Petraeus and Mistress were both runners...hmmmm

It is well known that Petraeus is pretty fit.

http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--12348-0,00.html

Big deal. The general likes boning men and women. No sense kicking him out of the CIA just for that. He isn't Mormon afterall.

Wow... He was staying at one of Hussein's estate. I wonder how the US right wing would feel if a Chinese general was now occupying the white house (rent free I assume)...

The situation was/is bad enough. Why the taunt?

Let this be a lesson to all you married women. Keep it looking good, or else. case and point; look at his wife.

Can you blame him?

Keep it looking good ladies.

Broadwell ran 23:06 for 5K in 2008 and 1:36:26 for a Half Marathon in 2011 at age 39.

Petraeus ran 33:51 for 8K at age 54 in 2006. That's actually pretty studly for that age.

he's a 70's guy and has had male sex partners and female sex partners his whole life. i don't see why that should be a problem. there ought to be a way for top gov't officials to register sexual activities with the cia and fbi so that this does not occur again. having sex is a natural human need and petraeus is human.

Were these clean times?

Petraeus was so afraid of the Lobby that, after a report was published with his name on it that was critical of the plan to attack Iran, he invited the patron saint of victimhood, Elie Wiesel, and his galpal to dinner

NYR runner wrote:

Let this be a lesson to all you married women. Keep it looking good, or else. case and point; look at his wife.

Can you blame him?

Keep it looking good ladies.

A couple of double takes of the mistress and I'm whistling 'The Crying Game '.

NYR runner wrote:

Let this be a lesson to all you married women. Keep it looking good, or else. case and point; look at his wife.

Can you blame him?

Keep it looking good ladies.

That's his mother, isn't it?

Right!! I mean if a president of the United States of America can get sexually deviant with the use of his cigars, why should the CIA director feel as though he has to go??

I don't blame him for going after the lady.

Who wouldn't?

Look at her.

I don't blame him for resigning either though.

I wonder how many officers he evaluated got boned on their OER's for things like DUI, bouncing checks or smaller infractions which ultimately ruined theri careers, then he does something like this.

I realize he wasn't in the Army anymore, but he realized that in his career he had cashiered many young officers for much less to portray himself as a leader who set standards and honor would not let him hold himself to lesser standards..

Good job.

and good job on scoring a hot chick too although she seems a little like a Glenn Close type, so he may want to go into hiding.

He has good taste. Check out the second woman ni the affair, who was being harassed by Paula Broadwell:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2231411/David-Petraeus-scandal-Jill-Kelley-revealed-woman-complained-FBI-Paula-Broadwell.html

There are pictures of Paula Broadwell in the story too, in sleveless dress. Both women look great, paula broadwell is a babe.

Video that towards the end there is a pushup competition. Super fit, super smart, West Point grad. she is sexy.

No wonder David Petraeus couldnt resist her...

qae wrote:

I wonder how many officers he evaluated got boned on their OER's for things like DUI, bouncing checks or smaller infractions which ultimately ruined theri careers, then he does something like this.

As the old saying goes "A standing c0ck has no conscience".

qae wrote:

I don't blame him for going after the lady.

Who wouldn't?

Look at her.

I don't blame him for resigning either though.

I wonder how many officers he evaluated got boned on their OER's for things like DUI, bouncing checks or smaller infractions which ultimately ruined theri careers, then he does something like this.

I realize he wasn't in the Army anymore, but he realized that in his career he had cashiered many young officers for much less to portray himself as a leader who set standards and honor would not let him hold himself to lesser standards..

Good job.

and good job on scoring a hot chick too although she seems a little like a Glenn Close type, so he may want to go into hiding.

you are 100 percent correct! you can get in serious trouble in the military for infidelity....never took that into consideration...

Hypercompetitive bullet-heads like Petraeus and Broadwell make me laugh. They work so hard to convince themselves and everyone else of their superiority, when they're actually just big fish in the little pond that is the U.S. military.

PhD in international studies? Dime a dozen. If it were a PhD in astrophysics or computer science, then I might be impressed.

Those running times don't impress me either. I'd kick his arse at every distance, and I'm only three years younger than him.

No wonder Petraeus liked the "intellectual challenge" of the CIA. After decades of playing the standout in the mediocre world of the military, he finally had a chance to see how he measured up in something closer to the real world.

While Broadwell’s current academic affiliation is with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, her previous post was deputy director of the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School.

The Center, according to its self-description, “distinguishes itself by a philosophy that maintains counter-terrorism should be predictive, preventive and preemptive, with the latter being a last resort.” Founded in 2005, the Jebsen Center was made possible by the generous donation of one Jan Henrik Jebsen, heir to the Norwegian shipping fortune, who gave $1.3 million to set it up. Jebsen, a former investment banker with Lazard Freres, is the principal of Gamma Applied Visions Group, an international octopus with tentacles all over the place: part arms dealer and weapons developer, part “green” energy company. As one might expect from someone who has so much of his multi-billion dollar fortune invested in making and selling armaments, Jebsen is on the board of directors of the distinctly warlike Hudson Institute, where Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith, Michael Ledeen, and practically every neocon you’ve ever heard of have found refuge.

While, in true neocon fashion, Hudson scholars conjure a wide diversity of imminent “threats” to the US, including China and Russia, their main focus is the threat of Islamist radicalism, especially as it impacts Israel. Indeed, Hudson operates inside Israel, where it pushes the far-rightist views of the most extreme elements in Israeli society: the settler movement, and the faction of Likud angling for war with Iran. It has also focused its attention on purging universities of academics who don’t toe the right-wing ultra-nationalist Likudnik line.

More recently, former Hudson president and “trustee emeritus” Max Singer — who has since moved to Israel, where, as a “public policy consultant” at Bar Ilan University, he spends his time inciting violence against Palestinians — is on a mission to protect Israel from the alleged threat posed by the President of the United States.

The Jebsen Center has been equally useful to the neocons. Richard H. Schultz, head of Tufts’ International Studies program (of which the Center is a part) was a signatory to the Project for a New American Century’s “open letter” to President Bush urging war with Iraq and a number of other Middle Eastern actors in the wake of 9/11. Here he is recommending the importation of Israeli “anti-terrorist” techniques to pacify the restless natives of Iraq. Here is another Jebsen Center scholar describing alleged terrorist actions engaged in by Iran worldwide. And then there’s the testimony of this guy:

“The idea of overthrowing the Iranian government through covert but peaceful means is not original. The project was first brought to my attention in August 2006 when I worked as an intern research assistant at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Diplomacy’s Jebsen Center for Counter-terrorism. I worked for the then director of the center Brigadier General Russell Howard (Ret.) on a project titled Bringing Down Iran Without Firing A Shot. I wasn’t very experienced in the world of covert operations in the field or in the academic realm but I was very interested in becoming involved in it. General Howard, on the other hand, was not only a counter-terrorism strategist but a veteran Special Forces officer, an academic, and a tutor. It was General Howard who introduced me to the idea of targeting factors specific to Iran in order to adapt to the country’s specific needs. He had six factors which he believed were important: The military use of ongoing insurgencies within Iran, political strife, economic strife, declining oil revenues, demographics, and deteriorating infrastructure.”

Interestingly, in November of 2006, during her tenure at the Jebsen Center, Broadwell led a group of Fletcher School students on a trip to New York City to meet with then Iranian UN representative Javad Zarif. Both are alumni of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

All this establishes a context that goes far beyond the titillating details of the alleged affair between Petraeus and Broadwell — and this is no doubt what set alarm bells ringing in the intelligence community when it was revealed. Is there really any need to point out the uses of the “honeypot” in intelligence-gathering and other covert activities regularly engaged in by spooks of all nations? From Mata Hari to the Mossad agent who lured Israeli nuclear scientist Mordecahi Vanunu, sex is a time-honored weapon in the war of spy-vs-spy. A secret affair with the CIA Director is the equivalent of the Honeypot Olympics, and we have to ask: was the remarkably fit Ms. Broadwell a lure? If so, she’s won a Gold Medal.

Broadwell’s actions — sending emails that were bound to be traced back to her — appear to make little sense on the surface. But if the goal of luring a 60-year-old geezer into an affair with a much younger woman was to expose him, and get him fired, then surely her antics succeeded in accomplishing that goal.

So who would have an interest in getting rid of Petraeus? Here’s where the Cantor connection comes in. The tip by an anonymous “FBI employee” that wound up in Cantor’s office two weeks ago came through Rep. David Reichert, Republican of Washington state, who has a friend who knows the whistleblower. Cantor then spoke to the whistleblower directly, who put him in touch with FBI Director Mueller.

Cantor is a great friend of Israel, and Petraeus — not so much. The General was attacked, as you’ll recall, by partisans of the Lobby, including Abe Foxman, when he delivered testimony before Congress citing Israel as a strategic liability in the Middle East. As the executor of the new Obamaite policy of sidling up to Islamists, not only in Libya but also in Syria and Egypt, Petraeus was no doubt seen by the Israelis as an enemy to be neutralized.

Broadwell’s affiliation with the Jebsen Center, and the Center’s connection to the neoconservative network, sets the scene: a young, attractive woman with impeccable national security credentials throws herself at Petraeus, and he takes the bait. Whether she’s been recruited by a foreign intelligence agency at this point or not is irrelevant: he’s already put himself in a vulnerable position, and there are any number of actors on the international stage more than willing to press their advantage.

Will we ever know the full story? At this point, the story is so hot that it may burn the cover story — “it’s all about sex” — right off the wrapper. Because there’s more — a lot more — here than meets the eye. When Cantor pledged to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he and his fellow Republicans “will serve as a check on the administration” in regard to the President’s policy toward Israel, he was clearly aligning himself with a foreign leader against American interests as perceived by the White House. But would he really go this far — deliberately taking down a key figure, one beloved by Republicans, in order to keep his promise to Netanyahu?