do you thinkmanyone in d.c. will ask the question.do you think this is how all our national security leaks were coming from?this is a very scary situation america,let no one tell you different.
It seems to me that many people do not understand that when stories run into events which deal with top secret activities, you are not going to get all the details. CIA Director Petraeus personal life happened to get entangled with the mechanisms that protect the nation's secrets and he saw fit to resign. But those same mechanisms will stone wall and muddy the water with disinformation to continue to protect secret activities.
There is nothing like the love of a groupie... to really mess up your head.
I don't get why FBI counterintelligence was looking at the CIA Director's e-mails. I thought CIA counterintelligence was responsible for CIA employees. Maybe there's a difference because Petraeus is a presidential appointee.
What on earth is going on? We lost four lives at Benghazi at the hands of terrorists and the FBI couldn't or didn't want to investigate. And now you have an affair uncovered by one of our most decorated generals? Highly suspect **** going on in this administration. You asked for this crap, AMERICA! Now you deal with it!
I didn't even watch the video but I'll reply to the headline. The FBI was absolutely right to investigate him if they had any credible suggestion that he has having an affair. A spy with skeletons in his closet is a security risk and the person at the top of the agency must be above reproach. They did their job and he did the honorable thing and immediately resigned and acknowledged his error.
Gadfly you are funny! No they don't have that right... you obviously have NO clue what you are talking about. There is this thing called DUE PROCESS. You need PROOF to do things like electronic wire taps which they did not have. The woman is Paula Broadwell and she is currently under FBI investigation for improperly trying to access Petraeus' emails and possibly gaining access to classified information. This is a lie. It's a cover story. Classified information is not EMAILED. So if it was regular email then that she was "hacking" then the investigation would NOT be in the FBI's hand. Either this was recent in which case the CIA would have noticed it in their IT department and the FBI would have had NO WAY TO KNOW it even happened OR it was during his military service and they would have dealt with it. Point is this, someone had the FBI looking for something. What and why? Was it dirt? Was it to see what information Petraeus had about Benghazi? Who knows. We don't know when the investigation happened, we don't know which system they found this information on (what emails? what email systems? were they personal emails or work emails?) It sounds a lot like Watergate to me, the president is having his men find information he needs to protect himself.
Do you not realize that when someone accepts a position as sensitive as the directorate of the CIA that he signs an agreement waiving much of his due process? It essentially gives his employer, the US government, the freedom to conduct warrantless searches at its discretion and it's why Petraeus resigned quickly and without fuss; he knows he has no legal grounds to object.
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I don't get why FBI counterintelligence was looking at the CIA Director's e-mails. I thought CIA counterintelligence was responsible for CIA employees. Maybe there's a difference because Petraeus is a presidential appointee.
The FBI was absolutely right to investigate him if they had any credible suggestion that he has having an affair. A spy with skeletons in his closet is a security risk and the person at the top of the agency must be above reproach. They did their job and he did the honorable thing and immediately resigned and acknowledged his error.