Report: FBI and Justice Department prosecutors recommend felony charges against Petraeus

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foxnews.com:

FBI and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against former CIA director David Petraeus, the New York Times reported Friday night.

 

The paper, citing “officials,” said the charges related to Petraeus allegedly providing classified information to his former mistress.

 

If true, Attorney General Eric Holder would then have to decide whether to seek an indictment against Petraeus. Holder originally had been expected to decide about charges by the end of 2014.

 

The Times said the Justice Department investigation stemmed from an affair Petraeus had with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, and whether he gave her access to his CIA email account and other classified information. Petraeus, a retired four-star general, has said he never provided her with classified information.

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CIA and DOJ want David Petraeus to stand trial
Jazz Shaw

January 10, 2015

 

Back in March of 2013, Ed covered a very public appearance and apology by General David Patraeus in the wake of revelations that he had engaged in an extramarital affair and possibly released sensitive, classified material to his partner. It was clear that the General was in trouble, but was trying to do some fence mending and prepare to get on with his life. At the time, Ed wrote:

 

 

I’d guess that Petraeus may have damaged his value in politics somewhat, but I was never convinced that he wanted to pursue public office anyway. Petraeus’ scandal was more personal than professional, and his value in the private sector or at think tanks should still be high. Besides, Americans tend to be a forgiving people — one of our best qualities — and a public act of contrition and responsibility goes a long way towards securing that forgiveness.

 

 

Americans in general may be a forgiving people, but the folks at the CIA and the Department of Justice clearly share no such sentiments. An investigation has been ongoing for more than two years and, as Business Insider reports, it seems that General Petraeus may still have to answer for his actions in court.

 

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In the end, even if this goes poorly for him, I fully expect that David Petraeus will face this with dignity and maturity. And while he needs to be held accountable if he truly did compromise American security, we should not forget the career that led him to those positions of trust and authority in the first place.

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Down from Olympus

Victor Davis Hanson
November 19, 2012

 

David Petraeus’s resignation marks the end of one of the great postwar military and government careers — his successful surge in Iraq being analogous to and as impressive as Matthew Ridgway’s salvation of Korea or Sherman’s sudden taking of Atlanta that saved Lincoln’s and the Union cause before the 1864 elections. In a book due out in late spring, The Savior Generals, I argue that his achievements were comparable to those of the best of history’s maverick commanders who were asked to save wars deemed lost — and did. But for now, the explanation of Petraeus’s resignation unfortunately raises more questions than it answers, in a number of significant ways:

 

1) Fairly or not, questions will be raised why this Washington-style Friday-afternoon resignation occurred after rather than before the election — a question that does not necessarily suggest that Petraeus did not take the proper nonpartisan course. But just days after this Tuesday, we are already beginning to hear of all sorts of “sudden” news: the Iranian attack on a US drone; the plight of the Hurricane Sandy victims (400,000 still without power? gas rationing, tens of thousands homeless, exposure to cold?, etc.) as much more severe than we were led to believe; the sudden publicity on the “fiscal cliff”; and the Benghazi hearings. In that unfortunate politicized landscape comes the Petraeus bombshell.

 

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5) For most of us, however, Petraeus is forever frozen as the hero of 2007–08, when, battered by the congressional hearings (Hillary Clinton’s “suspension of disbelief”) and ad hominem attack ads in the New York Times (“General Betray US”), he nonetheless pressed ahead and broke the back of the insurgency — in part because of his competence, his unmatched reputation, and the talented circle around him. After he came down from Olympus in 2008, his subsequent billets in Afghanistan and at the CIA took on political significance, given the Obama administration’s paradoxical and obsessive desire to affect his career by keeping him close by, while failing to appoint him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, or supreme NATO commander — appointments that were offered to those of lesser stature. In 2007, the Left went after him as a “Bush general”; in 2009, the Right was disappointed in him for his sudden close, personal relationship with Obama. The truth was always that he sought to serve his country regardless of politics.

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Published on Jun 4, 2013

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Victor Davis Hanson talked about his book, The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq.
The interview, part of Book TV's college series, was recorded at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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Of all the things the justice department ignores and this is what they go after?

[SrWoodchuck]

Of all the things the justice department ignores and this is what they go after?

 

[Valin]

Of all the things the justice department ignores and this is what they go after?

 

 

I would hazard a guess that there is more than just the DOJ behind this. I have a feeling feathers were ruffled at the CIA...and the Pentagon.