The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against David H. Petraeus, contending that he provided classified information to a lover while he was director of the C.I.A., officials said, leaving Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to decide whether to seek an indictment that could send the pre-eminent military officer of his generation to prison.
Mr. Holder has said little publicly about the investigation. The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked by reporters in December why it was taking so long, said: “I can’t say. I mean, I guess I could say, but I won’t say.”
Plenty of people have gone to prison for far less. Unlike many of my fellow conservatives, I believe that past service is a mitigating factor only in the sentencing phase of the criminal proceedings; not the decision to bring an indictment which should be determined by the facts at hand. I also do not care that he came from an administration that could not keep its collective mouth shut when it came to classified information. The Obama Administration is not the standard of conduct for our intelligence agencies.
This is yet another example of how people can be spectacularly brilliant in one aspect of their life, yet utterly foolish in the other portions.
He earned them, but I will be shocked if he is indicted, and and even more shocked if convicted. Every other branch of Govt seems to be doing everything they can to pretend it never happened, I imagine they are going to pressure Comey to back down and learn to get along and be a team player…
The current attorney general, Eric Holder,[3] was confirmed to office by the Senate on February 2, 2009, and sworn into office on February 3, 2009.[4] Holder is the 82nd United States Attorney General and the first African-American to hold the position. On September 25, 2014, he announced his resignation pending the appointment and approval of a successor.[5]
In the mean time, “He’s off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.”
It’s unlikely that Congress will confirm anyone Obama would be willing to nominate at this point. I think it was a ploy to get some of the heat and scrutiny off him, as if he’s now some lame-duck AG? Whatever, he’s still pulling strings and directing injustice just like before…
Patreaus went from turd to Golden Boy and back to turd in the span of a couple of years, remember “Betrayus” instead of Patreaus?
When he played for the Bush team the left wanted him charged with war crimes, when he played for the Obama team he was cool for a bit and now this.
At the risk of sounding like I have a tin foil baseball cap on, I wonder if when he took the CIA job he became aware of some stuff, some of it might have been the file they had on him and a lot of other people that was ready and available to use for blackmail.
As the tensions rose on several issues such as Libya, Fast and Furious and Obama Care, perhaps the pieces all came together and he had a “WTF” moment.
At any rate, he is pretty much screwed now, I wouldn’t be surprised if he takes a car for a long drive and rolls down the windows, but never leaves the garage.
Out of curiosity, would his position as CIA director give him some latitude as to the release of information? I haven’t really payed attention to what was leaked.
I think the bigger issue with the DOJ is that they have been sitting on this for as long as they have.
I think this former tinfoil hat scenario happens all to often where people with known “flaws” get high appointment, then are “run” by the powers that be with the threat of blackmail. Chief Justice Roberts comes to mind.
No, I think that it is pretty much established that he was giving that skank the ol’ pickle tickle while feeding her “insider” access for her book. Petraeus admitted to the affair. In addition, nobody is contesting that some emails found on her hard drive from Petraeus were classified. The Patraeus apologists are taking the defense that the compromised information was insignificant and harmless. I bet that you’ve never heard that arguement before…
“This man has suffered enough in my view,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the former Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
And…
“It’s done, it’s over. He’s retired. He’s lost his job,” Feinstein said. “I mean, how much does government want?”
