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General Petraeus – Incompetent boob or exit king!

Saturday, November 10, 2012 22:00
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The resignation of David H. Petraeus as CIA director followed an FBI investigation of many months, raising the question of why he was not forced out until after the election.

In his letter of resignation, Petraeus cited an extra-marital affair he had been having. “After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair,” Petraeus said in his letter to President Obama. “Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours.”

Petraeus, who had a distinguished military career, revealed no additional details. However, an FBI source says the investigation began when American intelligence mistook an email Petraeus had sent to his girlfriend as a reference to corruption. Petraeus was commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan from July 4, 2010 until July 18, 2011.

The investigation began last spring, but the FBI then pored over his emails when he was stationed in Afghanistan.

The woman who was having an affair with Petraeus is a journalist who had been writing about him.

Given his top secret clearance and the fact that Petraeus is married, the FBI continued to investigate and intercept Petraeus’ email exchanges with the woman. The emails include sexually explicit references to such items as sex under a desk. 

Such a relationship is a breach of top secret security requirements and could have compromised Petraeus.

At some point after Petraeus was sworn in as CIA director on Sept. 6, 2011, the woman broke up with him. However, Petraeus continued to pursue her, sending her thousands of emails over the last several months, raising even more questions about his judgment.

Neither Petraeus nor the CIA’s Office of Public Affairs had any immediate comment. 

FBI agents on the case expected that Petraeus would be asked to resign immediately rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence secrets to foreign intelligence agencies or criminals. In addition, his pursuit of the woman could have distracted him as the CIA was giving Congress reports on the attack on the Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11.

Read More http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/petraeus-resigns-cia-affair/2012/11/09/id/463573#ixzz2BpcAILoE

Now consider this – we are not referring to a high school gym teacher drooling over a teenage student here. The general was at the helm of the most secretive organization on earth. Did he not know that emails are traceable? He must have known this most basic of all tenets – if you want to keep something secret: DON’T WRITE IT DOWN! Is he incompetent?… a “boob“?

Then there’s option number 2. Since he WAS in charge of the CIA under Obama he would have possibly seen the need for an exit strategy; one that he could pull out of his proverbial hat should the need arise. And now, one week before he would be called to testify about an event which could possibly be cause for articles of impeachment against the president he announces to the world he is resigning over this “affair”. How convenient for all.




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  • I hope is he called back to active duty, court martialed, reduced to second looie, and pensioned off according.
    That would be pay-back for going along with the 9-11 hoax. :twisted:

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