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Topic: Petraeus talks at last and says
no classified info shared with
´mistress´ Paula Broadwell |
Petraeus talks at last and says
no classified info shared with
´mistress´ Paula Broadwell
Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By:PageTurner, 11/15/2012 11:07:48 PM
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| In his first public remarks since resigning as CIA director last Friday over an extramarital affair, retired General David Petraeus said he did not share any classified documents with his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell. Petraeus also told a reporter for the HLN television network that it was the affair, not any questions over the CIA´s role during the September 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that prompted him to step down. Reuters reported on Wednesday that investigators found substantial classified information on a computer used by Broadwell. According to law enforcement and national security sources,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
PageTurner, 11/15/2012 11:12:58 PM (No. 9017449)
Here´s a pretty good anthem for the current scandal, written sometime in the 1980s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4r5_LdfX3s
Check out the weirdly prescient lyrics: http://www.sting.com/discography/lyrics/lyric/song/102
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
miceal, 11/15/2012 11:16:22 PM (No. 9017454)
David, you disgust me! I seriously hope and pray you are a "LDot" subscriber...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KTWO, 11/15/2012 11:53:08 PM (No. 9017507)
He now admits what he cannot deny. And denies what e cannot admit.
That is quite usual in scandals.
He must absolutely deny she got classified material from him. That would totally ruin him.
I think it is the truth.
That does not mean Broadwell did not get such information from the relationship. It means he didn´t explicitly give it to her or intend her to get it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
badrad, 11/16/2012 1:26:35 AM (No. 9017582)
do not know him and do not believe him except in the context that he did not photo copy classified material and pass to her. A few drinks, some pillow talk and what´s on a person´s mind is often shared with a best friend and confidant, happened to Samson via Delilah ?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 11/16/2012 2:04:42 AM (No. 9017597)
I just read an article on Lucianne´s chat room, the place where Eaagles gather, that claimed Petraeus was part of a coup attempt in a struggle between our military and Obama; that shots were fired in Washington which were covered up as an attempted robbery, and his car was stopped and he was arrested and forced to resign.
The article appeared in some European media outlet and purported to have knowledge way above and beyond what the American public knows.
Come on! This is craziness. I had no idea any of our people were going off the deep end like this.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/16/2012 6:07:13 AM (No. 9017689)
This story completely ignores Broadwell´s Denver speech in which she gave out secret info that she could have only gotten from the general.
Maybe this whole left wing smear on this woman is to discredit what she said in Denver about a CIA prison which Obama supposedly outlawed in an exe. order.
There was an old movie called the man who knew too much. Make no mistake about it,Broadwell is a woman that knows too much despite Petraeus´s denial.
They´re going to drum up phony charges on this woman to use as blackmail to keep her mouth shut.
Anybody remember the DC Madame who mysteriously hung herself?
I hope this woman is never left alone wherever she´s staying because Obama´s goons have her staked out.The thugocracy must be protected at all costs. If Obama gets caught in one huge lie,the political landscape would shift dramatically in this country.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
coldoc, 11/16/2012 10:25:58 AM (No. 9018260)
If he didnt tell her, he probably told her enough to know what and where to get it. I hope the focus is not some guy trying to have a little excitement away from the dumpy old lady. How about who abandoned thirty people to be murdered? Get off the sex and focus on the crime. Sheeeesh!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lizzee1, 11/16/2012 2:10:54 PM (No. 9018855)
#5 was the source the "Russian Times?" sounds like something they would come up with, written by the non-existent ´´Sorcha Faal´´
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