Sources: Petraeus Knew About Affair For More Than A Year
November 12, 2012 | ISSUE 48•46 | More News in Brief
WASHINGTON—High-level sources in Washington confirmed today that CIA director David Petraeus was fully aware of his extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell almost a year before the story broke last week. “All evidence suggests Petraeus quite probably had extensive and detailed knowledge about his protracted sexual relationship with Paula Broadwell as early as last fall, shortly after he began having sex with her,” said former Army spokesman Steve Boylan, adding that Petraeus was likely well informed of his own adultery throughout the course of his entire relationship with Broadwell, and may indeed have had full knowledge of various intimate details of said relationship. “There is strong reason to believe that Petraeus came across explicit e-mails sent between Mrs. Broadwell and himself not long after he wrote them, and that his awareness of the romance was more or less confirmed somewhere around the time he began having a yearlong affair with her.” Additional sources concluded it was very likely Petraeus knew he was completely fucked about 10 seconds after resigning.
John A says:
Yes, he knew…and he said nothing! This is really funny.
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12th November 2012 at 8:46 pm
John A says:
I found this you tube video searching for old 60′s music that I like. American Nostalgia from the 1963 before we lost JFK. I hope you will give it a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgqMW4CHClk&feature=related
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12th November 2012 at 8:48 pm
Administrator says:
John A
1963 was a good year. I was born.
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12th November 2012 at 8:52 pm
ASIG says:
And as head of the CIA it’s his responsibility to maintain secrecy.
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12th November 2012 at 9:05 pm
Chronic Agitator says:
It was some gooood ‘tang. Completely worth it!
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12th November 2012 at 9:21 pm
robk says:
I guess this is good news for the douche bag’s mistress. Being outed is way better than being fed to the fishes. BTW, look at him. That’s an American general? really?
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12th November 2012 at 10:26 pm
sangell says:
Yeah, laugh laugh laugh. You think its easy being a 4 star. Try it sometime. You gotta tesitfy before Congress and your wife tosses an english muffin with marmalade on it all over your decorations or hides your stars. You think you can run down to the PX and find a 4 star generals pin next to a PFC’s?
OK, I cheated on her but what the fuck. You spend a year in Afghanistan and see if you don’t start finding the goats looking sexy after you learn the women all smell like goats and their husbands will suicide bomb you if so much as try and peek underneath their burqas. The president orders you to train these towel heads and you try and tell him that you could train a rattlesnake to be loyal with more ease than these savages and that every time an Afghan general enters the room you reach for you gun in case he decides to pull any funny stuff in the room.
Yeah, I disgraced myself and let me tell you, I’ d do it again after spending a decade fighting the war on terror. I can’t wait to get off these Air Force jets and feel the soft fingers of a TSA agent fondling me for explosives. I’ll probably blow my load in then and there. A decade in the Muslim world will do that to a man as will a month with that fat suburban piece of shit I married.
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12th November 2012 at 11:40 pm
John A says:
Jim,
I was 11 in 1963, 5th grade. I remember eating lunch in the school cafeteria and listening to the World Series (NY Yankees vs LA Dodgers) with “transistor” radios.
Thanks for everything you do for TBP. It is greatly appreciated.
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12th November 2012 at 11:43 pm
GRGY says:
Wow Sangell, there’s sure some pent up emotion there. I’m sure glad you got that off your chest.
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12th November 2012 at 11:45 pm
sangell says:
1963 was the year America died. Rock n Roll had grown lame. The Four Seasons were topping the charts with sugary harmony about teen age love but out west there was a growl on transistor radios as the Beach Boys started singing about important things like horsepower and Super Stock Dodges when they weren’t cooing about their ‘little surfer girl. Sandy Koufax stood atop baseball like a God!
Then it all came crashing down. Kennedy got shot in Dallas. They let us out of school early and people were crying. I felt sick as I got on the bus to go home. The Russians were ahead of us in space, negroes were marching in the south and my comfortable world of American supremacy was about to come unravelled as the English guys who didn’t use Brylcream and could out rock Americans made it clear we were no longer the center of the world.
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12th November 2012 at 12:21 am
Ron says:
Just think about half of the usa has been getting boned for four years,and enjoyed it so much they wanted anouther four.
Makes you wonder if Obama is getting some strange in the white house?Mabe smoking some federally grown weed and hanging out and launching drones on someone while watching this live.Well hell the thinking in Washington is so far out they could be doing anything crazy behind closed doors.
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12th November 2012 at 12:31 am
SSS says:
“BTW, look at him (Petraeus). That’s an American general? really?”
—-robk
What’s an American general supposed to look like, Rob? Here’s a picture of another American general. He smoked and was bald. (Psssst. Please keep this quiet. There were rumors he also had an affair. I won’t tell anyone if you don’t.)
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12th November 2012 at 12:47 am
Novista says:
John A
A blast from the past … thanks. Funny how the onion always brings out some tangents.
I’ve gone from the worst of times to the best and back, probably won’t live through the next phase. At any given time, there was always something to embrace and cherish. So it goes.
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12th November 2012 at 6:21 am
flash says:
What is is with MD’s wives and their infatuation with men in the green machine?
The two sluts Kelly and Broadwell clear went to war over two psychopathic albeit subservient beta weasels..
Petraeus investigation ensnares commander of U.S., NATO troops in Afghanistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/scandal-probe-ensnares-commander-of-us-nato-troops-in-afghanistan/2012/11/13/a2a27232-2d7d-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_story.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/12/exclusive-paula-broadwell-s-emails-revealed.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/12/exclusive-paula-broadwell-s-emails-revealed.html
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12th November 2012 at 8:17 am
Kill Bill says:
1963
Boomer!!
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12th November 2012 at 9:32 am
Administrator says:
Still haven’t read the book?
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12th November 2012 at 9:49 am
Eddie says:
Petraeus looks nothing like Ike…but Paula Broadwell looks a great deal like Kay Summersby…enough for me to wonder if she was her..in a past life. Hmmmm.
Last summer I visited one of Ike’s billets in France…The Palace of King Stanislaus…generals always get the good quarters. No wonder their sex lives are better than that of enlisted men.
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12th November 2012 at 10:08 am
AWD says:
“1963 was a good year. I was born.”
I was born in 1963 also. I knew Admin and I were about the same age, but didn’t know it was the same year. Most certainly NOT boomers. Don’t even go there.
The old guy landed himself a hottie. Good for him.
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12th November 2012 at 11:00 am
Dorkus Maximus says:
Patraeus’ wife is a fugly old cow. Viagra has it limits.
I think a man in that position ought to be able to bang a few hotties and get away with it.
I’d hire him back in a heartbeat.
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12th November 2012 at 11:58 am
John A says:
Novista,
Thanks for the kind words. As with many others here, your insightful comments are always interesting to read and ponder.
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12th November 2012 at 12:29 pm
ASIG says:
1963 I was already out of high school. SSS and I are the same age. Tweeners.
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12th November 2012 at 1:01 pm
ASIG says:
If one was planning to declare them self dictator, they would probably start by eliminating the top brass of the military to weaken it so as to not provide a viable opposition to a takeover of the government.
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12th November 2012 at 1:14 pm
napari says:
The military is being purged of any and all individuals who can resist or damge the current regime. If you dont get chills in your spine or the hair on your neck standing up your officially brain dead!
Were all being set up for something really really bad…
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12th November 2012 at 1:15 pm
Thinker says:
Yeah, I’m thinking the same thing as ASIG and Napari… “the game is afoot.” Just trying to figure out how to put all the pieces together.
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12th November 2012 at 1:21 pm
Persnickety says:
I too think that potential rivals or obstacles are being removed for something bad to come.
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12th November 2012 at 1:31 pm
ASIG says:
Napari:
“The military is being purged of any and all individuals who can resist or damge the current regime. If you dont get chills in your spine or the hair on your neck standing up your officially brain dead!
Were all being set up for something really really bad…”
There are at least three top generals just in the last few days “under investigation”. Rather unusual/ interesting timing.
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12th November 2012 at 2:15 pm
napari says:
ASIG my opinion is if the corruption is now this bad where generals are being forced out of service, after long distingished carreers, its game over!
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12th November 2012 at 2:47 pm
SSS says:
ASIG, napari, and Thinker
If the idea is to purge all the top generals and admirals, “they” have a long way to go. There are dozens and dozens of 3 and 4 stars and hundreds of 1 and 2 stars.
Down to the fighting units. Colonels (think brigade and wing commanders in the army and air force) and navy captains (carrier commanders)? More hundreds. Lieutenant colonels (battalion and squadron commanders in the army and air force) and navy commanders (assault ships, etc). More hundreds.
I wouldn’t worry about anyone trying to castrate the armed forces of its leadership or create some sort of vacuum. It’s literally impossible.
@ ASIG
Tweeners rule.
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12th November 2012 at 6:41 pm
John A says:
US politicians dumping on their military high command, SOCOM warriors and troops in general is incredibly stupid and counter-productive. History books are full of accounts of civilian rulers who abused their soldiers and treated them as less than equal, and the results were not happy ones. It’s easy to vote for war when you don’t have to participate in the fighting/dying part of it. Most of our politicians have never even worn the uniform.
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12th November 2012 at 8:08 pm