Mistress Revealed CIA Ops as Petraeus’ Mouthpiece

[Mass]

I dont have a great interest in the story, but I am getting tired about seing people here and there defending Petraeus as the victim of a bad woman that brought him down with her charms and ambition. I have little interest in Broadwell, but he was not a passive spectator in this story. I dont know if she revealed CIA Ops as said here (though I have a lot of respect for Spencer Ackerman), but please, he is a man, not a superman, and she is only a woman, even if she is an ambitious one.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/broadwell-benghazi/

The mistress of now-disgraced CIA Director David Petraeus publicly discussed sensitive and previously unknown details about the assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

In an October 26 alumni symposium at the University of Denver, Paula Broadwell said that the CIA annex at the Benghazi consulate came under assault on Sept. 11 because it had earlier “taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. It’s still being vetted.” (That information was not part of the CIA’s timeline of the Benghazi assault, and Eli Lake of the Daily Beast reports that the CIA has denied any such detention.) “I don’t know if a lot of you have heard this,” Broadwell prefaced her remarks by saying.

It was a surprising disclosure, given the deep classification of the CIA’s detention policies — and the enormous political stakes surrounding the Benghazi assault. But in many ways, it was only natural for Broadwell, given her evolution from Petraeus protegee to biographer to paramour and unofficial spokesperson.
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A friend of Broadwell is skeptical of the emerging meme — one that serves’ Petraeus’ interests — that a maneater brought down a military hero, as if the most famous general of his generation was some sort of helpless boy. Whatever Petraeus did, he was responsible for, as he himself stated in his Friday letter of resignation.
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But not only did Petraeus conduct an affair that could conceivably open up the CIA director to blackmail, he exhibited poor data security, setting up a pseudonymous email account to correspond with his paramour — one that the FBI easily traced back to him using the breadcrumb trails of Gmail metadata. And that indiscretion apparently extended to one of the CIA’s biggest recent controversies. While several officials and Petraeus aides have insisted the affair had nothing to do with Benghazi, Broadwell’s comfort with discussing details of the raid suggests a more complicated connection
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[Wellstone ruled]

1. What the hell is really going on

here? This smells to high hell. Was there a sinister motive by the GOP to blow up the elections? If it walks like a duck and Quacks like a duck,it's a duck. Lots of splannin needed. Why did the GOP go silent after the Issa document dump? It's all there and we missed something big.

[Mass]

2. Thanks for making the point of this article. Of course, the saint general has no responsibility

whatsoever.

[flamingdem]

3. The video of those comments is on youtube

The commentary points to the fact that she is discussing statements made that day on Fox News?
I don't think it's more than that but who knows.

[asjr]

4. I wonder who will write the movie script.