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Topic: CIA director´s downfall
rooted in jealousy |
CIA director´s downfall
rooted in jealousy
CBS News, by Bob Orr
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Posted By:earlybird, 11/11/2012 8:41:41 PM
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| WASHINGTON - Two days after the abrupt resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, more details are emerging about the chain of events that led to his departure. (Snip) Some close to Petraeus say he´s told them the affair with Broadwell began about two months after he took over the Central Intelligence Agency in September 2011, and the affair ended about four months. Friends of Petraeus say he described the trysts with Broadwell as "infrequent," and he said he never pursued her after the affair ended.
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Comments:
The Petraeus-Broadwell "relationship" has a continuously shifting timeline.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
quark, 11/11/2012 8:54:19 PM (No. 9008033)
Wonder why...
Can´t let it get too close to Obama.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mitzi, 11/11/2012 8:55:27 PM (No. 9008035)
We need to make scorecards to keep track of the timeline and players.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 11/11/2012 9:01:25 PM (No. 9008041)
The nation absolutely plastered with articles, deep investigative adventures by intrepid journalists ! Oh, I am so impressed with their newfound intellectual curiosity and touching concern for our national security. Why is it always a dumb Republican that rescues powerful Democrats? They seem to know from the very beginning who they should lure into their tent, who would be "useful." This story being twisted to and fro all for the purpose of taking care of Obama - and protecting Hillary.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ForNow, 11/11/2012 9:01:33 PM (No. 9008042)
Petraeus. Broadwell. Players. A novel co-authored by Henry Fielding and Hunter S. Thompson about 1960s pro football players?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bighambone, 11/11/2012 10:19:17 PM (No. 9008121)
Anytime you have a girlfriend on the side and she thinks that you have another girlfriend on the side you are moving towards sticky wicket territory real fast. Most worldly people know that.
The two women who have been named so far are really interesting, #1 Paula Broadwell (Krantz) 40, is from Bismark, ND, graduated from West Point, is a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Reserve, is married to a doctor (radiologist) has two children, lives at Charlotte, NC and is doctoral candidate at a college in London, England. #2 Jill Kelley (Khawam) 37, is originally from Lebanon and grew up in Philadelphia, PA to where her family immigrated and run a Middle East Restaurant. She may by employed by the US Dept. of State as a liaison officer to the Special Operations Command at McDill AFB, Tampa, FL. Some other media reports say that she is actually an unpaid social liaison person on the base. She is married to a doctor (surgeon) has children and lives in the Tampa area.
This situation has to be embarrassing to some people who may be entirely innocent. Too bad that Mr. Petraeus "outed" himself in the fashion that he did, while he could have said that he was resigning for personal reasons?
He probably recognized that the Obama crew would have immediately blown the whistle on him to try to immunize themselves from charges that they dumped him to keep him from spilling the beans on what really happened in Benghazi 9-11-12 and thereafter in Washington, DC.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Kurto, 11/11/2012 11:23:46 PM (No. 9008163)
There´s plenty of sex all over the internet. So what! His actual downfall is rooted in some knowledge that 0bama doesn´t want him to tell Congress.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
noddy, 11/11/2012 11:46:45 PM (No. 9008176)
Couldn´t resist; had to have; lust won over. And the end result -- you opened yourself up for blackmail. You are the perfect fool Petraeus. You have given Obama and Clinton the excuses they needed to wriggle their way out of the Benghazi cover-up. No wonder they´ve been hanging on to the video story, but that can all change now thanks to your sexual desires. Just because this woman wanted you was no reason to put the United States in danger.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kansas Conservative, 11/12/2012 5:39:36 AM (No. 9008302)
I don´t blame Petraeus for getting a little on the side. His wife is a hideous beast. Compared to that Sherman Tank, Paula Broadwell is much more alluring. Petraeus probably thought "Hey, I am 60 years old...I saved Iraq in 2006 with the surge, I was "the man" in Afghanistan, and now I am CIA director...why am I stuck with this liberal, ugly wife who has the sexual direction of Hillary? I am going to be the Alpha Male and conquer in this space just like I did in the Middle East..."
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