CIA Director David Petraeus resigns because of extramarital affair

[Tropicana]

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Talk about wanting to eat your cake and have it too.

Petraeus hoped affair would stay secret and he could keep his job as CIA director

But some of his closest advisers who served with him during his last command in Iraq said Monday that Petraeus planned to stay in the job even after he acknowledged the affair to the FBI, hoping the episode would never become public. He resigned last week after being told to do so by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. on the day President Obama was reelected.“Obviously, he knew about the relationship for months, he knew about the affair, he was in it, so yes, he was not going to resign,” said Peter Mansoor, a retired Army colonel and Petraeus’s executive officer during the Iraq “surge,” who spoke Monday with the former general for about half an hour. “But once he knew it was going to go public, he thought that resigning was the right thing to do. There is no way it would have remained private.”

Steven Boylan, who served as Petraeus’s public affairs officer during that same 2007-2008 period in Iraq, said the retired four-star general “felt he had to [resign] once he knew it would be made public. He didn’t feel he could lead the organization with this being out there.”

A more detailed timeline of the events that upended the career of one of the nation’s most accomplished military officers emerged from interviews with former Petraeus advisers, people close to Broadwell, law enforcement officials, and people close to Petraeus family friend Jill Kelley, who received harassing e-mails from Broadwell that triggered the FBI investigation and exposed the affair.

The new information shows that Petraeus told Broadwell last summer to stop sending the harassing e-mails after Kelley told him about them. Law enforcement officials said the e-mails indicated that Broadwell was jealous of Kelley’s friendship with Petraeus. His warning came about the same time Petraeus ended the affair with Broadwell.

In an interview on Monday, Kelley’s brother said his sister, a volunteer military liaison in Tampa who is friends with Petraeus and his wife of 38 years, Holly, had no idea that her complaint to the FBI would lead to the end of Petraeus’s career.

There are still unanswered questions about the sequence of events. Over the weekend, Kelley hired Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell and Broadwell hired longtime Washington defense lawyer Robert F. Muse. Attempts to reach Broadwell have been unsuccessful and Muse declined to comment. Petraeus has responded to inquiries only through associates. A spokeswoman for the Kelley family asked for privacy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/petraeus-told-biographer-to-stop-harassing-family-friend-officials-say/2012/11/12/6ccb325c-2d00-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_story.html

[Tropicana]

I am confused.

He found out the woman was barking mad and dropped her behind last year so why is this now coming out as an issue? Did it take a full year for the FBI to complete its investigation?

Something like that would never have remained quiet for so long and in places like Italy, France and, yes Jamaica, a man would never be asked to resign because he was having an affair.


What I would like to know is was he rooksin the other womand...Kelley...and was she a blonde?

[Gen]

the other woman's picture is all over the internet
no she is not blonde, but has a twin sister.

[Tropicana]

I googled her 2 days ago but only found the other woman with the same name. Let me try again.

[Tropicana]

Ah.. I was spelling Kelly without the "e"

[Tropicana]

These people are behaving worse that juniour high childrend:

Breaking News: Shirtless FBI Agent is Why This Story has Come to the Four

A federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors' concerns that he was personally involved in the case, according to officials familiar with the probe.

After being blocked from the case, the agent continued to press the matter, relaying his concerns to a member of Congress, the officials said.


New details about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation handled the case suggest that even as the bureau delved into Mr. Petraeus's personal life, the agency had to address conduct by its own agent—who allegedly sent shirtless photos of himself to a woman involved in the case prior to the investigation.


FBI officials declined to identify the agent, so he couldn't be reached to give his side of the story. The agent is now under investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility, the internal-affairs arm of the FBI, according to two officials familiar with the matter.


The revelations address how the investigation first began and ultimately led to Mr. Petraeus's downfall as director of the CIA. The new developments also raise questions about the role played by the FBI and the adequacy of notification to administration and congressional leaders about the scandal.


The FBI agent who started the case was a friend of Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who received harassing, anonymous emails that led to the probe, according to officials. Ms. Kelley, a volunteer who organizes social events for military personnel in the Tampa area, complained in May about the emails to a friend who is an FBI agent. That agent referred it to a cyber crimes unit, which opened an investigation.


However, supervisors soon became concerned that the initial agent might have grown obsessed with the matter, and prohibited him from any role in the investigation, according to the officials.

One official said the agent in question sent shirtless photos to Ms. Kelley well before the email investigation began, and FBI officials only became aware of them some time later. Eventually, supervisors told the agent he was to have nothing to do with the case, though he never had a formal role in the investigation, the official said.

The agent, after being barred from the case, contacted a member of Congress, Washington Republican David Reichert, because he was concerned senior FBI officials were going to sweep the matter under the rug, the officials said. That information was relayed to top congressional officials, who notified FBI headquarters in Washington.


By that point, FBI agents had determined the harassing emails had been sent by Paula Broadwell, who had written a biography of Mr. Petraeus's military command.


Investigators had also determined that Ms. Broadwell had been having an affair with Mr. Petraeus, and that the emails suggested Ms. Broadwell was suspicious of Ms. Kelley's attention to Mr. Petraeus, officials said.


The accusatory emails, according to officials, were sent anonymously to an account shared by Ms. Kelley and her husband. Ms. Broadwell allegedly used a variety of email addresses to send the harassing messages to Ms. Kelley, officials said.


One asked if Ms. Kelley's husband was aware of her actions, according to officials. In another, the anonymous writer claimed to have watched Ms. Kelley touching "him'' provocatively underneath a table, the officials said.


The message was referring to Mr. Petraeus, but that wasn't clear at the time, officials said. A lawyer for Ms. Kelley didn't respond to messages Monday seeking comment on the anonymous emails or on the alleged emails from the FBI agent. A lawyer for Ms. Broadwell also didn't respond. Neither woman has replied to requests to speak about the matter.


By then, what began as a relatively simple cyberstalking case had ballooned into a national security investigation. Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell, both of them married, had set up private Gmail accounts to contact each other, according to several officials familiar with the investigation. The FBI at one point was concerned the CIA director's email had been accessed by outsiders.


After agents interviewed Ms. Broadwell, she let them examine her computer, where they found copies of classified documents, according to the officials. Both Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell denied that he had given her the documents, and FBI officials eventually concluded they had no evidence to suggest otherwise.


Even as the probe of the relationship between Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell intensified in late summer and early fall, authorities were able to eventually rule out a security breach, though intelligence officials became concerned Mr. Petraeus had left himself exposed to possible blackmail, according to officials.


On Monday night, reporters watching Ms. Broadwell's home in Charlotte, N.C., saw federal agents conduct what appeared to be a search. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed agents were at the home but declined to say what they were doing.


A day after the Nov. 6 election, intelligence officials presented their findings to the White House. Mr. Petraeus met with White House officials last Thursday and announced his resignation the following day.

Unbelievable!!

[Tropicana]

In a new, strange twist to the ongoing Petraeus scandal, it turns out the FBI agent who started the investigation sent topless photos of himself to Jill Kelley, Petraeus's alleged other other woman. The agent in question was apparently a friend of Kelley's and the person she turned turned to after she received the "threatening" emails from Paula Broadwell, Petraeus's first mistress.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the agent then referred the case to a cyber crimes unit, which began an investigation. That wasn't enough for the agent, who reportedly grew "obsessed" with the case—so much so that he sent shirtless photos of himself to Kelley. The agent was eventually banned from the case by his superiors. But that didn't stop him. He soon notified a member of Congress, Washington representative David Reichert, because he feared the case would be ignored. The information was then relayed to FBI headquarters in Washington, DC.
So that's one part of the craziness.
The WSJ reports that the emails, which the FBI quickly traced to several accounts owned by Broadwell, were sent to an account shared by Kelley and her husband. But what did the emails say?
From the WSJ:

One asked if Ms. Kelley's husband was aware of her actions, according to officials. In another, the anonymous writer claimed to have watched Ms. Kelley touching "him'' provocatively underneath a table, the officials said.

But the Daily Beast has a different take. According to their source, the emails were more like "cat-fight stuff."

"More like, ‘Who do you think you are? … You parade around the base … You need to take it down a notch,'" according to the source, who was until recently at the highest levels of the intelligence community and prefers not to be identified by name.

The Daily Beast's source also mentioned that the FBI agents were initially skeptical that the case should even be pursued.

"What does this mean? There's no threat there. This is against the law?" the agents asked themselves by the source's account.
At most the messages were harassing. The cyber squad had to consult the statute books in its effort to determine whether there was adequate legal cause to open a case.
"It was a close call," the source says.

The Beast's Michael Daly has some excellent analysis as to why Broadwell was sending the harassing emails to Kelley:

The besotted Broadwell may have viewed the curvaceous Kelley as a threat. Broadwell may be able to run a six-minute mile with Petraeus, but Kelley looks like a woman who lets the guys do all the running-and in her direction.

One more time: "Broadwell may be able to run a six-minute mile with Petraeus, but Kelley looks like a woman who lets the guys do all the running-and in her direction."
He went on, even bringing Kelley's 7-year-old daughter into the mix:

Maybe Broadwell chanced to encounter Kelley on some occasion and felt snubbed. Or Broadwell could have just seen online photos of Petraeus and his wife visiting the mansion that Kelley shares with her doctor husband and three young children. Kelley likely assisted her 7-year-old daughter, Caroline, in posting an online photo album that includes a picture of the girl and her two sisters with Petraeus.
"I was with Ganrl Patrais?' the girl's handwritten caption reads. "He came to my haws."
For Kelley to help post this if she were having an affair with the general would border on the pathological. Bad enough that the news of Kelley's involvement in setting the case in motion broke just in time for reporters to swarm the house during Caroline's seventh birthday party there, complete with bouncy castle.

In conclusion: a woman having an affair with the director of the CIA sent threatening emails to another woman she thought might be having an affair with the same CIA director, and then that woman reported the emails to an FBI agent, who then became obsessed and sent her harassing emails of his own, including some in which he was not wearing a shirt. This is officially some next level ****.

http://gawker.com/5960001/an-fbi-age...-investigation

[Blackstar*]

However, supervisors soon became concerned that the initial agent might have grown obsessed with the matter, and prohibited him from any role in the investigation, according to the officials.

One official said the agent in question sent shirtless photos to Ms. Kelley well before the email investigation began, and FBI officials only became aware of them some time later. Eventually, supervisors told the agent he was to have nothing to do with the case, though he never had a formal role in the investigation, the official said.

The agent, after being barred from the case, contacted a member of Congress, Washington Republican David Reichert, because he was concerned senior FBI officials were going to sweep the matter under the rug, the officials said. That information was relayed to top congressional officials, who notified FBI headquarters in Washington.

Basically, Betray-us lost his job because a Republican-leaning FBI agent hoped to sabotage Pres. Obama's re-election.

With friends like those, who needs enemies?

[Tropicana]

You mean the shirtless guy? Come come now, Petraus has the lion's share of the blame here since he couldn't keep it in his pants.

Now I had an interesting discussion with a couple of guys who blamed believe it or not the wife for all of this. They described her appearance as "brutal". They said that since she had "let herself go" no one can blame Petraus from straying. When they got married she was a hot looking blonde trophy wife.





Curious to know what some of the men on here think about this.

[Wahalla]

Of course the man cheated... He was the head of the CIA... His job was to impose US policy at the will of the President. and this called for Bribery, Burgulary and Buggery!!!! His agents cheated, lied, underminded, spread discent, organised drone raids in AFPAC that blew up weddign parties... provided inteligence that inadvertently killed innocents...

i wonder how many honey traps happened under his watch!!!!


Well this is something the man resigns from his job because he chose to make love to a woman... and that is an issue ???????

But the fact he is the head of an inteligence agency that gahters inteligence that leads to the death of human beings, he was responsible to under mind govermetns and orgainsations that are not in agreement with the united states goverment....

His primary focus was to undermind and interdict the Taliban; but it is strange that he displayed non Taliban behaviour!

Guess the gist of this thread is "make war not love"!!!!

This is so laughable!!!! His job was to cheat! Cant wait for the comedians to get a hold of this one.... I could write an hour comedy sketch.... i imagine Putin must be laughing him self to death!!!!

this is one time that I beleive there is more to the story than the media story....!!!!!!

[R_C]

Come come now, Petraus has the lion's share of the blame here.

Might I point out here that the two women identified so far as having been involved with these married men were married themselves.

Now given that Mrs. Broadwell has not alleged that she was being raped by the General, how does he have "the lion's share of the blame" ?

[Gen]

Gen Allen (involved in investigating the case) also sent hundreds of emails to Kelley ??

what is with people sending naked/half naked pictures of themselves to other peeps ????

[Peasie]

Gen Allen (involved in investigating the case) was the other guy who sent hundreds of emails to Kelley, along with shirtless pictures

what is with people sending naked/half naked pictures of themselves to other peeps ????

And why should we trust these people with our national security?

[Xavier]

This thing has more layers than an onion. It seems Kelly has brought down 2 powerful men (indirectly).

[mountaingal]

Gen Allen (involved in investigating the case) was the other guy who sent hundreds of emails to Kelley, along with shirtless pictures

what is with people sending naked/half naked pictures of themselves to other peeps ????

really? that was him? i thought it was some other guy, an investigator with the FBI...