CIA Director General Petraeus Resigns

[Charles Drago]

Fornigate.

End of contest.

[Peter Lemkin]

Fornigate.

End of contest.

Maybe Fournigate..unless the couples coupling grow.....as seems likely.:mexican: Just what does a 'hostess' at MacDill do? or is that...what does a hostess at MacDilldo ?

[Peter Lemkin]

WASHINGTONA federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors' concerns that he was personally involved in the case, according to officials familiar with the probe.

After the discovery of allegedly inappropriate e-mails between Marine Gen. John Allen and a Tampa woman, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta asked the Senate to put on hold the confirmation of the top commander in Afghanistan.
After being blocked from the case, the agent continued to press the matter, relaying his concerns to a member of Congress, the officials said.

New details about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation handled the case suggest that even as the bureau delved into Mr. Petraeus's personal life, the agency had to address conduct by its own agentwho allegedly sent shirtless photos of himself to a woman involved in the case prior to the investigation.

FBI officials declined to identify the agent, so he couldn't be reached to give his side of the story. The agent is now under investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility, the internal-affairs arm of the FBI, according to two officials familiar with the matter.

The revelations address how the investigation first began and ultimately led to Mr. Petraeus's downfall as director of the CIA. The new developments also raise questions about the role played by the FBI and the adequacy of notification to administration and congressional leaders about the scandal.

The FBI agent who started the case was a friend of Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who received harassing, anonymous emails that led to the probe, according to officials. Ms. Kelley, a volunteer who organizes social events for military personnel in the Tampa area, complained in May about the emails to a friend who is an FBI agent. That agent referred it to a cyber crimes unit, which opened an investigation.

However, supervisors soon became concerned that the initial agent might have grown obsessed with the matter, and prohibited him from any role in the investigation, according to the officials.

One official said the agent in question sent shirtless photos to Ms. Kelley well before the email investigation began, and FBI officials only became aware of them some time later. Eventually, supervisors told the agent he was to have nothing to do with the case, though he never had a formal role in the investigation, the official said.

A State Department official's complaints about email stalking launched the months-long criminal inquiry that led to a woman romantically linked to former Gen. David Petraeus and to his abrupt resignation Friday as CIA chief.
The agent, after being barred from the case, contacted a member of Congress, Washington Republican David Reichert, because he was concerned senior FBI officials were going to sweep the matter under the rug, the officials said. That information was relayed to top congressional officials, who notified FBI headquarters in Washington.

By that point, FBI agents had determined the harassing emails had been sent by Paula Broadwell, who had written a biography of Mr. Petraeus's military command.

Investigators had also determined that Ms. Broadwell had been having an affair with Mr. Petraeus, and that the emails suggested Ms. Broadwell was suspicious of Ms. Kelley's attention to Mr. Petraeus, officials said.

The accusatory emails, according to officials, were sent anonymously to an account shared by Ms. Kelley and her husband. Ms. Broadwell allegedly used a variety of email addresses to send the harassing messages to Ms. Kelley, officials said.

One asked if Ms. Kelley's husband was aware of her actions, according to officials. In another, the anonymous writer claimed to have watched Ms. Kelley touching "him'' provocatively underneath a table, the officials said.

The message was referring to Mr. Petraeus, but that wasn't clear at the time, officials said. A lawyer for Ms. Kelley didn't respond to messages Monday seeking comment on the anonymous emails or on the alleged emails from the FBI agent. A lawyer for Ms. Broadwell also didn't respond. Neither woman has replied to requests to speak about the matter.

By then, what began as a relatively simple cyberstalking case had ballooned into a national security investigation. Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell, both of them married, had set up private Gmail accounts to contact each other, according to several officials familiar with the investigation. The FBI at one point was concerned the CIA director's email had been accessed by outsiders.

After agents interviewed Ms. Broadwell, she let them examine her computer, where they found copies of classified documents, according to the officials. Both Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell denied that he had given her the documents, and FBI officials eventually concluded they had no evidence to suggest otherwise.

Even as the probe of the relationship between Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell intensified in late summer and early fall, authorities were able to eventually rule out a security breach, though intelligence officials became concerned Mr. Petraeus had left himself exposed to possible blackmail, according to officials.

On Monday night, reporters watching Ms. Broadwell's home in Charlotte, N.C., saw federal agents conduct what appeared to be a search. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed agents were at the home but declined to say what they were doing.

A day after the Nov. 6 election, intelligence officials presented their findings to the White House. Mr. Petraeus met with White House officials last Thursday and announced his resignation the following day.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have questioned whether Mr. Petraeus needed to resign over the affair, and some have argued that the FBI should have alerted both the White House and Congress much earlier to the potential security implications surrounding Mr. Petraeus.

In a separate twist in the tangled matter of Mr. Petraeus's resignation, the CIA disputed a theory advanced by Ms. Broadwell that insurgents may have attacked the U.S. consulate and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 in a bid to free militants being held there by the agency. Ms. Broadwell suggested that rationale for the consulate attack in an address at the University of Denver on Oct. 26.

"I don't know if a lot of you had heard this, but the CIA annex had actually taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think the attack on the consulate was an attempt to get these prisoners back," she said then. "It's still being vetted."

A CIA spokesman said there were no militant prisoners there, noting that President Barack Obama ended CIA authority to hold detainees in 2009. "Any suggestion that the agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless," said the spokesperson.

Some critics pointed to Ms. Broadwell's remarks in Denver as an indication that she may have been passing on classified information, leading to speculation that Mr. Petraeus may have been the source. Based on descriptions by U.S. officials, the romantic relationship had ended by then.

In addition, the source of her comment may not have been intelligence information, but news reports. Earlier in her address, she cited findings of a report that day by Fox News. Immediately after, she mentioned the possibility that the CIA had held militants at the site, which the Fox report also mentioned.

The Sept. 11 consulate attack resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. One person briefed on U.S. intelligence said that reports focused on two main motives for the attack: inspiration from the violent protest that day at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, and the exhortation of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri to avenge the death of his second in command. The possibility of attackers trying to free detainees never came up, this person said.

This week, lawmakers are slated to receive a series of closed-door briefings on both Benghazi and the FBI investigation that turned up the affair between Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has one such briefing on Benghazi scheduled Tuesday. On Wednesday, leaders of the House intelligence committeeRep. Michael Rogers, a Michigan Republican who chairs the panel and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democratwill be briefed by FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce and acting CIA director Michael Morell.

Senate intelligence committee staffers are working to schedule similar briefings. On Thursday, both the House and Senate intelligence committees were already slated to receive testimony on Benghazi from top intelligence and law-enforcement officials. The investigation that uncovered the affair is now expected to also be a central issue at those hearings, which won't be public.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), who chairs the Senate intelligence committee complained Sunday that she and her colleagues should have been told of the Petraeus-Broadwell affair when the FBI discovered it because of national-security concerns.

[Peter Lemkin]

Petraeus Scandal Expands to Cabinet as Benghazi Ties Hinted
After Resigning in Disgrace, Petraeus 'Too Busy' to Testify
By Jason Ditz
Global Research, November 13, 2012

Iraq Commander turned CENTCOM Commander turned Afghanistan Commander turned CIA Director David Petraeus spent the weekend unemployed, having resigned on Friday in the face of evidence he gave his girlfriend access to classified data.

But despite what one would figure is a wide open schedule, with his government career in tatters and his political future presumably dead, indications are that the "retired" general is "too busy" to testify on the September 11 attack on the Benghazi Consulate.

But the scandal surrounding both the literal and figurative Petraeus Affair continues to grow with or without him, and has even has a potential Benghazi link now, with the discovery that Petraeus's girlfriend Paula Broadwell recently made a claim that the Benghazi attack was centered not on the consulate but on the CIA safehouse, which she insists was housing detainees.

The CIA denies this, but a claim that was totally ignored at the time because there was no reason to take Broadwell's word for it, is getting a lot more attention now that it is known she had classified documents on her personal computer and could well have had inside access on the CIA's info on the attack.

Broadwell's classified data access is also having fallout beyond Petraeus now, witheyes turning on Attorney General Eric Holder, who knew about the investigation for months but reportedly kept it a secret until the end of the November 6 election, at which time he told DNI James Clapper, who advised Petraeus to resign.

There was already a lot of anger about the FBI not coming forward with information to Congress about the investigation as soon as it was apparent that there was a national security component, but if it turns out the Justice Department deliberately kept it under wraps to avoid any political fallout before the election, the scandal is even bigger.

And that could be the tip of the iceberg. If Broadwell's claims about the CIA holding detainees in Benghazi also turns out to be true, that whole separate scandal is potentially far bigger, as keeping that secret, along with the administration's already shaky history of truth-telling on Benghazi, could suggest there really was a cover-up in the wake of the attack on the consulate, that the Obama Administration lied about ending the use of CIA black sites, and got their own ambassador killed in doing so.

The possible fallout of all that, even coming after the presidential election, is virtually unfathomable, and as a part of the story continues to center on a sordid affair the real information about very really issues seems to be coming out as well.

[Charles Drago]

Petraeus Scandal Expands to Cabinet as Benghazi Ties Hinted
After Resigning in Disgrace, Petraeus 'Too Busy' to Testify
By Jason Ditz
Global Research, November 13, 2012

If Broadwell's claims about the CIA holding detainees in Benghazi also turns out to be true, that whole separate scandal is potentially far bigger, as keeping that secret, along with the administration's already shaky history of truth-telling on Benghazi, could suggest there really was a cover-up in the wake of the attack on the consulate, that the Obama Administration lied about ending the use of CIA black sites, and got their own ambassador killed in doing so. [emphasis added]

Presupposing, of course, that Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to be kept fully informed by CIA of all of its activities.

[Peter Lemkin]

Petraeus Scandal Expands to Cabinet as Benghazi Ties Hinted



After Resigning in Disgrace, Petraeus 'Too Busy' to Testify
By Jason Ditz
Global Research, November 13, 2012

If Broadwell's claims about the CIA holding detainees in Benghazi also turns out to be true, that whole separate scandal is potentially far bigger, as keeping that secret, along with the administration's already shaky history of truth-telling on Benghazi, could suggest there really was a cover-up in the wake of the attack on the consulate, that the Obama Administration lied about ending the use of CIA black sites, and got their own ambassador killed in doing so. [emphasis added]

Presupposing, of course, that Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to be kept fully informed by CIA of all of its activities.

It's my observation that once a CIA program beings....be it 'executive action', government overthrows, drug trafficing, black sites, mind control and on and on...they sometimes SAY they are shutting them down...but they NEVER do!...not a one of them!

So, it might turn out that Broadwell is the good gal exposing CIA lies and malfeasance.....she might even get the lead role in the next SuperWoman film....but look how complex this mess is already...and about to get more so....It reads like a cheap romance novel!.....

The FBI agent who started the case was a friend of Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who received harassing, anonymous emails that led to the probe, according to officials. Ms. Kelley, a volunteer who organizes social events for military personnel in the Tampa area, complained in May about the emails to a friend who is an FBI agent. That agent referred it to a cyber crimes unit, which opened an investigation.

However, supervisors soon became concerned that the initial agent might have grown obsessed with the matter, and prohibited him from any role in the investigation, according to the officials.

One official said the agent in question sent shirtless photos to Ms. Kelley well before the email investigation began, and FBI officials only became aware of them some time later. Eventually, supervisors told the agent he was to have nothing to do with the case, though he never had a formal role in the investigation, the official said.

A State Department official's complaints about email stalking launched the months-long criminal inquiry that led to a woman romantically linked to former Gen. David Petraeus and to his abrupt resignation Friday as CIA chief.

Paula Broadwell, at the center of the Petraeus case, poses with her biography of the former CIA Chief in January.

The agent, after being barred from the case, contacted a member of Congress, Washington Republican David Reichert, because he was concerned senior FBI officials were going to sweep the matter under the rug, the officials said. That information was relayed to top congressional officials, who notified FBI headquarters in Washington.

By that point, FBI agents had determined the harassing emails had been sent by Paula Broadwell, who had written a biography of Mr. Petraeus's military command.

Investigators had also determined that Ms. Broadwell had been having an affair with Mr. Petraeus, and that the emails suggested Ms. Broadwell was suspicious of Ms. Kelley's attention to Mr. Petraeus, officials said.

The accusatory emails, according to officials, were sent anonymously to an account shared by Ms. Kelley and her husband. Ms. Broadwell allegedly used a variety of email addresses to send the harassing messages to Ms. Kelley, officials said.

One asked if Ms. Kelley's husband was aware of her actions, according to officials. In another, the anonymous writer claimed to have watched Ms. Kelley touching "him'' [Patraeus] provocatively underneath a table. :rofl::mexican:

[Peter Lemkin]

The shirtless FBI investigator at the centre of the Petraeus sex scandal posed with dummies, it can be revealed.

Frederick W. Humphries II, a veteran FBI counterterrorism investigator, has been named as the shirtless agent in the Petraeus sex scandal.

Mr Humphries, 47, handled the initial complaint from Jill Kelley after General David Petraeus' mistress Paula Broadwell sent her threatening emails telling her to back off from Gen Petraeus.

Lawrence Berger, the general counsel for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, said the photo was sent as a joke and was of Mr Humphries ''posing with a couple of dummies'', the New York Times reports.

Mr Berger added that it was not sexual in nature.

Mr Humphries was dubbed "Agent Shirtless" after it emerged that he had sent shirtless photos of himself to Ms Kelley.

[Magda Hassan]

Paula D Broadwell

Email address: paula.broadwell@kcl.ac.uk
Research Interests

• Military Leadership
  

• Organizational and Management Theories
  
• U.S. Foreign, Defense, and Intelligence Policy
  

Biography

• PhD Research Associate, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
  
• U.S. National Security Education Program Boren Fellow (for Arabic Studies at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan)
  
• Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
  
• Master of Arts in International Security and Certificate in Conflict Resolution, University of Denver, Korbel School of International Studies
  
• Bachelor of Science, Systems Engineering and Political Geography, United States Military Academy at West Point
  
• Executive Board Member, Women in International Security; Carolinas Freedom Foundation
  
• Governing Council Member, International Security anbd Arms Conrol Committe of the International Studies Association
  
• U.S. Army reservist with 13 years of interagency [MH] and international counter-terrorism experience
  
• Extensive work, research, and travel in nearly 70 countries [MH]
  

• Published articles and participated in public speaking engagements with Fox News, CNBC, National Public Radio, Canadian Public Radio, British Broadcasting Company, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, U.S. News and World Report, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, the Stanley Foundation Report Series, Harvard Defense Leadership Project, and the Tufts University Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies
  

Current research

Paula is conducting a study in military innovation. Her work challenges existing theories which emphasize top-down transformations by examining the roles of bottom-up catalytsts and mid-level military mavericks in galvanizing institutional innovation, particularly in unconventional warfare and counterinsurgency operations. In addition to exploring the history of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine, her research examines the role of one individual who often receives credit for the U.S. defense innovation in the "new counterinsurgency era," General David Petraeus. By exploring Petraeus's "intellectual biography," her research illustrates the origins of his beliefs in population-centric counterinsurgency warfare and American grand strategy
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/wa...dwell.aspx

[Peter Lemkin]

An anonymous Wikipedia editor may have tried to reveal General David Petraeus's extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell back in January this year.

In January, Paula Broadwell appeared on the Daily Show to pitch her book about the CIA director titled All In.

The day after Wikipedia editor Vanobamo created a page for the author, which is common practice on the user-contributed online encyclopedia.

But less than an hour later an anonymous editor logged on to the website and wrote: "Petraeus is reportedly one of her many conquests."

It was the anonymous user's first and only Wikipedia edit, reports Gawker.

Their post, with the IP address 64.101.72.113, was deleted within an hour by editor Dsutton, who flagged it as "libel/vandalism".

At the time news of their affair had not surfaced and Wikipedia reserves the right to delete libelous material posted on the website.

An anonymous Wikipedia editor may have tried to reveal David Petraeus's affair with Paula Broadwell back in January this year

But now in hindsight, is unknown if Paula Broadwell's Wikipedia outing was speculation by a Daily Show viewer, or if the poster had secret knowledge of David Petraeus cheating on Holly his wife of 37 years.

Since news of the posting was released, several attempts have been made to track the IP address and determine the poster.

An IP address is an address assigned to every computer and other devices are logged onto the Internet to uniquely define them.

When Gawker ran it through the American Registry for Internet Numbers, they failed to come up with a name, but the result showed a company called Cisco Systems, Inc.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]4135[/ATTACH]

[Peter Lemkin]

Paula D Broadwell

Email address: paula.broadwell@kcl.ac.uk

Thanks for posting her email address at King's College [what has she to do with that University?].

I invited her to join our Forum. :mexican: But, as she is currently at her brother's home in Washington, I'm not sure she'll see it right away.