“Yes, but he (Petraeus) released it to his half-wit mistress/biographer. Not to our enemies.”
Essentially true (no compromise to our enemies), but Paula Broadwell is no half-wit. She is a West Point Graduate, who was serving as a Reserve Army Military Intelligence Officer with a TS/SCI clearance, who had been polygraphed.
As either a battlefield commanding general, or as CIA Director, it was within his legal authority to grant access.
They nailed him on a technicality (he did not volunteer the existence of his personal notebooks to FBI investigators), and used the affair scandal, and the threat of railroading his girlfriend, to coerce him into accepting a deal.
He was targeted for personal destruction, because he polled well as a potential Republican Presidential candidate.
If she is blowing a married General she ain’t too smart.