The focus on CIA Director David Petraeus’s resignation – which he declared was because of an extra-marital affair he had – has turned to the access that his mistress had to his personal email account.
The FBI investigation that eventually uncovered the affair began because associates of Petraeus had received “anonymous harassing emails” that were then traced to his mistress, Paula Broadwell, the author of a biography on Petraeus.
”It didn’t start with Petraeus, but in the course of the investigation they stumbled across him,’’ according to a congressional official.
Petraeus is almost universally thought of among the political and media establishment as a stand-up guy, an American hero. But his supposed integrity – the kind not associated with running drone programs that kill innocents abroad or heading a lawless, covert, para-military army – was apparently not deep enough to refrain from letting an affair potentially compromise US security.
“If Petraeus allowed his Gmail security to be compromised even slightly,” writes Max Fisher at the Washington Post, “by widening access, sharing passwords or logging in from multiple addresses, it would have brought foreign spy agencies that much closer to a treasure trove of information.”
Who is the mistress? What connections does she have? Is this a 'honey trap'?
Could it have been that from their first meeting at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (if that really was their first meeting)? Oddly enough, the Kennedy School also had a real Russian sleeper spy among its students, a man who, using the identity of a Canadian who died at birth, graduated with this identity from Harvard in 2000. He was one of ten sleeper spies in the US most of them in Cambridge, in Moscow-ordered marriages with real children who had no clue. They were deported only a few years ago.
I surmise that Paula Dean Kranz Broadwell (who is the daugher of a mother named Nadene – hence "Dean") may be working for some other country than Russia, if she is a foreign agent. It seems that all by himself, Petraeus was a neo-con and he wanted to go to war with Iran. Or perhaps, as in Three Days of the Condor, she's from an internal group, like the CIA within the CIA.
Funny, she gave some sort of interview in her hometown of Bismarck in which she told people she wanted to work the black op side. And heaven knows, there's been a lot of development along that line, as we fawningly attempt to emulate Israel, which has such hot, tennis-playing hit women operating in 5-star hotels in glamorous places, to rub out those who are an "existential threat." The Angelina Jolie character in Salt – gosh, I wonder if Angie is the person who got all those insulting emails and who began to fear that someone had anger management issues when jealousy reared its head.
As must be evident, I have broken out the popcorn. This is better than most movies.
Hmmm
Clearly this women should be immediately picked up by the military and tortured in order to find out if she is a spy, how much so knows and who she told it to. I mean after all we sent the military to torture whistleblowers and we kill women and children every week with drones. Why shouldn't this women be tortured. For that matter shouldn't the General be tortured as well. I mean for the security of the Homeland and all…..
For one thing she isn't Arabic to be tortured or to be
Marked as terrorist and I'm sure that the big Z is Behind
This that's why no one is making a big fuss out of it,
Few days it will be old news.
Not to mention that he takes to the grave whatever it is that he knows and they're trying to keep from coming out. I'm sure he's leaving with all kinds of perks that will make it possible for him to live on the lap of luxury at taxpayers expense forever after.
Works for me;)
"If Petraeus allowed his Gmail security to be compromised…"
Yea because everyone knows google is the absolutely safest place in the universe and any secrets in a gmail account are as good as locking them up in Fort Knox.
Better question is: why would the head of the CIA have a g-mail account for business purposes? The thing about conspiracies and cover ups is that the more they try to explain, the less sense it makes and the more of the truth it exposes.
Bradley Manning’s breach of national security was about conscience. Petraus’s breach was about his d-ck. Which man is more admirable?
Terrorist! Terrorist! Strip him to his underwear and send him to Gitmo.