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Topic: Petraeus ´flew mistress to Paris for a trip that was funded by the government´ after he was named CIA chief |
Petraeus ´flew mistress to Paris for a trip that was funded by the government´ after he was named CIA chief
Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson & Staff
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/11/2012 9:59:19 PM
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| David Petreaus took his mistress with him on a government funded trip to Paris after he was named director of the Central Intelligence Agency, according to news reports. Petraeus made the trip with 40-year-old Paula Broadwell, who has written a fawning biography of him, in July 2011, an unnamed source told Buzzfeed. Petraus was heading to his new job as chief of the CIA at the time. Sixteen months later, the four-star general has resigned from his post after his affair with Broadwell was uncovered by the FBI.
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Comments: No wonder the situation in Benghazi was a disaster. He obviously had his mind on other things. What a tragedy for our nation and every family that has been touched by this. This should have been known before the election. We have just seen the beginning of the corruption and criminality from this regime.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
msjena, 11/11/2012 10:02:58 PM (No. 9008106)
Are we really supposed to believe that Obama didn´t know about this? Eric Holder must have known. Wouldn´t he have shared the "hot gossip?" Petraeus is sure a disappointment. Is it really that hard for men to resist a sexual advance from an attractive woman?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 11/11/2012 10:07:43 PM (No. 9008110)
Wow look at the dirt the press can dig up when they really, really want to.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 11/11/2012 10:10:19 PM (No. 9008112)
Petraeus is just another eyebrow plucking metrosexual riding the gravy train. His only saving grace was that he was smart enough to listen to intellectual giants like Boyd and Lind.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 11/11/2012 10:16:38 PM (No. 9008117)
Exactly, #2. But therein may lie our solution. Just start a rumor of a sexual liaison between Obama and the transcript records clerks at the colleges he attended. Seems such stories are much more interesting to the media and to the public.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 11/11/2012 10:18:48 PM (No. 9008119)
Poor Chris Stevens and the CIA Security who weren´t even charged to guard him...but did anyway. No one cares....not ABC, nor CBS,...especially not NBC.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Coy860, 11/11/2012 10:19:06 PM (No. 9008120)
I feel badly for his family. More publicity than the murder of 4 innocent men in Benghazi. SHAME on the media. Petraeus owed his wife and his Country fidelity. SHAME!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dante, 11/11/2012 10:22:41 PM (No. 9008122)
This is petty theft compared to the grand larceny committed by Aunt Esther on her multiple vacations.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
noddy, 11/11/2012 10:30:01 PM (No. 9008129)
Exactly #2. Now if they would just stop gloating and dig up some high school and college records, a birth certificate, identities of all the people on all the different social security numbers and for the sex angle they can check out the bath house and down low issue. Hey, why not? He´s not running again, even though he´s in a constant campaign mode.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
thewarden, 11/11/2012 10:58:04 PM (No. 9008145)
They´re both trash. They deserve everything coming to them, in spades. Is there not one decent human being in the government who is above reproach? I am so sick of this.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ivehadit, 11/11/2012 11:04:31 PM (No. 9008150)
In my humble opinion, my suspicions are that this drip, drip, drip of negative info is designed to discredit Petraeus´ testimony before Congress next week....or whenever he is called so that the public will pay little attention to him when he does testify.
I would love to hear what Jeff Sessions thinks about all this...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anonymous, 11/11/2012 11:07:20 PM (No. 9008153)
If this had been known before the election, it would not have registered well with the American people.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
janylou, 11/11/2012 11:07:56 PM (No. 9008155)
K.T. McFarland was on Justice with Judge Jeanine last night and she said that Petraeus would have had to taken a lie detector test to become the CIA director. One of the questions they would have asked him was whether there was any embarassing things in his background. According to her, he would have told them. She said there were rumors flying all over the place about this relationship when she was in Afghanistan before he resigned and took over at CIA.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 11/11/2012 11:34:52 PM (No. 9008170)
Judge Janine- now there´s an opinion I would listen to. How about Judge Judy?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 11/11/2012 11:45:53 PM (No. 9008175)
There is a lot of overkill. Is this the only thing happening this weekend ?
Do we think he is the only one cheating on our dime ? Does her youngest look like Patraeus ?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 11/12/2012 6:01:13 AM (No. 9008312)
Wow, the goobermint paid for ONE mistress trip and the newspapers go wild. I saw no mention of the Horndog´s 100+ trips with his flock of sex objects tagging along. I guess that was okay.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/12/2012 10:13:54 AM (No. 9008757)
I was not aware that an appointment as CIA director included a paid trip to Paris with your mistress. This would seem taxable. Will the IRS do an audit?
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