Posted on 03/03/2015 2:55:42 PM PST by mojito
David H. Petraeus, the best-known military commander of his generation, has reached a plea deal with the Justice Department and admitted providing his highly classified journals to a mistress when he was the director of the C.I.A.
Mr. Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, a misdemeanor. He is eligible for up to one year in prison but prosecutors will recommend a sentence of probation for two years and a $40,000 fine.
The plea deal completes a spectacular fall for Mr. Petraeus, a retired four-star general who was once discussed as a possible candidate for vice president or even president. He led the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was the architect of a counterinsurgency strategy that at one time seemed a model for future warfare.
But the deal also ends two years of uncertainty and allows Mr. Petraeus to focus on his lucrative post-government career as a partner in a private equity firm and a worldwide speaker on national security issues. Even while under investigation, he has advised the White House on Iraq and terrorism issues.
The mistress, Paula Broadwell, is a former Army Reserve officer who had an affair with Mr. Petraeus in 2011, when she was interviewing him for a biography, “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.”
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The politics of this whole thing is weird.
Jeb says it’s OK as it was done out of Love.
A Democrat pleading guilty?
Then, former SOS Hilliarily will go free in spite of using an unprotected personal email acct. For years as SOS.
Then, former SOS Hilliarily will go free in spite of using an unprotected personal email acct. For years as SOS.
Then, former SOS Hilliarily will go free in spite of using an unprotected personal email acct. For years as SOS.
It’s simple. Barry set him up with a honey trap to discredit him in advance of any future testimony (Benghazi, etc..)
Paula Broadwell: the best deltoids in the publicity business.
What about the secret documents in sandy berger’s pants? Did he get a plea deal?
This is all garbage.
There’s no way the FBI didn’t know about the affair when he was vetted, obviously they didn’t view it as a risk.
This is all punishment because Petraeus knows too much about Benghazi.
“It’s simple. Barry set him up with a honey trap to discredit him in advance of any future testimony (Benghazi, etc..)”
Did Obama give Petraeus mind control drugs and direct him to have an affair?
Anybody arrest Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, Jon Corzine, Charley Rangel or Bill Clinton yet?
American anarcho-tyranny lives. 'nuff said.
This plea deal was in the works for awhile, but the fact that it's announced on the very day that the Hildebeast’s little email arrangement became public might make some people wonder if there might be some old-fashioned quid pro quo at work.
Such as: If you, Hildebeast, quietly announce in a couple of months that for “health reasons” you won't seek the DemonRat Party nomination, then we (0bameister & his minions) won't sic the Justice Department on you for your little peccadilloes.
Just a thought.
Prolly not, but we wonder in the cases of Eric Holder & Lois Lerner.
Remind me why neither of them are on trial for multiple felonies.
Is it because "The Law" in Merka is all about selective prosecution?
What did Kay Summersby know and when did she know it?
Wow...ironic....same deal as Sandy Burglar
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