital relationship.

He had been scheduled to appear before congressional intelligence committees on Thursday to testify on what the CIA knew and what it told the White House before, during and after the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

It now falls to the CIA's deputy director, Michael Morell, to answer lawmakers' questions about the attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA base.

But Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the Senate committee, said she hasn't ruled out compelling Petraeus to testify about Benghazi at a later date. "We may well ask" him at some point, she told "Fox News Sunday." ''I think that's up to the committee."

Meanwhile, Morell and the FBI's deputy director, Sean Joyce, also will be asked for answers about who they informed and when in the Petraeus investigation, in meetings with congressional intelligence committee leaders Wednesday, according to a senior intelligence committee aide.

The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, was told by the Justice Department of the Petraeus investigation on election night, and then called Petraeus and urged him to resign, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.

But the FBI did not inform the committees that oversee the CIA until Friday, after the news about Petraeus broke.

FBI officials have explained that the committees weren't informed, one official said, because the matter started as a criminal investigation into harassing emails sent by Petraeus' biographer, Paula Broadwell, a 40-year-old graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and an Army Reserve officer, to another woman.

The identity of the other woman and her connection with Broadwell were not immediately known, but that probe led agents to Broadwell's email, which uncovered the relationship with Petraeus, a 60-year-old retired four-star general, according to an official who spoke to The Associated Press on Saturday.

Concerned that the emails he exchanged with Broadwell raised the possibility of a security breach, the FBI brought the matter up with Petraeus directly, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.

Petraeus decided to quit, though he was breaking no laws by having an affair, officials said.

[excerpt]

Read more:
Congress wants answers from FBI, CIA on Petraeus | CNSNews.com

 

[Sallow]

Oblamer has more power over MSM than Bubba ever had. You can tell by the way the MSM buried Fast & Furious, Benghazi, and how CBS held back the very statements of Oblamer that would have made him out a liar during the second debate.

No he doesn't.

And none of that stuff was or has been "buried".

If anything it's been conflated to unbelievable proportions.

I wish the MSM had given the same sort of coverage to 9/11 and Iraq.

yes it does.


why did cbs wait till oct 24, the day Sandy has become a Category 1 Huricane and it started overwhelming the news, to air what they edited out in his day after interview on 60 Minutes sept., 12 his remarks on Benghazi which is clearly contradictory to the story he told for weeks afterward, suggesting it was a premeditated terror attack, but left his attack on Romney for saying anything about it in the original airing?


and what does this mean, exactly, see my emphasis-

I wish the MSM had given the same sort of coverage to 9/11 and Iraq.

You guys are funny.

Seriously funny.

Most of the world realizes that you guys aren't interested at all in the deaths, the attack or any else for that matter.

All you want is an impeachment.

Each and every bad note is a route for that..be it Solyndra, Fast and Furious or Benghazi.

And it's a very dangerous precedent.

But of course you folks don't give a ****. So long as you get your way.

And you really question why this nation is so polarized?

 

[mudwhistle]

No he doesn't.

And none of that stuff was or has been "buried".

If anything it's been conflated to unbelievable proportions.

I wish the MSM had given the same sort of coverage to 9/11 and Iraq.

yes it does.


why did cbs wait till oct 24, the day Sandy has become a Category 1 Huricane and it started overwhelming the news, to air what they edited out in his day after interview on 60 Minutes sept., 12 his remarks on Benghazi which is clearly contradictory to the story he told for weeks afterward, suggesting it was a premeditated terror attack, but left his attack on Romney for saying anything about it in the original airing?


and what does this mean, exactly, see my emphasis-

I wish the MSM had given the same sort of coverage to 9/11 and Iraq.

You guys are funny.

Seriously funny.

Most of the world realizes that you guys aren't interested at all in the deaths, the attack or any else for that matter.

All you want is an impeachment.

Each and every bad note is a route for that..be it Solyndra, Fast and Furious or Benghazi.

And it's a very dangerous precedent.

But of course you folks don't give a ****. So long as you get your way.

And you really question why this nation is so polarized?

It's more obvious you don't.

But that won't stop you from projecting.......