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Petraeus reportedly used draft e-mails to converse with mistress
The former CIA director used a trick often used by terrorists and teenagers to make e-mails harder to trace, the Associated Press reports.
In an effort to cover a trail of messages between him and his mistress, former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus reportedly used a tactic favored by terrorists and teenagers -- communicating via draft e-mail.
Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the co-author of Petraeus' biography and the woman he was having an affair with, set up private Gmail accounts in order to communicate, the Associated Press reported today. In addition to creating the e-mails under false identities, Petraeus and Broadwell decided to exchange some messages using the draft function, as an added precaution.
Instead of actually e-mailing each other, they would compose and draft messages but not send them. The other person would then log into the same account and read the drafts. This made those messages harder to trace, and the tactic has been used in the past by terrorists and teenagers, an unnamed law enforcement official told the AP.
Apparently, this trick has been around a while. PBS Frontline mentioned it in a 2005 special on terrorist tricks and counter-measures.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57548733-83/petraeus-reportedly-used-draft-e-mails-to-converse-with-mistress/
tblue
(16,350 posts)He must feel like such a schmuck.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)I wonder what other emails he sent on that account. Was it a private account used 100% for correspondence with his girlfriend, or did he use it for business sometimes.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Used for business, just communicating with her. But that was one report I heard yesterday.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)Kaleva
(36,342 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)How can the top spook not know how to keep a secret?
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)She went off.
That's not technique, that's the human element.
chillfactor
(7,584 posts)I am so sick of hearing about Petraeus ..now I just hit the mute button...
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Military intelligence, indeed!
rocktivity
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)and aliases