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    Petraeus, Allen, Gaouette, Ham: The Benghazi Story The Media Isn't Telling You



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    Published on Nov 16, 2012 by Ben Swann

    Ben Swann takes a look at 3 generals and 1 admiral who have been either caught up in scandal, forced to retire, or demoted since the Benghazi attack
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    Broadwell emails to Kelley more sinister then previously reported


    MATTHEW LYSIAK IN TAMPA, JENNIFER H. CUNNINGHAM IN CHARLOTTE, N.C., BILL HUTCHINSON
    Tuesday, November 20, 2012

    The menacing emails sent by David Petraeus ex-mistress to a Florida socialite promised to make the apparent rival go away¯ and boasted of her friends in high places, the Daily News has learned.

    The notes Paula Broadwell sent to Jill Kelley were far more sinister than previously reported and seemed like the rantings of someone clearly unhinged,¯ a close friend of Kelley told The News Monday.

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    This wasnt just a catfight. Any normal person who got emails like that would have immediately called the police,¯ said the friend.

    She said Kelley read her the emails when she called, panic-stricken and seeking advice in the days before the scandal became a stunning public spectacle and led to Petraeus resignation as CIA director.

    The friend, who did not want to be identified, said Kelley saw the emails as death threats, specifically one in which Broadwell vowed to make you go away.

    SDFL/Splash News Jill Kelley in Tampa last week.

    In other emails, Broadwell, a West Point graduate, touted her military background in a threatening manner and boasted of having powerful¯ friends. This wasnt just a case of cyber-bullying,¯ the friend said. (Kelley) was scared for her life.

    She had reason to be. These emails are the real thing. When she read them to me, I literally had the shivers.

    She told me she was afraid for her life. She was scared,¯ the friend added.

    Broadwell, 37, author of the biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,¯ sent the emails anonymously.

    But Kelley contacted a friend who is an FBI agent, and the bureau soon tracked the menacing missives to Broadwell and then discovered her under-the-desk shenanigans with the Iraq war hero.

    I just wanted to set the record straight that this woman (Broadwell) has serious mental problems. She needs to be behind bars before she hurts someone,¯ the friend said.

    Daniel Coston/Charlotte Observer Scott and Paula Broadwell in happier times.

    The Petraeus scandal grew with the news Kelley exchanged thousands of pages of flirtatious emails with Gen. John Allen, Petraeus successor in Afghanistan, officials said.

    Now, amid a Pentagon probe of Allens conduct, his nomination to be NATOs supreme allied commander in Europe has been put on hold.

    Kelleys friend insisted there was no hanky-panky going on between Kelley, a married mother of three, and Allen, who is also married. She is fiercely dedicated to her family, the friend said of Tampa resident Kelley, who is barred from nearby MacDill Air Force Base, where she was an unpaid social liaison.

    News also broke Monday that Kelleys twin sister, Natalie Khawam, now has on her side high-powered lawyer Gloria Allred, who will hold a press conference in Washington Tuesday.

    Allred sent a press release Monday saying she will explain the truth about who Natalie Khawam really is.¯

    International Security Assistance Force via Getty Images Paula Broadwell with Gen. David Petraeus in 2011.

    As Khawam followed her sisters lead in lawyering up, Broadwell was wishing she never made the leap from Petraeus biographer to bedfellow. Her brother says she is devastated¯ and racked by guilt over the affair that ended the 60-year-old retired four-star generals career and jeopardized his 38-year marriage. Shes been devastated by this, Stephen Kranz told People magazine.

    She is filled with guilt and shame for what shes done.¯

    The revelation of Broadwells regrets came as she bloodied a female news photographers forehead Monday in a confrontation outside the biographers Charlotte, N.C., home.

    Broadwell smacked the photographer with the drivers-side door of her Nissan Pathfinder SUV. Bill Serne/New York Daily News Jill Kelley in her Tampa front yard during birthday party.

    I had my camera and in all the chaos the door slammed and I got hit in the head with the flash,¯ said Nell Redmond, a freelancer for The Associated Press. Redmond suffered a small cut and is not pressing charges.

    Much like the Kelleys, Broadwell is prepping for her own PR campaign Reuters reported she hired a well-known communications firm in Washington.

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    The destruction of ex-King David: Jerusalem Crumbles

    By Richard Cottrell
    Contributing writer for End the Lie

    Petraeus and Broadwell on a plane (Image credit: Steve Hynd/Twitter)


    The schadenfreude presently choking the American media, thicker than the worst Los Angeles smog, is sickening. Day by day the outer layers of King David are steadily peeled away to reveal the small and rather sad human being underneath.

    Note: Don’t forget to read Richard’s latest articles, “Petraeus-Benghazi-Gate: the new Watergate moment that may shatter Obama’s presidency” and General betrayal: the CIA, the murder of Ambassador Stevens and the return of Iran-Contra

    The reduction of the nation’s former most senior field general to the level of a diminished pygmy has no real parallel in US history. Yet this public flaying is much less concerned with Petraeus than the real and present peril to the presidency if the truth about Benghazi should emerge.

    So far the score reads thus: Petraeus, down and out; General John Allen, who wrote more e-mails to the temptress Kelley than there were scrolls in the Alexandrian Library before it was set ablaze, stumbling and probably out. Next in frame is Susan Rice, ambassador to the UN, who finds herself impaled on the Benghazi hook to such an extent that her chances of succeeding Hillary Clinton at the State Department may be disappearing fast.

    Rice was the patsy put up to propagate the official White House/State Department mantra that a mob inflamed by a profane YouTube clip demeaning the prophet of Islam responded by furiously assaulting the consulate in Benghazi.

    In her latest utterances Rice claims that she relied on the most reliable briefings then available. Her ‘briefings’ came from the State Department, so we ask: why was Rice the duck in the shooting gallery, and not the shrinking violet Secretary Hillary Clinton?

    Clinton is of course now tarred with her famous remark that security at the Benghazi consulate was ‘adequate’ to protect ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and his staff, even though at the moment of their deaths the consulate had no security at all.

    Now King David has come out of his corner with the revealing statement that the CIA knew that the assault on the consulate was organized and deliberate and nothing whatsoever to do with the offending YouTube clip. I find this to be the most important slip of the tongue so far in this maze of lies and misleading information. Petraeus seems to be implying that the CIA had foreknowledge of the impending assault.

    If that is true, then the next conclusion, that the CIA had gained foreknowledge from agents on the ground, leads to the famous LIHOP equation. In spook parlance this translates as Let It Happen On Purpose.

    This tactic was often used to infiltrate and manipulate Left-wing urban guerrilla protest movements in Europe in the 1970’s and 80’s. Sleepers planted by the secret services would commonly intercept plots to attack prominent persons and cause explosions, and then quietly look the other way.

    The propaganda harvest from these violent attacks was supposed to shepherd electorates towards the pens of safe Right-wing governments. The ‘years of lead’ coincided with the nervous obsession of NATO and western intelligence that the Cold War was inconveniently petering out, thus placing the entire western security strategy at risk. The violence sweeping Europe – nearly all of it counterfeit – was a political wake up call. [See my new book Gladio, linked below].

    Benghazi has all the appearance of Gladio-style designer terrorism. Undercover agents first penetrate the various factions swarming around the more or less lawless city, discover their intentions, report to superiors, and then sit on their hands in quiet anticipation of the outcome.

    This is one scenario. The second, more sinister explanation allows for deliberate manipulation of terrorist organization to carry out attacks which served western interests.

    Benghazi seems to be pitched somewhere between the two.

    If the CIA had foreknowledge of the attack on the compound then it must have emanated from CIA Special Forces in the city. Perhaps this accounts for another intriguing slip of the tongue from Susan Rice, namely that Ambassador Stevens and his people were protected by a strong force inside the compound.

    According to the official tally of victims, this could only have been the two ex-Navy SEALSs deployed as security contractors. But what of unidentified figures hovering on the fringes?

    Whoever the actors, terrorism always calls for political gains. Petraeus is now being painted as a clueless bungler, plainly uncomfortable in civvies, lost in the usual seas of plotting and conspiracies swirling around Langley. But not too clueless, it seems, to be entirely in the dark concerning events in Benghazi.

    In any event, it would be grossly deficient if the CIA did not have operatives on ground in Benghazi, or the Director was shielded from incoming intelligence, especially as he was regarded by CIA pros as an unwanted organ transplant.

    That Benghazi was the spigot controlling the Libyan Arms for Syria follow-on from Iran-Contra is now indisputable.

    As the guardian of such toxic information, King David calls for controlled demolition like one of those statutes of Lenin after the fall of communism. Thus we now discover that his mistress-hagiographer Paula Broadwell was privy to classified documents, boxes of which she apparently stored at home for consideration at leisure.

    The FBI originally ignored the security risks of the goings-on between the pair, just as they buried all the original reports of the affair. Suddenly the files are active again, which suggests very strongly that both Broadwell and Petraeus might be subpoenaed. What else can explain the sudden switch from cool to red hot?

    Broadwell’s own behaviors may well supply the answer. She simply cannot stop talking. She waltzes around Washington as though she’s just made the grade as a Hollywood movie star, gabbling on endlessly about her next projects and prospects, enough to make the blood of every General of the Army run cold.

    She’s hotter than La Monica and she’s loving it.

    Petraeus is being sold down the river for a host of reasons. He is now an enemy of the state. The Justice Department has important questions to answer about why it concealed information from the president regarding the fact that his personal pick for the CIA had been caught with his trousers down in highly charged political circumstances. Ditto Clinton’s State Department, the FBI and even the CIA itself, although one can imagine that most of Langley was beside itself with glee at the discomfiture and embarrassment of the squatting interloper on agency turf.

    Another echo of Watergate and Iran-Contra: the first reaction of embattled presidents caught up in some scandal is to bluff it out. This time around the incumbent – the man who goes around with a little box of tricks to blow up the world – didn’t get a quiet whisper in his ear concerning the Petraeus high jinks until after the election. This is so transparently ridiculous it is not worth considering, unless of course – a chilling thought – the president is regarded by his minders as a mannequin.

    Jeffrey Archer’s pot-boiler Shall We Tell The President? springs to mind. If the story had come out before the election, it is a moot point whether the Romney campaign might have got a supercharged boost. National security matters generally ring loud alarm bells.

    The entire sex scandal doesn’t make any sense divorced from the events in Benghazi and, for that matter, what is happening now in the White House. The sex romp cover story is not working out. So now Petraeus the fallen hero is painted as a man of immature judgment who gave his floozy confidential documents for bedtime reading. He dished out the army’s second highest honor available to the vamp Kelley in return for her outstanding bravery at the front – giving lavish parties at her Tampa mansion for regiments of top brass.

    The spin machine is working overtime. The plot line is of an infatuated man, honored by the president himself with the privilege of ‘leading America through dark days’ (Obama’s own words) reciprocated by behaving like an over-sexed GI on leave in some steaming Asian fleshpot.

    The problem with the confidential documents’ dirty washing is that it leads directly to the White House. Secrets are big business in a state which makes an industry of creating them. The FBI are speaking quiet, soft talk of going through the files, drumming their fingers until the orders come to either drop the whole business or press the red button.

    Meanwhile the chip-chip briefing continues. Holly Petraeus wonders aloud about ‘other women’, in short, what sort of score her husband might have run up.

    I would not be in the least surprised if another Dark Lady pops up with interesting tales of amour amid the dunes, or wherever. The slow, steady demolition of Petraeus, in order to create a cordon sanitaire around the president, is the chief driving energy of the White House.

    As to the outcome, much depends on John McCain, who has a discomfiting history of blowing hot and cold. He will either come out fighting when the new Congress assembles, determined to uproot an incipient Democrat monarchy, or cave into blandishments of national honor and so forth.

    We need to understand and see much more on the dirty washing front to make a constructive estimate. That includes more revelations from Benghazi.

    At the moment the odds point towards a Watergate-style inquiry. Kicking up such a storm around the personal character and failings of Petraeus may indeed earn, to employ everyday CIA parlance, substantial ‘blow-back.’

    Impeachment of the president, anyone?

    Richard Cottrell is a writer, journalist and former European MP (Conservative). His new book Gladio: NATO’s Dagger At The Heart Of Europe is now available from Progressive Press. You may order it using the link below (or by clicking here – Gladio, NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis):




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    Does Paula Broadwell know the nation’s security secrets?
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    Author Paula Broadwell is pictured discussing her biography of General David Petraeus to Daily Show host Jon Stewart on the Daily Show in New York January 25, 2012.

    By Carol D. Leonnig, Sari Horwitz and Anne Gearan, The Washington Post

    Posted Nov. 22, 2012, at 2:15 p.m.
    Last modified Nov. 22, 2012, at 2:56 p.m.


    A federal investigation of how David H. Petraeus’s biographer obtained numerous classified records is focusing on whether the retired general’s staff gave her sensitive documents at his instruction, according to federal officials familiar with the inquiry.

    Petraeus aides and other high-ranking military officials were often tasked by Petraeus and other top commanders to provide military records and other documents to Paula Broadwell for her work as Petraeus’s biographer, former staff members and other officials told The Washington Post.

    Broadwell, a married Army reservist, frequently visited Petraeus in Afghanistan when he was chief of U.S. Central Command and in charge of the war there. She repeatedly sought records that she said Petraeus wanted her to have, according to the former staff members and officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the inquiry is ongoing.

    The focus on the role of military staff members adds a new chapter to the complicated ethics scandal that led Petraeus to abruptly resign as CIA director on Nov. 9. His affair with Broadwell also has put the personal communication of Marine Gen. John R. Allen, Petraeus’s successor as commander of the Afghan war, under scrutiny by the Pentagon.

    Petraeus and Broadwell have told FBI investigators that Petraeus did not provide her with classified information, law enforcement officials said. Attorneys for the two declined to respond to specific questions for this article, as did Broadwell’s spokeswoman, Dee Dee Myers of the Glover Park Group.

    FBI officials also declined to comment.

    The investigation of the origins of classified material in Broadwell’s possession began in the summer as part of a routine FBI inquiry into harassing emails sent to a woman in Tampa, Fla. The messages warned the woman, socialite Jill Kelley, to stay away from Petraeus and were traced to anonymous accounts set up by Broadwell, according to law enforcement officials involved in the case.

    The investigation uncovered emails between Petraeus and Broadwell that exposed their affair and led to his resignation. The inquiry also turned up questionable emails between Kelley and Allen, who, like Petraeus, had met the Tampa woman while serving at U.S. Central Command, known as Centcom.

    The initial investigation focused on whether Broadwell’s harassment of Kelley constituted a crime. But the early emails showed that the sender had access to detailed schedules for Petraeus and Allen, which raised concern about possible national security violations.

    Broadwell turned over her computer to the FBI in late summer, and agents discovered that it contained low-level classified material. On Nov. 12, the FBI searched her home in Charlotte, N.C. and carried away additional evidence that she had classified documents, law enforcement officials said.

    The documents have been described as sensitive but relatively benign. Officials who have been briefed on them said they were mostly schedules and PowerPoint presentations classified as “secret.”

    In piecing together how Broadwell came to possess the material, FBI investigators have sought to determine whether it was provided by aides to Petraeus when he was head of Centcom in Tampa from 2008 to June 2010 or when he was commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan from July 2010 to July 2011. He resigned from the Army to become CIA director in September 2011.

    Some former Petraeus staff members said in interviews that they were annoyed by and concerned about Broadwell’s requests for information, which sometimes involved sensitive material. At the time, she was working on her book about Petraeus, which was published in January. She also maintained a “top secret” security clearance as an officer in the Army reserves.

    One former Defense Department official said that when staff members at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul questioned Broadwell’s access to certain classified records, she assured them that Petraeus had approved her seeing the material.

    “Even if he did not directly give her classified information, he was allowing his name to be used,” said the former official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter freely. “I would be surprised if anyone would raise a question for anything below ‘top secret.’ ”

    Those close to Petraeus’s inner circle said Broadwell could have easily collected classified briefing materials distributed during meetings that were not supposed to leave the secure facilities where such conferences take place. Because of her unusual status, she probably would not have been subject to search when leaving military offices, they said.

    A former Petraeus associate said Broadwell could have obtained electronic copies of classified material from a little-known internal military research arm that had carte blanche to review and consolidate classified material. The research arm, which was part of Centcom, had a special ability to make electronic copies of sensitive material and transfer it to computer discs. A spokesman at Centcom in Tampa declined to comment.

    Copying and emailing classified material is prohibited except on secure networks. A former colleague of Broadwell’s told The Post last week that he received a disc from Broadwell that contained documents marked “secret,” including schedules for Petraeus and other high-ranking officers and military PowerPoints.

    The level of sensitivity of the records Broadwell obtained is unclear. President Obama said at a news conference last week that he has seen no evidence that the release of these records “in any way would have had a negative impact on our national security.”

    But even low-level classified records typically cannot be kept on someone’s personal computer or in their home.

    “Using Centcom as an example, I can count on one hand the number of people who have clearance to have classified material at their home,” one former Petraeus associate said. “General Petraeus was one.”

    On Nov. 12, FBI agents searched Broadwell’s Charlotte home while she was with her family in Washington. They removed dozens of boxes of records as well as computer discs and multiple central processing units, which store the deeper memories of desktop computers. Broadwell has been cooperating with the investigation.

    Two days after the FBI search at her home, the Army suspended Broadwell’s security clearance.

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    Gen. Allen ‘pushed out’ for top NATO post by White House, source says

    By Ed Henry
    Published February 14, 2013
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    FILE: July 22, 2012: Gen. John Allen, top commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces and U.S. forces in Afghanistan during an interview in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

    Army Gen. John Allen is planning to retire rather than be re-nominated for the powerful post of NATO supreme allied commander-Europe, after White House officials forced him to step aside, a source familiar with the discussions told Fox News on Wednesday.

    The source told Fox that Allen was leery of getting into a confirmation battle that would dig into the embarrassing issue of his emails with Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, but the real reason was the White House power play.

    “He’s out,” the source said. “I know he is retiring. He was pushed out of the door.”

    The official Pentagon announcement is expected soon.

    The source also said White House officials are optimistic that after a contentious battle, former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel will be confirmed shortly as defense secretary, and he can help pick a new person for the post.

    Previously, the White House was thought to be keeping the nomination open while Allen mulled whether to seek the post.

    Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said earlier in the day that he told Allen on Tuesday that Allen needs to take time to decide what is best for him and his family.

    Panetta also said the administration has “tremendous confidence” in Allen.

    President Obama’s first nomination of Allen expired amid an investigation of the emails between Allen and Kelly, who was connected to a scandal involving then-CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus. Allen was cleared in the investigation. But the White House purportedly had to re-nominate Allen for the post.

    Fox News' Justin Fishel contributed to this report.


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