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The outing of Gen.
David Petraeus as an adulterer, and his subsequent resignation as
CIA Director, was carried out by an unknown FBI “whistleblower”
who leaked the facts of the FBI investigation into the General’s
private life to Rep. Eric Cantor. The New York Times reports:
“Eric Cantor,
the House majority leader, said Saturday an F.B.I. employee whom his
staff described as a whistle-blower told him about Mr. Petraeus’s
affair and a possible security breach in late October, which was
after the investigation had begun.
“’I was
contacted by an F.B.I. employee concerned that sensitive, classified
information may have been compromised and made certain Director
Mueller was aware of these serious allegations and the potential
risk to our national security,’ Mr. Cantor said in a
statement.
“Mr. Cantor
talked to the person after being told by Representative Dave
Reichert, Republican of Washington, that a whistle-blower wanted to
speak to someone in the Congressional leadership about a national
security concern. On Oct. 31, his chief of staff, Steve Stombres,
called the F.B.I. to tell them about the call.”
The FBI probe
apparently started in late
spring, when several people associated with Petraeus — not just the one
woman, as has been reported elsewhere —
received harassing emails. The emails were traced to 40-year-old
Paula Broadwell, national security analyst, military intelligence
veteran, and author of a biography of Petraeus. Authorities believed
his email account may
have been hacked, and this led to a remarkable irony:
the CIA chief’s emails were monitored, without his knowledge,
whereupon it was discovered Broadwell may have either had access to
his account or tried to obtain access. In any case, in the course of
their spying, FBI monitors discovered a large volume of emails to
and from Broadwell. Looking for evidence of a security breach, all
they found was evidence of a “human drama,” as one
anonymous FBI official put it: an illicit affair between Petraeus
and Broadwell.-[Full Article]
