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FBI probe of Petraeus triggered by e-mail threats from biographer, officials say
WaPo ^ | 11/10/2012 | Sari Horwitz and Greg Miller

Posted on 11/10/2012 12:19:37 PM PST by RoosterRedux

The collapse of the dazzling career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.

The recipient of the e-mails was so frightened that she went to the FBI for protection and help tracking down the sender, according to the officials. The FBI investigation traced the threats to Paula Broadwell, a former military officer and a Petraeus biographer, and uncovered explicit e-mails between Broadwell and Petraeus, the officials said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: broadwell; broadwellemails; broadwellharrassment; cia; navyseals; petraeus; petraeusaffair; threatmatrix; threatmatrixbenghazi
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To: SaraJohnson

She graduated from West Point—not the Naval Academy.


41 posted on 11/10/2012 12:49:41 PM PST by vis a vis
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To: Paladin2

I refard these articles as a little bit of truth (the affair) sprinkled on a crap sandwich.
If Petraeus took the wind out of the blackmail sail, plan B went into effect.
Total character assasination. Petraeus needs to be completely destroyed if/when Congress calls him to testify.


42 posted on 11/10/2012 12:50:00 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: SaraJohnson
"She graduated from the Naval Academy.. "

Was it over when the Germans bombed Peal Harbor?.....

43 posted on 11/10/2012 12:50:58 PM PST by Paladin2 (.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Refard = regard


44 posted on 11/10/2012 12:50:58 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: SaraJohnson

Didn’t she graduate from West Point?


45 posted on 11/10/2012 12:51:27 PM PST by ex-snook (without forgiveness there is no Christianity)
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To: RoosterRedux

Get out the Pop corn.


46 posted on 11/10/2012 12:51:41 PM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

47 posted on 11/10/2012 12:51:47 PM PST by Spunky (Those)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
“Well I guess this is one of those Washington scandals requiring a probing and penetrating analysis of the hole situation.”

From the title of the book, it appears like like the good General was getting “training” on how to get it “all in”.

48 posted on 11/10/2012 12:52:19 PM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Petraeus needs to be completely destroyed if/when Congress calls him to testify.

I am hoping they will grant him immunity from prosecution so he can blow the lid off Benghazi.

49 posted on 11/10/2012 12:52:23 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: RoosterRedux

I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to find out the CIA planted these Bimbos and had him set up for this sting . Once the Fling happened they went into stage 2 ,, the eMails as the evidence needed .


50 posted on 11/10/2012 12:53:06 PM PST by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism is the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: SampleMan
"We now have more reporting from the Socialist Media about how this will affect testimony on Bengahzi, than we have about the deaths at Bengahzi."

The real story of Ben Gahzi is that the Muslim-in-Chief was using the CIA (or vice versa) to arm al-Qaeda.

51 posted on 11/10/2012 12:55:22 PM PST by Paladin2 (.)
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To: cynwoody

That quote says the Justice Dept. notified intelligence on Tuesday. Didn’t say how long Holder sat on the info.


52 posted on 11/10/2012 12:55:30 PM PST by JediJones (Newt Gingrich warned us that the "King of Bain" was unelectable. Did you listen?)
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To: RoosterRedux
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.

This is at the very least 20 emails a day, 7 days a week. When did this man have time to run the CIA, and could he have had anything else at all on his mind except for this woman if he was behaving this way? I wonder how many people in our government are still doing something like this right now. I think the lowest life forms on earth are the people leading our nation.

53 posted on 11/10/2012 12:55:49 PM PST by Reddon
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To: Paladin2

It’s all real Spooky stuff.


54 posted on 11/10/2012 12:56:17 PM PST by Paladin2 (.)
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To: RoosterRedux

This will all blow over by 2016 then Petraeus can run for POTUS.


55 posted on 11/10/2012 12:58:09 PM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: Lionheartusa1
One interesting angle that hasn't gotten a lot of attention is the initial story that she was accessing Petraeus' e-mail account, and the CIA and/or FBI was concerned about a security breach.

I didn't think much of it at the time, but how convenient would it be for someone like Petraeus to toss that kind of story out there as a way of opening up the possibility that ANY e-mail message he sent could have been sent by someone else?'

"I know that e-mail message with the top-secret information about the security situation at the Benghazi compound was sent from my address to a recipient named mohammad@allahakbar.com, but I swear it wasn't me. It must have been someone who hacked into my e-mail account."

56 posted on 11/10/2012 12:58:43 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: Moonman62

I keep telling my son, hot women are dangerous. Find yourself a nice, fluffy chick who’ll happily keep the homefires burning. ;-)

The lower the body fat, the higher the crazy.


57 posted on 11/10/2012 12:59:07 PM PST by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: RoosterRedux
Here
58 posted on 11/10/2012 12:59:15 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Moonman62

,,,, pictuie looks like Hiedi Fleiss .


59 posted on 11/10/2012 12:59:40 PM PST by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism is the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: cynwoody
I think this is either disinformation or just bad data (it conflicts with numerous other reports).

But it is important that stupid old WaPo is venturing into the fray. If they become part of the mob, they will be dragged along even if they didn't originally plan to participate in this story.

60 posted on 11/10/2012 12:59:48 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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