CIA Chief Petraeus resigns as result of extra-marital affair

Broadwell must be something of a loose cannon if she sends threatening and harassing e-mail messages to other people.

Again, this reflects on the poor judgment shown by Petraeus in getting involved with someone like that.

Broadwell must be something of a loose cannon if she sends threatening and harassing e-mail messages to other people.

Again, this reflects on the poor judgment shown by Petraeus in getting involved with someone like that.

Do not agree with the someone like that comment as from what is publicly known about the lady there seems to had been no indication she could be that emotionally unstable.

Hopefully, Petraeus knew her considerably better than "what is publicly known about the lady"--and one might expect that he could have, and should have, been able to spot the signs of instability that are apparently there.

What's with all this silly speculation, FF?

Surely the truth will come out.

Trying to understand why this man, a particularly highly disciplined man, would jeopardize his career in this way is really the only part of this story I find interesting.

I am wondering if there was any "hell hath no furry like a woman scorned" being involved with the emails and some of her comments at the institute.

and one might expect that he could have, and should have, been able to spot the signs of instability that are apparently there.

Former CIA director David H. Petraeus told the woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair to stop sending threatening e-mails to a family friend, Jill Kelley, after a federal investigation determined who was behind the harassment.

The move by Petraeus came in mid-summer after Kelley contacted a friend who worked as an FBI agent in Tampa, where she lived, beginning a process that would eventually force the former four-star former general to resign last week.

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Kelley was informed that Broadwell was the sender, although she told investigators that she did not know the woman, according to the person close to Kelley.

At some point, Kelley told Petraeus about the e-mails and named Broadwell as the person who had sent them. That may have prompted the CIA director to send his own e-mails to Broadwell, telling her to stop the harassment, the law enforcement officials said.

People close to Petraeus say his affair with Broadwell ended four months ago, around the time he e-mailed her about the harassment.Filling in some blanks

Kelley, it appears, likely knew Petraeus from his time heading Florida-based U.S. Central Command, where she volunteered planning social events. She also had a friend in the FBI, whom she told about the e-mails. Perhaps because the messages referenced Petraeus, by then the director of the CIA, which is institutionally sensitive to any potential that its officials could be exposed to blackmail or other threats, the FBI seems to have pursued the case aggressively.

FBI investigators picked up the data trail from there. They determined that the account belonged to Broadwell and her husband, in part by analyzing the metadata attached to the e-mails, which can help determine the location of the sender. The locations matched up with Broadwell’s travel schedule. From there, the FBI identified other e-mail accounts that had been accessed from the same IP address, which they secured a warrant to monitor. This included another anonymous account, apparently also Broadwell’s, from which she exchanged sexually explicit e-mails with a third anonymous e-mail account, also Gmail. This account, the FBI concluded, belonged to Petraeus, a discovery that led agents to confront both him and Broadwell.Washington Post

This does not sound like the achievements of a woman that is unstable in anyway.

•Born in North Dakota in 1972 and raised in Bismarck, the state’s capital.
•Attended Century High School, where she was named both prom queen and valedictorian.
•Graduated from West Point,