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Old 11-12-2012, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Near a river
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Why did she need the "explicit trust of those in the CIA?"

She met the general in 2006 long before he took over as head of the CIA.
Anything she would write about Petraeus would reflect heavily on the CIA of course.

If they might have been concerned that she, a "green" author, might be a serious investigative reporter, they would either have watched her like a hawk, demanding to see drafts, or they would have blocked this biography. The CIA knows its business.
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Near a river
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The book is "suddenly doing very, very well"—

"a gushingly reverential ode" [as I'd suggested: a serious biography??]

Paula Broadwell's Book Is Suddenly Doing Very Well - National - The Atlantic Wire
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Riverside
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Possibilities:

Cantor & Co didn't want to get involved as it would have been perceived as Republicans were on a witch hunt conspiring to get Obama by revealing the affair, and that revealing it would have hurt Romney more than help him?

The whistleblower went to Cantor thinking that the Rs would expose it and had he gone to the Ds it would have been swept under the carpet?

Just saying.
This is actually the best evidence that this is just a sex scandal, not related to Benghazi- the Republicans had the story pre-election... and didn't use it.
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:17 PM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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Anything she would write about Petraeus would reflect heavily on the CIA of course.

If they might have been concerned that she, a "green" author, might be a serious investigative reporter, they would either have watched her like a hawk, demanding to see drafts, or they would have blocked this biography. The CIA knows its business.
Except it doesn't sound like the CIA was paying close enough attention.

Maybe because she had a high-level security clearance while she was with the general in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Officials at the CIA also told the Associated Press that they had been taken by surprise when Broadwell posted a photograph taken at the agency's Langley headquarters on her personal Facebook page."

Paula Broadwell Access To Classified Information Raises Questions (UPDATED)
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:18 PM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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This is actually the best evidence that this is just a sex scandal, not related to Benghazi- the Republicans had the story pre-election... and didn't use it.
Good point.
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Where I'm At
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She asked?

She is clearly well-educated, has a common background so could speak knowledgeably to the general about his career and she was willing to listen to him ramble on and on and on about himself to the exclusion of everything else. And think of the boost to his ego - here is a woman willing to leave her husband and small children to spend time with him. To basically follow him anywhere.

No big conspiracy here, just human nature.
If you were 59 (four-star general or not) and a fairly attractive, physically fit, 39-year-old woman (she just turned 40 last week) with breasts that look like large navel oranges hit on you (she kinda looks like she may have made the first move), would you turn her down if you believed you'd NEVER get caught? Remember, she's married to a doctor and she has kids, therefore she has a lot to lose, too. Gen Petraeus is a flawed human like any other man, and human nature says that the only thing a man will turn down is his collar .
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Charlotte
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Exclamation lol...

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It has nothing to do with an affair. That's probably an administration way of discrediting.
I'm guessing this is the FOX News version?

They seem to get a lot wrong lately.
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Old 11-12-2012, 06:04 PM
 
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deleted due to nature of subject

Last edited by stargazzer; 11-12-2012 at 06:33 PM..
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Old 11-12-2012, 07:43 PM
 
Location: Texas
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The thread title is, to be charitable, less than honest. There has yet to be a news story about this situation that says that having an affair makes Patreus a great man. Sounds quite Limbaugh-ish to me. No one has praised him because he had an affair.

At least be honest with the subject.
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Old 11-12-2012, 07:45 PM
 
Location: southern california
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i hear u. i understand that a guy that commits adultery is a dirtbag. but what i do not understand is that the millions of women that do it are victims.
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