David Petraeus Gets Fine & Probation For Leaking National Secrets
1. David Petraeus Gets Fine & Probation For Leaking National
Secrets
David Petraeus Gets Fine & Probation For Leaking National Secrets
David Petraeus will face criminal sentencing later this morning as part of a guilty plea concerning
the admission that he shared classified information with his mistress, Paula Broadwell.
In what is the biggest case of falling from grace since Bill Clinton's impeachment, General David
Petraeus was once in charge of operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, later, of the Central
Intelligence Agency and was a potential presidential candidate.
After serving as head of the CIA for only a year, however, David Petraeus sent a resignation letter
night light led to President Obama. The resignation was abrupt, and raised more than a few
eyebrows in the governmental theater. Then, in 2012, information began to seep out in drips and
drabs that Patraeus had taken on his biographer, Paula Broadwell, as a lover. David Petraeus has
been married since 1974 to Holly Knowlton Petraeus.
At first everyone just thought that Petraeus had seen the error of his ways and realized that the head
of the Central Intelligence Agency shouldn't be someone with a mistress. However, things got a bit
more dicey when it came to light that David may have shared classified information with Paula
Broadwell.
The information that David Petraeus shared with Broadwell was contained in two black notebooks.
Each reportedly contained notes from national security meetings, the names of covert officers and
other classified material.
Having plead guilty for sharing the classified material with his lover, it now appears as if David
Petraeus is going to granted a plea deal at his sentencing later today. For payment of $40,000, and
for being on probation for 2 years, Petraeus will reportedly avoid jail time. In fact, to a man of
David's stature, the penalty is really no more than a slap on the wrist.
Some would say that David Petraeus has already started coming back from the his brief fall from
grace, just as Bill Clinton did after his impeachment. Slowly but surely, the former general and CIA
chief has quietly accepted positions at universities and the private equity powerhouse, Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts. There's even been talk of David rising back up through the popularity and political
ranks to try his hand for a run at the presidency - if not in 2016, then in 2020.
2. Next #Daybreak @wsoctv,
@StephanieWSOC9 on
#PetraeusSentencing. Why former CIA
Dir. only faces a misdemeanor for
sharing classified info.
-- Allison Latos (@AllisonWSOC9) April
23, 2015
Obama double standards on leaks: While
@xychelsea serves 35 years, plea deal
gets Petraeus fine and probation
http://t.co/tbWmxYUDYV
-- Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) April 23,
2015
David Petraeus' fall began and ends in Charlotte, NC: http://t.co/IX9yqiVihp
-- Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) April 23, 2015
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