Why Was Petraeus Fact-Finding While CIA Was Spinning "Facts"?
The WSJ has a story that captures a lot of what I've been pointing to in Petraeus Surge-Out. It explains how the investigation played out even as career CIA people objecting to Petraeus' regimented management style. It describes Petraeus' intent…
The Part of the Story "Shirtless FBI Guy" Left Out
The NYT has a nice story about Frederick Humphries, the FBI Agent who started the investigation into Paula Broadwell's emails. It talks about how aggressively he pursued Millenium Plotter Ahmed Ressam and other terrorism cases. It quotes two…
A Curious Time in an Ongoing Investigation to Suspend Base Access
For the record, I'm not terribly surprised by the news that Jill Kelley has lost her special "Friends" access to MacDill Air Force base. She has become downright embarrassing to several Generals and the military more generally. So you can't…
The Sexy-Time Exception to Retaining Classified Information
Last night, WaPo reported that the FBI is still trying to figure out how Paula Broadwell got classified information they found on her computer and--it looks like--in her home.
The FBI is making a new push to determine how a woman who had an…
While Washington Sniffs the Generals' Panties, Afghan Peace Talks Begin to Show Progress
With General John Allen now floating in some sort of purgatory where he has been tainted by figures in the Petraeus scandal, the "orderly" transition planned for Allen to step up to commanding NATO and General John Dunford to move up to replace…
David Petraeus: A Thrice-Failed Trainer?
There's a critical sub-genre of reporting on the Petraeus scandal, noting that Petraeus' sins don't so much pertain to fucking a dissertation advisee under his desk, but sending lots of men and women to die in his pet failed military strategies.
Of…
A "Self-Appointed" Go-Between with Lebanese Officials
Here's the first inkling of something Jim and I have been speculating about: that Jill Kelley may have some tie to intelligence, which led the FBI to take Paula Broadwell's harassing emails to her more seriously.
A military officer who is a…
Investigating National Security Personnel in the Post-Nidal Hasan Era
Three years and one day before FBI briefed DNI Clapper about the questionable email practices of David Petraeus, and less than three years before FBI alerted Leon Panetta to John Allen's perhaps less questionable email practices, an Army officer…
Funny. General Petraeus Didn't USE to Avoid Testifying to Congress...
ABC follows up on the point I made yesterday--that Congress is now getting interested in David Petraeus' October 31 trip to Egypt and, we now find out, Libya--and reveals that he now doesn't want to testify about his trip.
In late October,…
General Dynamics: The Digital Tale of John & Jill and Dave & Paula
Another giant shoe has dropped in L'Affaire Petraeus. Not simply more specifics, but yet another General:
Gen. John Allen, the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, is under investigation for what a senior defense official said…
Scandal Surge: The Mid-Summer Adjustment
These NYT, WaPo, and WSJ reports go a long way to clarifying some problems with the early chronology of the David Petraeus scandal
The NYT states the investigation started in June with Jill Kelley's complaints to an FBI agent friend (note,…
A CIA Report on a Trip to Africa, Again
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Holy hell I can't believe I'm back in the business of writing about CIA reports on trips to Africa again, but here I am.
In this post, I noted that David Petraeus…
The February 17 Brigade Liberates the Prisoners
I've got a half-done post backstage talking about the conflicting evidence regarding the February 17 Brigade's behavior the night of the Benghazi attack. Suffice it to say that, while they had been reliable in the past, and while CIA and State…
Petraeus Rules
While the Beltway is slowly coming around to the logic that it's not a good thing if the CIA Director has a pseudonymous Gmail account he uses to conduct an affair, it has yet to consider some other factors that may have forced David Petraeus…
Broadwell's Denver Appearance: Did She Cover Petraeus' Bad Briefs?
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Update: Sadly, it appears that the University of Denver has become cowardly and withdrawn the video, but I'm leaving the embed language in the post just to show the folly of their…
Why Would a Whistleblower Go to Eric Cantor?
The NYT reports that in late October, a "whistleblower" approached Eric Cantor to tell him about Petraeus' affair.
Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, said Saturday an F.B.I. employee whom his staff described as a whistle-blower told him…
Blowback: Stuxnet and the Ongoing Risk to Manufacturing Worldwide
Dear Chevron: Thanks for letting us know you’ve been infected with Stuxnet. It’s difficult to muster sympathy for your management or shareholders, because you were warned.This guy quite clearly warned your industry, as did other firms specializing…
Petraeus Knew of FBI Investigation During Benghazi Pushback
I'm supposed to be packing to move today, so I may not get to my post on how Big Brother and the Obama Administration's assault on leakers doomed Petraeus' career (though Josh Gerstein and Jesselyn Raddack hit on some of the issues).
For…
Chicago Style Trash Talk
Well, now that the little Le'Affaire du Patraeus thing is over (just kidding, Pete Hoekstra promises more to come!), we can now get back to the important stuff: Trash Talk. This edition is served up Chicago Style because no city has had a better…
SCOTUS Prepares to Decide 2016 Election
One of the unsung heros of this election is Thomas Perez, head of DOJ's Civil Rights Division. By aggressively challenging states trying to disenfranchise people of color, he prevented states from tipping the scale for Republicans.
Apparently,…
