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National security reporter: Petraeus was a ‘total flirt both with men and women’
Tara McKelvey, who writes about national security for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, told CNN on Sunday that former CIA Director David Petraeus flirted with both men in women in the media to get favorable press coverage. Following his resignation earlier this month, McKelvey recalled her experience with Petraeus and…
Petraeus tells Congress that Susan Rice was unaware of al-Qaida ties to Benghazi
David Petraeus, the former CIA director, told congressional hearings on Friday that he had always known a terrorist group had been involved in an attack in Benghazi that left the US ambassador and three other Americans dead. According to reports from members of Congress who attended the closed-door hearings, Petraeus…
Petraeus testimony fails to satisfy Republicans on Benghazi attack
David Petraeus, the scandal-hit former CIA chief, faced a Congressional grilling on Friday over conflicting accounts of the attack in September on the US consulate in Benghazi. Petraeus, in his first public outing since resigning from the CIA a week ago over an affair with his biographer, was smuggled into Congress for…
Petraeus sex scandal prompts laughter among Taliban
The sex scandal that has brought down CIA chief David Petraeus may be causing heartache in the Washington security establishment but the affair has prompted laughter among the Taliban. Petraeus resigned last week to pre-empt revelations of an affair with his married biographer Paula Broadwell, bringing to an end a…
Shirtless FBI agent named in Petraeus affair scandal
Frederick W Humphries II unmasked as investigator who was banned from case because of relationship with Jill Kelley The FBI agent who set in motion the investigation that brought down David Petraeus as CIA director, but was ordered to stay away from the case because of his alleged infatuation with…
Petraeus mistress Paula Broadwell loses security clearance
WASHINGTON — Paula Broadwell, the woman at the center of the scandal that felled former CIA director David Petraeus, has been stripped of her security clearance amid an FBI investigation, CNN said Wednesday. The military clearance allowed Broadwell, a major in the US army reserve and a graduate of the…
Petraeus abruptly resigns as CIA director citing affair: report
CIA Director David Petraeus resigned his post effective immediately in a letter given to President Barack Obama on Friday, citing an unspecified extramarital affair. “After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgement by engaging in an extramarital affair,” he wrote in a CIA memo obtained by…
Is CIA chief Petraeus running for president — of Princeton?
A college newspaper has set off a wave of speculation that David Petraeus, the general-turned-CIA-spy-chief, might want to leave his job to become president — of Princeton University. Petraeus, 59, has long been suspected of harboring political ambitions but he has sometimes fended off questions about a possible White House…
White House dismisses talk of Petraeus for VP
WASHINGTON — The White House Tuesday knocked down a report that President Barack Obama feared that Republican Mitt Romney wants CIA chief and Iraq war hero David Petraeus as his running mate. “Be mindful of your sources,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told a reporter who queried him on the…
As U.S. commander, Petraeus ruled out resigning: book
WASHINGTON — The former US military commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, rejected suggestions to resign over disagreements with President Barack Obama, concluding it would be a “selfish, grandstanding move,” a new book says. “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,” describes how the general — now CIA director…
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