FBI probe of Petraeus triggered by e-mail threats from biographer, officials say
The collapse of the dazzling career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.The recipient of the e-mails was so frightened that she went to the FBI for protection and help tracking down the sender, according to the officials. The FBI investigation traced the threats to Paula Broadwell, a former military officer and Petraeus biographer, and uncovered explicit e-mails between Broadwell and Petraeus, the officials said.
When Petraeus’s name first surfaced, FBI investigators were concerned that the CIA director’s personal e-mail account had been hacked and security had been breached. But the sexual nature of the e-mails led them to conclude that Petraeus and Broadwell were engaged in an affair, the officials said.
The identity of the woman who received the e-mails was not disclosed and the nature of her relationship with Petraeus is unknown. The law enforcement officials said the e-mails indicated that Broadwell perceived the other woman as a threat to her relationship with Petraeus.
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.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost
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Looks like Patraeus has three women involved now. 
what i would have done.
plus i would have to learn how all this stuff worked so i could be better equipped to hide the shit. i am to lazy and uninterested.
damn, hubby gets to feel awfully secure. 
and be independent of me.
project your biases if you like,
I'm glad I don't date much any more, though.
and goes off the deep end. 
I watched that shitface Peter King trying to turn this into a conspiracy to keep things under wraps until the election was over.
Said there was NO way that the FBI could be investigating Petraeus and Obama not know it...unless of course the investigation was not about him initially.
him as a Lothario.
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Despite the Times' delicate wording ("a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him"&341;, it suggests that Broadwell was a mistress scorned. And the fact the "the recipient of the e-mails was so frightened that she went to the FBI" instead of the police suggest that she wasn't a mere civilian any more than Broadwell was.
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A senior U.S. military official says the author who had an affair with David Petraeus sent harassing emails to a woman who was the State Department's liaison to the military's Joint Special Operations Command...37-year-old Jill Kelley in Tampa, Fla., received the emails from Petraeus biographer Paula Broadwell that triggered an FBI investigation...(link)
This article says that Kelley DIDN'T go to the FBI:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor spoke to an FBI whistle-blower two weeks ago who accused then-CIA Director David Petraeus of having an extramarital affair and potentially jeopardizing the security of classified information...Cantor’s chief of staff, Steve Stombres, later spoke with FBI officials to pass on the accusations from the whistle-blower...(link)
Which raises the question of why Cantor didn't inform the one member of Congress who should have been informed:
House majority leader Eric Cantor talked to an FBI official in late October about former CIA Director David Petraeus' involvement in an affair, a spokesman for the congressman told CNN Sunday...October 31, Cantor's chief of staff phoned the FBI to inform them about the call between the congressman and the FBI official...(link)
Which in turns raises the question of why the commander-in-chief wasn't informed.
I love the smell of vindication in the morning.
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