CIA Director David Petraeus resigns because of extramarital affair

[Tropicana]

what was the whistle about ..yuh mean him gossip to the congressman?

the FBi guy is going to lose his job no question.

Yes im did gossip and carry news. Anway, see the other thread I mi did send you wid somevgo roun come roun carry go bring come dating bizniz.

[Tropicana]

it's obvious that Petraeus had a light work load every day, because how him find time to be corresponding with Kelley almost daily ? my last job we would never email the CEO daily, and if we did, mi sure him wasn't gwine to answer us. we would have to go up the chain of command. I get that they were just friends but still, how and why on gawd's green earth. and even if she was hosting parties, doesn't HE HAVE AN EVENT PLANNER, someone under him () that she could have been coordinating with ????

Who were these parties from and what went on at them.

Kelley, 37, served as a sort of social ambassador for U.S. Central Command, hosting parties for the general when Petraeus was commander there from 2008-10.

Jill Kelley regularly kept in touch with Petraeus when he became commander of the Afghanistan war effort, the two exchanging near-daily emails and instant messages, two of his former staffers said. But those messages were exchanged in accounts that his aides monitored as part of their duties and were not romantic in tone, the staffers said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2122173.html

How does one monitor an instant message?

[Tropicana]

Broadwell isn’t the only biographer of Petraeus’s who has gotten special treatment from him.

His first biographer, former U.S. News and World Reporter Linda Robinson, went to work for Petraeus at U.S. Central Command shortly after publishing her book, ‘Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq.’
Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/revea...6mJ7oqVlkRU.99[/QUOTE]

[Peasie]

How does one monitor an instant message?

Hint: IMs are sent over a server.

[Tropicana]

Hint: IMs are sent over a server.

No they aren't.... are they.

[kia027]

No they aren't.... are they.

data packets going over the web.. transport always backed up

[kia027]

[R_C]

So now there are rumors that Mrs. Kelley (born Jill Khawam) might be a spy. There you have it, hot twin MILFs, one of whom might be undercover, so to speak, four star generals making the sexy talk and a stalker chick. I mean come on guys, can it get any better than this ? The only thing missing is a gay angle (was Elmo getting any e-mails ?) Eff a laff a pop !

[Gen]

they released the 911 tapes yessideh of Jill calling police (reporters all over her lawn maybe) chatting bout "inviolabe" and "diplomatic protection"


sigh

[Blackstar*]

Is now the story getting hot.

It looks like companies of all sorts looking for contracts in Iran and Afghanistan used the Kelleys to gain access to top brass in the military during the soirées...

[kia027]

Is now the story getting hot.

It looks like companies of all sorts looking for contracts in Iran and Afghanistan used the Kelleys to gain access to top brass in the military during the soirées...

Yes the known secret.. den why are the Kelley's in so much debt?

[Blackstar*]

Paula Broadwell, the author who allegedly had an affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus, is suspected of storing significant amounts of military documents, including classified material, at her home, potentially in violation of federal law.

A source familiar with case told ABC News that Broadwell admitted to the FBI she took the documents from secure government buildings. The government demanded that they all be given back, and when federal agents descended on her North Carolina home on Monday night it was a pre-arranged meeting.

Prosecutors are now determining whether to charge Broadwell with a crime, and this morning the FBI and military are poring over the material. The 40-year-old author, who wrote the biography on Gen. Petraeus "All In," is cooperating and the case, which is complicated by the fact that as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Military Reserve she had security clearance to review the documents.

The FBI found classified material on a computer voluntarily handed over by Broadwell earlier in the investigation. Prosecutors will now have to determine how important the classified material is before making a final decision. Authorities could decide to seek disciplinary action against her rather than pursue charges.

Senior FBI officials are expected to brief the House and Senate Intelligence Committees today on their handling of the Petraeus investigation. The officials are expected to lay out how the case was developed and argue that there were no politics involved.

The case is so critical that FBI Director Robert Mueller may attend to defend the bureau, ABC News has learned. Members of Congress have been angry that they were not informed about the case before the story was reported by the media, but FBI officials maintain that their guidelines forbid them from discussing ongoing criminal cases.

Source

[RichD]

Let Alpha Males Like David Petraeus Cheat!

by Michelle Cottle Nov 14, 2012 4:45 AM EST
Sure, David Petraeus had an affair. But can’t we forgive him a little? He’s a hard-core alpha male who’s spent his life serving our country—and we should mind our business, says Michelle Cottle.


First, allow me to make an argument for adultery. Then we’ll run through the qualifiers.
Gen. David Petraeus in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 2011. (Charles Ommanney / Getty Images)
David Petraeus had an affair. Like so many men, he was sloppy about it. He was stupid about it. And, increasingly, it sounds as though the woman he chose to frolic with is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. (Firing off jealous, Jersey Shore-style emails warning another woman to stop flashing her stuff in front of the married dude for whom you are already the Other Woman? Classy. And clever.)





But as the chattering classes gorge themselves on this scandal, a recurring theme keeps popping up. Yeah, Petraeus screwed up, but the guy has spent his life fighting the baddest of bad guys and getting shot at. Can’t we forgive him having a little on the side?

More often than not, it’s women that I’ve heard making this argument. (Perhaps men are more hesitant to voice such a view publicly.) Obviously, not all gals feel this way, and even many of those who do would be loath to admit it. But it’s not hard to grasp the gut-level reasoning at work here.

Unlike, say, some preening, gas-bagging politician who spends half his time expressing moral outrage at the personal shortcomings of his opponents (yes, I’m looking at you, Newt Gingrich), Petraeus is a genuine hero who does the jobs that most of us (and now at you, John Edwards) are too scared to even contemplate. The people willing to do these jobs, to take these risks, tend to be hard-core alpha males, with all of the testosterone poisoning and adrenaline addiction that comes with that. They are what we need them to be, even when that sometimes isn’t what we want them to be.

Am I suggesting we give Big Dogs carte blanche to run wild, bedding every pretty young thing who catches their eye? No. Officially condoning promiscuous behavior at any level of the military would lead to all sorts of unpleasant results.

Neither should we expect their wives to bear this sort of offense with gentle good humor. God knows military spouses have their own burdens to shoulder, and the entire system would swiftly break down if we suggested that they should just suck it up and passively accept that alpha males will be alpha males. If wronged wives like Mrs. Petraeus wants to kick the holy living crap out of their husbands, good for them.

But the rest of us might be better off minding our own business—most definitely including all those yapping dogs in Congress now clamoring to know why they weren’t told about this mess sooner, and when did the FBI know what it knows, and did the election affect the timing of any of this, and yip yip yippety yip.

Until investigators determined that the general had done something naughtier than shagging some four-star-struck chippy, Congress did not need to be told.

I’m sorry, but you don’t need to be an intelligence expert to know that, if you want to keep an investigation confidential until the breadth, depth, and basic merit of certain allegations are established, the last people you should involve are loose-lipped, posturing, crassly political Hill folk. Staff and members tend to leak like cheesecloth, especially if there’s the slightest chance of scoring partisan points or making themselves look important in the process. So until investigators determined that the general had done something naughtier than shagging some four-star-struck chippy, Congress did not need to be told. That way lies madness.

Unless! (Remember how I said we’d eventually come to the qualifiers?) If the FBI ever discovers that national security was in any way compromised by Petraeus’s hot monkey sex with young Paula Broadwell, then the general’s private narcissism becomes very much Congress’s, the president’s, and the public’s business—and possibly a crime. At that point, heads need to roll.

Thus far, however, it looks as though the FBI probed the matter, quickly determined that national security was not at stake, and prepared to leave it at that. Which is where it well might have ended if not for that rogue FBI agent who himself may have had inappropriate designs on Jill Kelley, the woman Broadwell had been kinda cyberstalking. (Forget reality TV; this entire saga has the makings of a great telenovela.) Taken off the case because of his own issues—issues which reportedly also led him to send shirtless photos of himself to Ms. Kelley—the agent went running to Congress, and, well … madness.

In the end, there is no neat and clean answer to dramas like these. Even if he waited until he was out of uniform, Petraeus betrayed the code of honor he had championed so vigorously throughout his military career. He broke faith with his wife and put himself in a position to be distracted, compromised, perhaps even blackmailed. He is a cad, a heel, a pathetic cliché.

He is also a widely respected leader in a dark and dangerous field, in part because of all the ego and adrenaline and testosterone that ultimately brought him crashing down. The man is flawed, but he is also extraordinary.

And does anyone really feel safer now that he has gone?

[mountaingal]

reading some crazy stuff about the role of the khawam sisters, who, depending on whom u read, are almost like double agents. at the very least, it appears the sisters are so closely linked to the us military command as to be in a position to influence decisions.

[RichD]

reading some crazy stuff about the role of the khawam sisters, who, depending on whom u read, are almost like double agents. at the very least, it appears the sisters are so closely linked to the us military command as to be in a position to influence decisions.

big decisions like should they buy 100 F35's? or decision like who is going cater a base dinner?