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Operation Sex Under A Desk: The Racy Emails Between CIA Chief David Petraeus And His Biographer ‘Mistress’ That Were Found By The FBI And Forced Him To Quit
- FBI investigation into suspected corruption instead found evidence of an affair between the CIA Director and his biographer, Paula Broadwell
- Confessed to ‘extremely poor judgement’ in cheating on wife of 37 years
- Broadwell is a married mother of two working on military PhD
- First met Petraeus as he visited at Harvard, where she is a researcher
- Obama pays tribute to Petraeus saying he made U.S. ‘safer and stronger’
By Hugo Gye, James Nye, Beth Stebner and Lydia Warren
PUBLISHED:08:25 EST, 10 November 2012| UPDATED:09:27 EST, 10 November 2012
Disgraced former CIA Director David Petraeus exchanged a sexually explicit email about having sex under a desk with his mistress and continued to pursue her by bombarding her with thousands of messages even after she had broken off the affair it has been revealed.
The racy communications between the married four-star general and his lover, Paula Broadwell, were uncovered when the FBI began an investigation after they suspected corruption between the pair.
Instead the FBI found evidence of a potentially compromising affair for America’s top intelligence official which would have been a breach of national security requirements and led to Petraeus’ dramatic resignation yesterday.
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‘Affair’: Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus, pictured, reportedly had an affair that led to his resignation
Petraeus stepped down yesterday after confessing to cheating on his wife of 37 years, Holly – behaviour he explained was ‘unacceptable’ for a senior administration official.
The affair was uncovered after the FBI launched an investigation when American intelligence mistook an email Petraeus had sent to his girlfriend as a reference to corruption.
Sources at the FBI told Newsmax that the investigation of the former CIA boss began in spring of this year and that federal agents pored over his emails from that point and from when he was stationed in Afghanistan from July 4th 2010 to July 18th 2011.
Discovering the affair between his biographer and journalist Paula Broadwell, 40, the FBI continued to intercept email between the pair – discovering messages that include sexually explicit references to such items as sex under a desk.
