I've posted about Petraeus before but it bears repeating. Let's hear the roars of outrage that this decorated general endangered national security by sharing classified info with his mistress. Let's demand harsher punishment for this lovesick oaf who got away with a slap on the wrist. Let's not pretend this liar betrayed everything he was supposed to stand for and emerged with his reputation intact. Let's hold Betrayus to the same standard we're holding Hillary to. Guess MoveOn had it right after all.
"FBI agents found hundreds of classified documents on Paula Broadwell’s home computers in Charlotte during their investigation into her relationship with then-CIA Director David Petraeus, according to newly unsealed FBI documents obtained by the Observer. More than 300 of those documents were classified as secret, according to a 2013 FBI affidavit accompanying the agency’s request to search Petraeus’ home in Arlington, Va...
The probe uncovered their affair, revealed their mishandling of classified documents and led to Petraeus’ resignation as head of the CIA. Last year, Petraeus pleaded guilty in Charlotte to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling government documents and was fined $100,000. Broadwell, the author of Petraeus’ biography, was never charged. Legal experts say her role as a journalist made any prosecution problematic...
The documents show that when confronted by the FBI, both Broadwell and Petraeus appeared to mislead investigators about their extensive exchange of classified material, most of it involving military and diplomatic operations during Petraeus’ years as commander of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Broadwell claimed to have gotten some of the documents doing research for her book but “was unable to provide specifics as to how she obtained them ...
Broadwell advised that she never received classified information from Petraeus,” the affidavit says. On the contrary, the new documents include details of multiple emails between the two over classified records, including the “black book” diaries and logs Petraeus kept as commander. In one exchange included in the affidavit, Broadwell told Petraeus that certain records he’d shared were “naturally very helpful ... (I want more of them! I know you’re holding back.)”
In June 2011, the affidavit says she expressed excitement at Petraeus’ willingness to share certain files. “(I)’ll protect them. And I’ll protect you,” she wrote.
During the same conversation, Petraeus referred to some files from his time as Iraqi War commander. “Class’d, but I guess I might share!” he told Broadwell.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article82460877.html
"FBI agents found hundreds of classified documents on Paula Broadwell’s home computers in Charlotte during their investigation into her relationship with then-CIA Director David Petraeus, according to newly unsealed FBI documents obtained by the Observer. More than 300 of those documents were classified as secret, according to a 2013 FBI affidavit accompanying the agency’s request to search Petraeus’ home in Arlington, Va...
The probe uncovered their affair, revealed their mishandling of classified documents and led to Petraeus’ resignation as head of the CIA. Last year, Petraeus pleaded guilty in Charlotte to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling government documents and was fined $100,000. Broadwell, the author of Petraeus’ biography, was never charged. Legal experts say her role as a journalist made any prosecution problematic...
The documents show that when confronted by the FBI, both Broadwell and Petraeus appeared to mislead investigators about their extensive exchange of classified material, most of it involving military and diplomatic operations during Petraeus’ years as commander of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Broadwell claimed to have gotten some of the documents doing research for her book but “was unable to provide specifics as to how she obtained them ...
Broadwell advised that she never received classified information from Petraeus,” the affidavit says. On the contrary, the new documents include details of multiple emails between the two over classified records, including the “black book” diaries and logs Petraeus kept as commander. In one exchange included in the affidavit, Broadwell told Petraeus that certain records he’d shared were “naturally very helpful ... (I want more of them! I know you’re holding back.)”
In June 2011, the affidavit says she expressed excitement at Petraeus’ willingness to share certain files. “(I)’ll protect them. And I’ll protect you,” she wrote.
During the same conversation, Petraeus referred to some files from his time as Iraqi War commander. “Class’d, but I guess I might share!” he told Broadwell.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article82460877.html
