Petraeus: the plot thickens

[Anonymous]

I should probably be double posting this in the Relationship forum. Seriously.

Turns out that Broadwell was sending threatening emails to another woman. That woman went to the FBI because she was frightened. They investigated, and it led them to Breadwell and her emails with Petraeus which indicated an affair.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-probe-of-petraeus-triggered-by-e-mail-threats-from-biographer-officials-say/2012/11/10/d2fc52de-2b68-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_story_1.html

[Anonymous]

He is a right wing hero! How dare you question him! This is Obama's fault. Clearly the stress of seeing Obama as president drove him to this.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone watch her interview on the Daily Show? I saw a couple of minutes on it- she seemed to hero-worship him.


MORAL OF THE STORY, LADIES: Do not let pretty younger women follow your husband around for months at a time in a foreign country so that she can write a book about his heroic exploits and gain him as a "mentor." She may be a psycho.

[Anonymous]

I saw a photo of them together on a plane and it reminded me of the John Edwards/Reille Hunter pictures.

[Anonymous]

What I found most interesting about the latest news to trickle out is that (1) Petraeus apparently knew for at least several weeks that the FBI was investigating him and was aware of the affair; (2) that the DNI, James Clapper, basically told him to resign earlier this week when they met. There goes all the gooey press stories about the honorable general, who fell on his sword to avoid embarassing his family or his agency. What seems quite strange is that the White House staff was apparently briefed about the Clapper-Petraeus convo on Wednesday and opted to wait until Thursday AM to tell the President. I've never worked in the White House obviously but that seems like an odd decision. If I were president, and one of my senior intel officials who was a nationally revered military hero was enmeshed in a scandal and considering resignation, I think I'd want to be the first to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I found most interesting about the latest news to trickle out is that (1) Petraeus apparently knew for at least several weeks that the FBI was investigating him and was aware of the affair; (2) that the DNI, James Clapper, basically told him to resign earlier this week when they met. There goes all the gooey press stories about the honorable general, who fell on his sword to avoid embarassing his family or his agency. What seems quite strange is that the White House staff was apparently briefed about the Clapper-Petraeus convo on Wednesday and opted to wait until Thursday AM to tell the President. I've never worked in the White House obviously but that seems like an odd decision. If I were president, and one of my senior intel officials who was a nationally revered military hero was enmeshed in a scandal and considering resignation, I think I'd want to be the first to know.

Really? Is there some action he would need to take between 5 pm and 7 am? I'm sure there are hundreds of things a President would like to be first to know but this is a resignation over an affair and what is to be done except read the brief on the investigation and ask for a briefing paper on replacement candidates?

[Anonymous]

If every affair were an emergency over which someone would have to resign, the Hill would be a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

I assume Obama's staff had more important things to talk about, and handled this when it gelled into something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone watch her interview on the Daily Show? I saw a couple of minutes on it- she seemed to hero-worship him.


MORAL OF THE STORY, LADIES: Do not let pretty younger women follow your husband around for months at a time in a foreign country so that she can write a book about his heroic exploits and gain him as a "mentor." She may be a psycho.

I saw the interview, too. She actually didn't seem to hero-worship him. She was saying all the right, hero-worship words, but she clearly wasn't believing them. To be blunt, she didn't seem to be a very nice person. While I think the general's actions are horrible, he seems to be a fairly decent person who married a very decent wife. He's made a terrible mistake. Hopefully his wife and family will eventually forgive him.

[Anonymous]

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the second woman is his wife.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone watch her interview on the Daily Show? I saw a couple of minutes on it- she seemed to hero-worship him.


MORAL OF THE STORY, LADIES: Do not let pretty younger women follow your husband around for months at a time in a foreign country so that she can write a book about his heroic exploits and gain him as a "mentor." She may be a psycho.

I saw the interview, too. She actually didn't seem to hero-worship him. She was saying all the right, hero-worship words, but she clearly wasn't believing them. To be blunt, she didn't seem to be a very nice person. While I think the general's actions are horrible, he seems to be a fairly decent person who married a very decent wife. He's made a terrible mistake. Hopefully his wife and family will eventually forgive him.

Your definition of a decent person is someone who is disloyal, betrays and disrespects the person they are supposed to/vowed to love and resepct, lies, is deceitful and knowingly causes significant emotional trauma to their spouse and family (as pretty much all affairs do when found out)? Your bar for decent is set pretty low!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone watch her interview on the Daily Show? I saw a couple of minutes on it- she seemed to hero-worship him.


MORAL OF THE STORY, LADIES: Do not let pretty younger women follow your husband around for months at a time in a foreign country so that she can write a book about his heroic exploits and gain him as a "mentor." She may be a psycho.

I agree. She looked like a true lunatic on that show, smirking and making faces. She looked like the cat who ate the canary - so smug and arrogant. I have no doubt she's been in trouble before. In fact, I kept wondering if she had a personality disorder.

[Anonymous]

I bet the second woman is another mistress

[Anonymous]

This is getting juicy. Looks like Peaches" got caught up in some kind of love triangle. And I love the way Broadwell smirked every time she was interviewed about Petraeus.

[Anonymous]

The 3rd woman could be Holly Petraeus? Wow, that would be something.