Petraeus shocked at girlfriend's emails to friend

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ex-CIA director David Petraeus has told friends he was shocked to find that his biographer and girlfriend, Paula Broadwell, was suspected of sending anonymous, threatening emails to a Petraeus friend she saw as a romantic rival.

A close Petraeus associate said Monday that FBI investigators told Petraeus that Broadwell sent anonymous emails to Jill Kelley, a Petraeus family friend from his time at Central Command in Tampa, warning her to stay away from him. The Petraeus associate spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential conversations with Petraeus. The CIA director resigned last week after confessing to the affair.

Petraeus was not shown the emails, but was told the tone and content seemed threatening to Kelley, prompting her to report them, the close Petraeus associate said. That triggered the investigation that led the FBI to Broadwell and evidence of her affair with Petraeus.

The affair began in 2011, two months after he became CIA director, a friend and former top aide said Monday. The case has sparked an uproar in Congress over FBI investigative tactics and complaints by lawmakers they weren't told soon enough about the probe rocking the intelligence and law enforcement establishment.

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In this Feb. 1, 2009 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus, commander U.S. Central Command, left, stands with his wife Holly before the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers in Tampa, Fla. Gen. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

[geek tragedy]

1. Rule #1: Don't hook up with anyone crazier than you.

Rule #2: Don't cheat on your spouse or significant other.

Rule #3: Review rules 1 and 2.

[underthematrix]

2. Funny but oh so true

[msanthrope]

17. No--you forgot the most important rule--don't cheat on your crazy mistress. nt

[tabasco]

3. Shocked I tells ya!

[hlthe2b]

7. That orangutan is infinitely smarter than anyone involved

and he speaks for me.

[KamaAina]

4. "How could he betray us?"

[Kaleva]

5. Article doesn't say if he was shocked by how he allowed himself to cheat on his wife.

[colorado_ufo]

6. Reminds me of the woman astronaut

who fell in love with another astronaut and blew her whole career, marriage, and family - even racing to Florida (?) wearing a diaper, so she would not have to stop, in order to beat her rival there. I think she even confronted the rival at the airport with intent to do her bodily harm. And this crazy astronaut girl had like - what? - four children herself? She was another one who seemed to be able to do anything and achieve anything and was athletic and scientifically brilliant.

I think when these overachieving women go into heat over a guy, they seem to suddenly develop the female equivalent of too much testosterone.

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned . . ."

[eggplant]

8. Not real clear how gender enters into this.

You could say exactly the same thing with the genders reversed.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. And when you reverse the geneder

more people tend to wind up dead.

[Poll_Blind]

9. "I just cheat on my wife with strangers- I mean, I can't vouch for these people!" nt

PB

[Marie Marie]

11. You mean he never vetted the vagina?

I mean with all this Republican talk about vaginas and the tricky things they can do, you'd think he would have been a little more careful. And we put this man in charge of the CIA?

[Iggy]

14. Hah Hahhh!!

Dear General:

You obv missed the clue-- a married woman with children willing to screw around is likely to be at least slightly mentally OFF;.. at the worst she's a full blown psychopath who will now make your life a living Hell..

FAIL.

[maindawg]

10. this thing is huge

it seems like betryus is a horndog who got caught because his GF was jealous.But thats not what happened. His GF was involved in some kind of a scheme all along with turdblossom.
I enjoyed the entire election. I knew miittens was an empty suit, buy I was a little worried. What a show they put on! and now all this to? wow, it looks like turdblossom was involved in the nengazi event! this is just too good to be true.

[kalli007]

19. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!!!

Please forgive me I could not resist!!!!!!!!

[politicaljunkie41910]

13. Link to article does not work for me.

[tblue37]

15. Your post says, "FULL story at link. "--but there is NO link! nt

[aletier_v]

16. sounding like a BDSM thing

i wonder id the UodD speech was supposed to scare him.

yeah, you're not dumping me, baby
or I bring your career down

[HooptieWagon]

18. She pretty well killed her career.

And possibly her marriage. Perhaps she can be a high-priced prostitute or Fox Analyst... but I'm being redundant.

[aletier_v]

21. watch that Madonna movie.

the danger is psrt of the thrill.

for me, it would explain the UofD speech, the possessive emails and why he resigned. if she was forcing back into a high-risk affair...

at first i didnt think she'd be so reckless but damn, i was in a similar relationship.

[antigone382]

22. I believe that is actually Jill Kelley, the friend who received threatening e-mails.

Not Paula Broadwell.

[Monk06]

23. To paraphrase Louis CK, "Look in the mirror and ask yourself, 'If I wasn't a general would this

woman fuck me?' "