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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Petraeus mistress loses security clearance

2012-11-16

[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Paula Broadwell, the woman at the center of the scandal that felled former CIA director David Petraeus, has been stripped of her security clearance amid an FBI investigation, CNN said Wednesday.

The military clearance allowed Broadwell, a major in the US army reserve and a graduate of the West Point military academy, to have access to some classified US government documents.

FBI agents searched her North Carolina home this week and seized several boxes of documents. US media reports said her computer contained classified material, but no official has yet suggested that she will face charges.

Posted by:Fred

#8 "I am the DCI's hoochie mama"

Hold on ... I can almost see the name of a future Internet dating site :-)

Posted by: Raider 2012-11-16 22:14

#7 Can't is clearly false. Shouldn't, for sure. And yes, they both have been arrogant, sloppy etc. I'm furious and deeply mourning the dry rot throughout large parts of the military leadership, of which this is only the latest and most dramatic example.

Posted by: lotp 2012-11-16 20:28

#6 Right, but you still can't take stuff home. Further, you'd think it would have crossed her mind: "I am the DCI's hoochie mama. Any mistake I make could have major unforseeable consequences. I had better be especially careful." I mean, they shouldn't have gone there at all, but that an MI officer and the DCI displayed such a mind-boggling lack of paranoia is frankly the most inexcusable aspect.

Posted by: RandomJD 2012-11-16 20:15

#5 RandomJD, she was apparently an Army reserve MI officer, which would give her access to some classified info apart from her relationship w/ Petraeus, at least when activated.

Posted by: lotp 2012-11-16 19:40

#4 Geee, ya think?

Posted by: Raider 2012-11-16 18:54

#3 Hard to understand what she was up to with the classified info. Might have been just a conceit - perhaps having certain "special privileges" made her feel free to take other liberties as well. I think she'll tell the truth. She's cooperated the whole way, and besides, it's all she has left.

Posted by: RandomJD 2012-11-16 14:29

#2 Her access was likely suspended by the Central Clearance Facility (CCF) pending the outcome of the investigation. Broadwell is no longer the government's target. The target is now the parties who gave her the classified documents and whom did she pass them along to?

A great deal of pressure will be applied to this young lady during the discovery process. It will be interesting to see how she holds up and what other parties may be revealed.

Posted by: Besoeker 2012-11-16 05:40

#1 Or, as Fark.com put it:

Now that the barn door's been left open, the horse escaped, the barn burned down, the burnt wreckage washed away in a flood, and the horse drowned in the swollen river, Army officials think to remove Paula Broadwell's security clearance.

Posted by: Lone Ranger 2012-11-16 00:46

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