CIA to probe 'general conduct' of Petraeus

[tttalinky]

CIA to probe 'general conduct' of Petraeus

Published November 15, 2012
Associated Press

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Acting CIA Director Michael Morell has ordered an "exploratory" inspector general's investigation into the general conduct of David Petraeus, who resigned last week as agency chief after admitting to an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

U.S. officials familiar with the investigation stressed this in not about finding out whether the former CIA director passed classified information to Broadwell, but rather "about general conduct."
"It's about checking to make sure no agency resources or personnel were used to facilitate this affair," one official told Fox News.
CIA spokesman Preston Golson says the investigation by the CIA's inspector general "doesn't presuppose any particular outcome."
Lawmakers questioned top CIA and FBI officials about the affair Thursday, during hearings originally scheduled to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Broadwell was found to have classified information in her possession, apparently from her time researching Petraeus' career.
The FBI cleared Petraeus of mishandling classified information, but reserve Army officer Broadwell is under investigation and her security clearance has been suspended.
Petraeus will testify before Congress Friday about the events in Benghazi.
Fox News' Justin Fishel and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz2CL8080Ju

[theaustinescorts]

We live in a society so stupid that every bureaucrat feels the need to "investigate" wherever there might possibly be something at all just to cover their ass in case anything might somehow be there and they missed it.

The FBI should never have been reading these peoples' mails in the first place.

None of these people were a national security threat in any way whatever.

It's normal for DCIA's to have mistresses. Allen Dulles used to have his officers arrange call girls for his foreign stays every time he left Washington.

But this kind of thinking is really dangerous.

In 2002 CIA endorsed the idea of WMDs in Iraq NOT BECAUSE THERE WAS EVIDENCE THEY WERE THERE.....BUT BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN CRITICIZED IF THEY WERE THERE BUT THEY COULDN'T BE FOUND.

They knew there was no evidence, but they made the claim anyway in case the evidence led the wrong way.

The primary objective of any bureaucrat is to avoid being perceived as making mistakes.

But he will gladly make huge mistakes if they ARE THE KIND OF MISTAKES THAT CAN'T EASILY BE CRITICIZED.

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Originally Posted by tttalinky

CIA to probe 'general conduct' of Petraeus

Published November 15, 2012
Associated Press

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• 
  
  
  

Acting CIA Director Michael Morell has ordered an "exploratory" inspector general's investigation into the general conduct of David Petraeus, who resigned last week as agency chief after admitting to an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

U.S. officials familiar with the investigation stressed this in not about finding out whether the former CIA director passed classified information to Broadwell, but rather "about general conduct."

"It's about checking to make sure no agency resources or personnel were used to facilitate this affair," one official told Fox News.
CIA spokesman Preston Golson says the investigation by the CIA's inspector general "doesn't presuppose any particular outcome."
Lawmakers questioned top CIA and FBI officials about the affair Thursday, during hearings originally scheduled to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Broadwell was found to have classified information in her possession, apparently from her time researching Petraeus' career.
The FBI cleared Petraeus of mishandling classified information, but reserve Army officer Broadwell is under investigation and her security clearance has been suspended.
Petraeus will testify before Congress Friday about the events in Benghazi.
Fox News' Justin Fishel and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz2CL8080Ju

Oh well, just the beginning of the conservabots' preemptive attempt to discredit whatever testimony General Petraeus might give that would support Obama's version of the Bhengazi events. No matter what sort of service Petraeus may have given to the country over the past 40 or so years, he can be thrown under the wheels of the conservative short-bus in order to allow support of whatever absurd sequence of events they think might support their version of what happened at Bhengazi.