Posted on 04/23/2015 11:36:53 AM PDT by Cecily
In a humbling chapter of an exemplary career, David Petraeus – a West Point grad who went on to command U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming the nation’s top spy – pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to sharing classified information.
Under a plea agreement, Petraeus was to be sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler to two years’ probation and a $40,000 fine.
As Kessler moved through the methodical proceedings, Petraeus answered questions in strong voice, one accustomed to addressing troops and congressmen.
Patraeus was sentenced in Charlotte, the city where the security breach was discovered as part of an unrelated 2012 investigation to anonymous and disparaging emails sent to Jill Kelley of Tampa, Fla. She was friends with Petraeus and a social connection to other high-ranking military brass stationed at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base on Florida’s west coast.
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Two things in this life will kill a man. Bad woman, bad whiskey.
Sad, isn’t it? Basic Security Breaching 101, elementary, for a commanding general.
A low for the nation, actually.
'In June 2012, agents searched Broadwell’s Dilworth home and found classified information and other data on her computers that went beyond her security clearance as a major in the Army Reserve.
Court documents say Petraeus shared eight notebooks with Broadwell that he compiled in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors say the books held everything from secret codes and the identities of covert officers, to war strategy and notes from National Security Council meetings. Broadwell kept the books for at least four days beginning in August 2011, prosecutors say. FBI agents seized the books during an April 2013 raid on Petraeus’ home.'
Well, it’s the Clinton’s turn.
Ain’t that the truth!
This is nothing but political payback. Plus the notion that Petreaus may ever be considered as a Presidential contender has to be destroyed by any means available. Does he still have that job at a college? Seems to me the story is not over. Petreaus is still making history now.
Yes but what killed Petraeus was failure to kowtow to Hillary.
Petraeus blew it when he attacked our First Amendment by singling out the Florida preacher who was going to burn the Koran.
One of the best shows on the tube.
Nothing will happen to Hillary. Nothing at all.
No punishment for the good General and hang Bergdahl instead.
Maybe he considers himself to be free to talk, now.
She is ulcerating everywhere and proof of the hands in the cookie jar is the refilling of all the tax forms.
She has done far more wrong then Petraeus or Nixon have ever done.
Two things in this life will kill a man. Bad woman, bad whiskey.
But what a way to go
“anonymous and disparaging emails sent to Jill Kelley of Tampa, Fla. She was friends with Petraeus and a social connection”
Is this (Jill Kelley, Tampa) a reference to the Lebanese-American babe who was also a friend to Petraeus?
Sounds like an episode of the Americans.
One of the best shows on the tube.
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Yes it is..... I was kind of glad to see the NBC version of it ‘fail’.....
Problem with TV, get a decent idea and they clone it enough where you can’t stand any of them.....
On ‘The Americans’, I am ‘amazed’ as to how HE (her to a point) can keep their disguises apart from one another.
Guess when one is programmed to be a robot things like that don’t happen - at the risk of a ‘slow death’.
Sure did leave that show with a legitimate ‘cliff hanger’ or two......
This whole incident smells to high heaven like a trap. Someone should be investigating that.
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