Petraeus Affair

Following the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus, the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are under increasing pressure. High-ranking officials at the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department had known since the late summer of Petraeus' extramarital relationship, but no one outside the authorities informed, told the "New York Times". Other U.S. media, meanwhile, identified the "other woman" in the scandal.
Given the reports of the official internal Bekanntsein the affair for months showed members of the intelligence committees of the U.S. Congress irritated. You need to be constantly informed about relevant events in the FBI and CIA by law. But this was not done in this case, said the Democratic chairman of the Senate Committee, Dianne Feinstein, the Fox News. "We had no warning. That hit like a thunderbolt." On Tuesday, officials now are from the CIA and FBI to bring the members on the current status of the investigation.
Late last week, Petraeus acknowledged an extramarital affair and submitted his resignation. The National Intelligence Director James Clapper was, according to officials on Tuesday evening of last week informed about the affair and thus the evening of the U.S. presidential election. President Barack Obama, according to the White House learned only on Thursday morning of the events on Friday Petraeus came back after 14 months at the helm of U.S. foreign intelligence.
In Petraeus's lover is his 20 years younger biographer Paula Broadwell. U.S. media reported that the affair was known, because the FBI investigation initiated, after another woman had complained about threatening emails Broad Wells. When you are according to U.S. media to Jill Kelley of Florida, which had long been friends with Petraeus. The 37-year-old confirmed to ABC News that her family had with the friends of Petraeus in five years. They also asked for respecting the privacy of both families.
Petraeus himself has expressed his not in public. His former spokesman Steven Boylan reported, however, he was on the phone at the weekend with his ex-boss. Here, the 60-year-old had said that the affair with Broadwell began two months after his appointment as director of the CIA and was completed in four months. "He is devastated that can say that." It'll be a long time until the family have overcome the affair. "But they will do it," said Boylan was convinced the NBC television network.

Petraeus Affair

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