David Petraeus resigns as head of CIA due to extra-marital affair

[TargeT]

there were snatches all over Iraq when I was there, one time I saw 6 brits get out of one!

[KiwiElf]

LOL @ ModWiz - Kaplah brother! Nothing like a Kling-on where you don't need one!

Here's what the Lame-stream are alluding to - hmmm no-one implicated from the airforce, [yet]?;

Obama backs Allen over Petraeus sex scandal
AFP Updated November 14, 2012, 8:53 am

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/1...s-sex-scandal/

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama gave his backing to the commander of US forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday after the top general was dragged into the sex scandal that brought down CIA director David Petraeus.

General John Allen was placed under investigation after FBI agents probing email threats sent by Petraeus' mistress stumbled upon a vast trove of "flirtatious" messages Allen sent to another woman at the heart of the scandal.

According to a senior Pentagon official, Allen denies any sexual liaison with the woman, 37-year-old Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, but the "sheer volume" of correspondence could be found to amount to "conduct unbecoming an officer."

Due to face lawmakers this week for a hearing to confirm his promotion to the post of NATO's supreme commander in Europe, Allen will now return to Kabul and remain in charge in Afghanistan until the investigation is over.

"I can tell you that the president thinks very highly of General Allen and of his service to his country, as well as the job he has done in Afghanistan," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

"He has faith in General Allen," he added, referring reporters' questions on the inquiries into both Allen and Petraeus to the Pentagon, the FBI and the Justice Department.

Washington was already reeling from Petraeus' shock resignation when it learned that Allen -- who served with him in Iraq and at US Central Command in Tampa, Florida -- had also been caught up in the scandal.

Petraeus resigned last week when it became clear that his affair with married 40-year-old military reservist Paula Broadwell, a military academic who wrote a fawning biography of the general, would become public.

FBI agents stumbled on the liaison after a complaint from Kelley -- a married Tampa woman and close friend of both Petraeus and Allen -- who told a federal agent that she had received threatening emails.

Investigators traced the mails to Broadwell's account and discovered that she had been in a relationship with Petraeus, despite both being married.

The threatening emails she had sent to Kelley -- who told investigators she did not know Broadwell -- suggest the biographer was jealous of the socialite's rapport with the generals at US Central Command in Florida.

In one, according to the Wall Street Journal, Broadwell claimed she had seen Kelley touching "him" provocatively under the table. It is not clear who "him" was.

It emerged Tuesday that the agents had also discovered that Allen had sent a huge number of mails to Kelley, triggering an investigation into whether he had broken the law or any military regulations during the friendship.

In all, the FBI is investigating between 20,000 to 30,000 pages of Allen's correspondence, a Pentagon official told reporters traveling with US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to Australia.

The Washington Post, citing a senior military official close to Allen, reported that the correspondence included 200 to 300 emails between Kelley and the general.

Petraeus and Broadwell were interviewed separately by investigators in late October and early November and both admitted to the affair.

Petraeus reportedly planned to remain in office and tough it out until last week, when the realization that the scandal was about to go public prompted him to offer Obama his shock resignation.

Petraeus had been due to testify to Congress this week on the September 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, including US ambassador Chris Stevens and two former Navy SEALs working for the CIA.

The attack, which targeted the US consulate and a secret CIA-run annex, raised questions about whether staff were adequately protected as they operated in the chaotic aftermath of last year's Arab Spring uprising.

Now US legislators also want to know why the FBI and the Justice Department did not notify them or the White House sooner about the Petraeus investigation.

The inquiry comes at a sensitive time for Allen and the Pentagon, who are preparing their recommendations to the White House on the political hot button topic of the number of US troops to keep in Afghanistan until 2014.

Petraeus took command of the CIA 14 months ago, retiring from the military after a glittering career that saw him lead the 101st Airborne, the US war in Iraq, its CENTCOM regional command and international forces in Afghanistan.

The retired four-star general, who presided over the 2007 troop "surge" in Iraq, is widely credited with turning the tide of the US war there, though similar efforts have been less successful in Afghanistan.

On Monday, FBI agents searched Broadwell's North Carolina home, removing bags, boxes and pictures, local media reported. The mother of two has not been seen at her home since Petraeus resigned over the affair.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation itself has also come under scrutiny.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI agent Kelley contacted about the threatening emails, a personal acquaintance of hers, brought the matter to the attention of Republican lawmakers.

The agent apparently believed the bureau was not moving aggressively enough with the investigation, suspecting that his superiors were keen to protect the Democratic president from the fallout.

FBI supervisors had earlier barred the agent from any involvement in the case after he became "obsessed" with the matter, the Journal said.

It quoted one official as saying the agent had sent shirtless photos to Kelley well before the email investigation had begun, and said he is currently under investigation by the internal affairs arm of the FBI.

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by Kimberley (here)
That is hysterical SF!!

However I really do not understand your use of the word "vulgar"? Is it the word snatch that you think is "vulgar"? Or the whole "All up in my snatch" line ?

I was just being courteous in case "All Up In My Snatch" did offend anyone......personally I don't find it offensive and occasionally I even find myself involved in some snatch every now and then too.....fortunately my "snatch episodes" do not get the national attention some other people's snatch episodes do.

[Kimberley]

Hahahaha SF & TargeT SF like I said nothing "wrong" in my book about consensual sex :-) And yes isn't it great to not be in the national attention!

[Rocky_Shorz]

and for those of you are wondering where all the spins were coming from, and attacks on Avalon, I told you we're shielded, they're bouncing back...

they had access to whistleblowers...

one of their first calls was to Glenn Beck, he knew weeks before the President did... before the congressman in Washington, referred to Eric Cantor, who kept it quiet...

we have one twin who could be bipolar capable of anything, at the fingertips of National Secrets and whistleblowers... no worries...


naaa must be a coincidence...

[Spiral]

This is well worth watching, the "show notes" are riveting too, this is a way bigger story than a sex scandal, what with all the other "top brass" that have exited stage left in recent times.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cuVvERjVLFk

Published on Nov 13, 2012 by corbettreport

SHOW NOTES AND MP3: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6147

Corbett Report Radio #256

The shockwaves of the Petraeus affair are still being felt in Washington. Predictably, the media focus is on the prurient nation of the scandal, but this is no ordinary sex scandal. Join us tonight on the program as we look at some of the implications of the affair from "access" journalism to blackmail to Benghazi and CIA secret prisons and the question of who will step in to fill his shoes.

[SilentFeathers]

Broadwell seems to be an egotistic nut job (and a big-time security risk)!!! and Petraeus seems to be a complete idiot!!!!

New Video Of Broadwell In Aspen Raises More Questions

The video shows Broadwell making comments in Aspen for the Aspen Institute on July 28 at the Aspen Security Conference. It was simply entitled “Media Panel,” but nobody there had any idea of the story that was to come.

Broadwell spoke of her time with now former CIA Director David Petraeus.

“I was embedded with Gen. Petraeus in Afghanistan, and it was a little confusing to some of the folks there because I am also a military reservist with a top secret FBI clearance and then some,” Broadwell told the audience.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/11/1...ore-questions/

Notice she says that she has "Top secret FBI clearance?"

Perhaps she's a plant? This story gets more bizarre by the second!

[Kimberley]

Yes this as a very bizarre story by the second!!! However fascinating also!!!

[modwiz]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
Broadwell seems to be an egotistic nut job (and a big-time security risk)!!! and Petraeus seems to be a complete idiot!!!!

New Video Of Broadwell In Aspen Raises More Questions

The video shows Broadwell making comments in Aspen for the Aspen Institute on July 28 at the Aspen Security Conference. It was simply entitled “Media Panel,” but nobody there had any idea of the story that was to come.

Broadwell spoke of her time with now former CIA Director David Petraeus.

“I was embedded with Gen. Petraeus in Afghanistan, and it was a little confusing to some of the folks there because I am also a military reservist with a top secret FBI clearance and then some,” Broadwell told the audience.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/11/1...ore-questions/

Notice she says that she has "Top secret FBI clearance?"

Perhaps she's a plant? This story gets more bizarre by the second!

Yes, the name of the plant is Honey Trap, also known as the Penis Fly Trap.

[Taurean]

Nice Marketing job !

The New Battlefield

Petraeus enlisted for Call of Duty cameo

David Petraeus has landed on his feet with a new gig in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

The retired Army general who stepped down as CIA director last week amid a scandal surrounding his extramarital affair pops up in the highly anticipated Activision Blizzard first-person shooter game released on Tuesday.

Halo 4 hits US$220 million on launch day

Microsoft said its Halo 4 video game racked up US$220 million (NZ$269 million) in global sales on its launch day, beating records set by previous instalments of the hit series.

Action-shooter Halo 4, released last Tuesday, is on its way to reaching US$300 million in global sales in its first week, making it the biggest launch in the decade-old Halo franchise's history, the company said.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/ga...-on-launch-day

As they say - Follow the Money !

[Selene]

Well, this whole zoo makes wonderful entertainment, doesn’t it?

Throw some sex and scandal to the MSM – and they’ll hie themselves toward it like a ravenous wolf pack on the scent of a hot bi*ch, toward whatever diversionary bait they’ve been thrown. Never mind the real story – the MSM hounds are baying in heat in search of sex, scandal and ratings. Yes, clicks and ratings. Never mind truth, that’s so-o-o-o-o last century. The only thing that matters now is money….

Meanwhile, We Who Are Officially Mocked continue to search for the actual truth. Good thing none of us actually expect to get rich doing this.

Cheers,

Selene

[modwiz]

Time for some more you will not likely find in the controlled press:

The FBI visited the West Point grad and fast track career girl on Veterans Day Monday evening. Lt. Colonel Broadwell has not been referred to by her reserve Army rank for some reason. It is not an oversight. There has to be a reason.
But she got a little more attention than I am sure she wanted when they began exiting with evidence boxes, and even taking her expensive large Mac monitor. Ouch!! It will be a Veterans Day she will not forget.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/11...or-the-others/

[jackovesk]

post moved to new thread...

[modwiz]

A lot of Gordon Duff's first runs are now happening at the Presstv. Iranian site. I think he gets paid for his articles there if they are allowed to run there first. A few days later they are on VT. I can understand this arrangement. Anyway, here is an article that goes way beyond the headline about the drone invading Iranian airspace. A piece pertaining to the headline:

The issue is not one of a need to gather intelligence, to spy, but violation of sovereignty and more, placing known weapons platforms in violation of airspace, a credible threat.

With the history of the use of drones by the US, thousands of civilians killed by Raptor and Predator drones, Hellfire missiles fired onto funerals and weddings, innocent vehicles and, friendly fire incidents, the reporting of which are always censored, a drone entering airspace is to be accepted as a “bombing attack.”

In fact, the US has established the “right of hot pursuit” and repeatedly misconstrued the use of drones to target suspected militants for assassination using “area munitions” with an extremely high probability of “collateral damage.”

The right claimed by the US is based on the assumption that any person on earth that owns a weapon or is thought to have owned one or who may or may not have met with someone who has been critical of US policy is a “terrorist suspect” and, thus, subject to execution even if that means the destruction of an entire village in the process.

This right, by the US, according to legal opinions submitted by the same two US Attorney Generals aided by “think tank” experts with dual Israeli/American citizenry, also authorized the indeterminate arrest and detention without probable cause of any person on earth, even American citizens, authorized their torture for years and authorized any information given while under torture to be admissible though America’s highest law, the constitution specifically prohibits any acts of “cruel and unusual punishment.”
(Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution - 1787)

A bit of expansion here and why this post is in this thread:

ROGUE MILITARY THEORY

A few weeks ago, one of the top US commanders in the region was found “unfit” and physically “removed” from an aircraft carrier that was actively approaching Iranian waters.

Admiral Gaouette is one of several high ranking US military officers in the region to be summarily dismissed. General Petraeus, CIA Director, resigned this week though the inane ramblings of the conspiratorial “pop culture press” has yet to discover ties to the increasingly heated situation in the Persian Gulf.

Are the other conspiracies being “sold” to the public to hide one far more serious? In America, a top official can be destroyed for loyalty and service as much as for acts of irresponsibility.

Petraeus could well be the victim of his own 2010 report, 82 pages, citing Israel’s destabilizing policies in the region as an impediment to US goals.

Within hours after Petraeus resigns, Israel begins shelling Syria. Is this a coincidence?

The story behind the smoke screen may be one of the biggest in American history. This is a big stay tuned.

Full story here: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11...tion-and-lies/

[ThePythonicCow]

My present theory on these events:

• It's a major conflict between (1) CIA, FBI, Neocons, Zionists, Bush, Clinton, Obama, mercenaries, banksters, ... and (2) career diplomats in the US State Dept and career military under the US Dept of Defense (along with whom else?).
• The CIA is smuggling weapons out of Benghazi into Syria, arming the "terrorists" for the next round of Middle East conflict.
• The CIA (not the US Military) is the main user of drones for "targeted" assassinations, with direct Obama involvement (one of the perks of office Obama enjoys.)
• Deceased Ambassador Christopher Stevens was an "Arabist" .. knowledgeable in the culture, language and ways of Arabs. He apparently was not on board with the continuing provocation of conflict in the Middle East, and/or the weapons smuggling, so he had to go.
• Stevens was killed, by CIA/Zionist directive. The Special Forces soldiers assigned to guard him were collateral damage.
• The US Military wanted to send in support for these soldiers guarding Stevens.
• Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette and General Carter Ham were both fired on the spot for ordering air support into Benghazi. Gaouette was commanding Carrier Strike Group Three at the time. General Ham was head of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) at the time. Gaouette and Ham were both fired as soon as they disobeyed orders from the White House to stand down.
• General Petraeus (even as CIA Directory of Central Intelligence - DCI) wasn't trusted by the CIA, Obama, et al crowd.
• General Petraeus had written in a statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee, made March of 2010 that Israel's interests presented "distinct challenges" to American interests (see here.)
• Petraeus was fired. He was allowed to wait until a couple days after the election, and was allowed to fall on his own (virtual) sword.
• Gordon Duff's (of VeteransToday.com) support of Obama and opposition to the Zionists, which would paint Obama on the (2) US Military side of this major conflict, is disinformation.
• Gordon Duff's lamenting that Obama is tied to the 9/11 mythology of the Bush's and his suggestion that Obama should bust Netanyahu for 9/11 are more disinformation.
• This disinformation of Duff's is a modest part of an ongoing and major propaganda effort to paint Obama in opposition to the Bush, Clinton, CIA, Neocon, Zionist, ... crowd. Obama is no such thing. Or at the least (a) the two figures most linked to the disaster in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Petraeus, are no such thing, (b) the figure most linked with Fast and Furious, Eric Holder, is no such thing, and (c) the figure most linked to the administration’s economic failures, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, is no such thing. All these, Clinton, Petraeus, Holder and Geithner, have left or announced they will leave Obama's administration, since the US Elections, a week ago.
• The several news stories of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supporting Mitt Romney over Obama for US President are more of the same disinformation.

[Taurean]

Petraeus Affair: "This Is About Something Else Entirely, And The Truth Will Come Out"

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=22532

[TargeT]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

“I was embedded with Gen. Petraeus in Afghanistan, and it was a little confusing to some of the folks there because I am also a military reservist with a top secret FBI clearance and then some,” Broadwell told the audience.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/11/1...ore-questions/

Notice she says that she has "Top secret FBI clearance?"

Perhaps she's a plant? This story gets more bizarre by the second!

all of our clearances come from the FBI, that's just the agency that handles the investigation to "clear you".

I also hold an "FBI" top secret clearance (they are not uncommon really)

Posted by modwiz (here)
Time for some more you will not likely find in the controlled press:

The FBI visited the West Point grad and fast track career girl on Veterans Day Monday evening. Lt. Colonel Broadwell has not been referred to by her reserve Army rank for some reason. It is not an oversight. There has to be a reason.
But she got a little more attention than I am sure she wanted when they began exiting with evidence boxes, and even taking her expensive large Mac monitor. Ouch!! It will be a Veterans Day she will not forget.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/11...or-the-others/

it is VERY odd to not be refered to as her rank.. that is a very closely guarded priv. & LTC (Lt. Colonel) is not a rank that you "don't" wear like a badge of pride.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Paul (here)
My present theory on these events:

Kerry Cassidy has posted on her blog, as reported in this thread here, on "THE REAL STORY BEHIND PATRAEUS LINKED TO ATTEMPTED COUP AND BENGHAZI".

What she writes makes good sense to me ... evidently based on better sources and better written, but roughly consistent with my speculations above.

[SilentFeathers]

Links broken Paul...

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
Links broken Paul...

Fixed - thanks