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Yet more security concerns emerge about Paula Broadwell’s access to Petraeus
Washington Post, by Max Fisher
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Posted By:earlybird, 11/11/2012 10:55:46 AM
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| Newly reported information about CIA Director David Petraeus’s alleged affair with Paula Broadwell, the military intelligence officer who also co-wrote a biography of the retired general, has focused more and more on the security risks that their secret relationship may have posed to the famously security-obsessed Central Intelligence Agency.(Snip)Broadwell’s access to Petraeus appears to have been high, perhaps inappropriately so, even before the e-mail threats and FBI investigation. The Associated Press reports that some in the CIA had worried at how freely their director had invited her into his world, and at the spotlight-seeking Broadwell’s care
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Comments: Members of the intelligence community were troubled by her access to Petraeus where "need to know" keeps members from sharing information with spouses.
Broadwell posted on her Facebook page a photo of Petraeus and Angelina Jolie that had been taken in his office where only a CIA photographer is permitted to take photos. Petraeus had given it to Broadwell within hours after it was taken.
"Spotlight-seeking" was my first thought about Broadwell. This had nothing to do with sex from her point of view, though that had to have been a handy way to get what she was after.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
michellewsc2, 11/11/2012 11:00:25 AM (No. 9007038)
The game begins -- the media will make all of this about Paula Broadwell and conveniently letting the real story fall by the waist side.
Can´t believe people are going to fall for this -- again
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Emerson, 11/11/2012 11:02:54 AM (No. 9007042)
Hmmm. And way down at the end this tidbit:
That Petraeus would invite someone into his personal and professional world — especially someone who was well known for being temperamental — without regard for normal security standards would be no small breach.
"well-known for being temperamental"?
Last night I found myself wondering why Mrs. Broadwell was no longer on active duty. One would have thought that someone as "driven" as she said she was would not have worked her way (or whatever) up through the ranks to end up a four-star general. Surely this self-admitted over-achiever would not have thought that beyond her abilities.
So what happened. When and why did she leave the active military? (She is said to have gone from a captain in active service to a lieutenant colonel in the reserve.) Was she "temperamental"?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fire_mission, 11/11/2012 11:05:19 AM (No. 9007050)
The process begins of totally destroying Petraeus. Thus, when he is eventually forced to testify about Benghazi, his credibility will be gone...or he will be blamed for refusing military support to those on the ground as yet another episode of bad judgement.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 11/11/2012 11:08:31 AM (No. 9007059)
The Spy Who Loved Me. Your mission is over...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack, 11/11/2012 11:20:10 AM (No. 9007080)
Broadwell and Petrarus do not worry me as much as the 4 year relationship of Huma and Hillary.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 11/11/2012 11:21:49 AM (No. 9007083)
Qwick - the head of the CIA is going to testify against us. What can we do about it?
Smells like revenge to me.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Shimmer128, 11/11/2012 11:23:36 AM (No. 9007086)
I don´t know if the stories are true about her, but it´s reminding me thus far of Rielle Hunter and John Edwards. The grasping, the forceful woman. Nodding head, yes it is.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/11/2012 11:24:48 AM (No. 9007092)
The concern here is that Obama was given information that could or was used to keep Petraeus quiet. He resigned and made the information publc, so it could not be used.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 11/11/2012 11:33:13 AM (No. 9007108)
There are good and decent people working in the federal civil service, including many of my classmates. And they will remain silent for just so long before they start to come out of the woodwork to tell the dirty stories on President Zero and his minions. That is the self correcting factor in our republic. Expect alot more to come out.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
artsy, 11/11/2012 11:35:44 AM (No. 9007115)
Broadwell is toast? Really? Not economically. How much do you think a publisher will pay Broadwell for this story?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
redtexanontheprairie, 11/11/2012 12:04:03 PM (No. 9007169)
Angelina Jolie.....WTH....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mamafrog, 11/11/2012 12:08:38 PM (No. 9007178)
Angelina Jolie indeed, have to wonder if that is the woman the threatening emails were sent to? If she was, that will come out and this will enter the land of Hollyweird.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jdmii, 11/11/2012 12:10:24 PM (No. 9007184)
But there was not any security concern about slick willie and his string of women or hillary and hers.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 11/11/2012 12:12:31 PM (No. 9007192)
I´m expecting to hear next that she as born/raised in Russia.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mitzi, 11/11/2012 12:13:30 PM (No. 9007196)
Is there a B.O. administration war on women?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zumkopf, 11/11/2012 12:48:51 PM (No. 9007270)
Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder what Angenlina Jolie was doing in the private office of the Director of the CIA? Did AJ have a security clearance? It seems to me Petraeus, like all too many people, has had his head turned by celebrity -- hers, and apparently his own.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bighambone, 11/11/2012 12:48:56 PM (No. 9007271)
Why would Angelina Jolie be in Mr. Petraeus´s private 7th floor office at CIA Headquarters?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ret.TxLeo, 11/11/2012 1:13:17 PM (No. 9007308)
And yet no concerns about Hillary´s right hand Hamas woman? The woman with direst ties to Muslim Brotherhood? Where is that concern? Broadwell´s apparently is a stable as the fem fatale bunny killer and should have never been given access to the General yet it was allowed? Set up? Wonder what her background is? Somewhere in her past a tie to deadfish? Axle dud? Something definitely stinks like a dead fish....in this whole mess...again when did treason and murder trump adultery and stupidity...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
kono, 11/11/2012 1:52:15 PM (No. 9007367)
By the time the distraction of this lurid story is permitted to blow over by the mainstream media, nobody will be able to figure out where they hid the Benghazi scandal.
The news media deserve nothing but contempt for their habit of manipulating coverage/non-coverage of stories as a way of misleading viewers and readers. I´m not ready to throw out Freedom of the Press -- but this cabal of propagandists are really pushing it...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
HotRodLincoln, 11/11/2012 2:20:55 PM (No. 9007411)
Something "stinks like a dead fish"? Really #18?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ret.TxLeo, 11/11/2012 2:51:59 PM (No. 9007464)
I don´t believe in coincidence.....and this seems to be a resignation of coincidence...again not that I condone adultery...I don´t but you didn´t see Clinton resigning due to his pant´s dropping. Have no doubt there is a lot of that going on in this administration now, the adulterous behavior...see anybody else resigning? There is probably something more to the whole stinking mess...and yes I believe there was a threat issued to the General from o´s minions of mayhem....
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas, 11/11/2012 4:03:39 PM (No. 9007590)
I read the article and was going to post after I read the posts and when I got to #3 I saw that my opinion was already stated.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 11/11/2012 5:08:10 PM (No. 9007714)
1) Petraeus pushes back on Obama´s illegal acts.
2) Broadwell assigned to seduce & get evidence for blackmailing the general. Her husband knew and later regretted agreeing to it.
3) Broadwell breaks it off when Petraeus to CIA, as her mission was complete.
4) When FBI involvement questioned, Kelley was inserted to pose as the source for the FBI... o muddy trail to the WH.
Both women are democrats, serving The Won.
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