Petraeus Reaches Plea Deal Over Giving Classified Data to Lover

[kentuck]

One-time darling of Republicans who wanted him to run for President.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/petraeus-plea-deal-over-giving-classified-data-to-lover.html

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WASHINGTON — David H. Petraeus, the best-known military commander of his generation, has reached a plea deal with the Justice Department and admitted providing his highly classified journals to a mistress when he was the director of the C.I.A.

Mr. Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, a misdemeanor. He is eligible for up to one year in prison but prosecutors will recommend two years of probation and a $40,000 fine.

The plea deal completes a spectacular fall for Mr. Petraeus, a retired four-star general who was once discussed as a possible candidate for vice president or even president. He led the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was the architect of a counterinsurgency strategy that at one time seemed a model for future warfare.

But the deal also ends two years of uncertainty and allows Mr. Petraeus to focus on his lucrative post-government career as a partner in a private equity firm and a worldwide speaker on national security issues. Even while under investigation, he has advised the White House on Iraq and terrorism issues.

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[Stargazer09]

1. If a regular person shared classified stuff like that

That person would be lucky to avoid getting life in prison for treason.

[liberalhistorian]

7. That's what I thought, also.

Why the hell is this treasonous fucker NOT being charged with treason? Any other Joe Schmoe would have been, especially if they were a Democrat.

[TwilightGardener]

2. McCain and Feinstein were begging the DOJ/FBI to drop this, saying he's "suffered

enough"--what say they now? He gave 8 binders full of the most highly-classified shit available to a mistress who wasn't cleared to receive the info, let alone keep it in her apartment for personal browsing, copying, disseminating, trading, selling, etc.--whatever she might have decided to do with it.

[Octafish]

3. A misdemeanor, fine and probable parole without jail for spilling the beans to his mistress.

Yet, Kiriakou spent years in prison for telling the truth about the torture program to the American people.

What a country.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Kiriakou needed some better attorneys

[Rex]

8. Manning the whistleblower rots away in prison, Betrayous the once noble general

at BEST gets an ankle bracelet. But NO, not kabuki theater going on in D.C. politics...NO SIR! So PFC whistleblower = bigtime nasty criminal, famous ex-general = minor criminal.

GOT IT.

[old guy]

4. Not good enough.

This clown belongs behind bars for a long, long time.

[Rex]

6. So why is Manning rotting in prison, but Betrayous gets to walk away a free man?

Our government is such Kabuki theater.

[tabasco]

9. Good thing he didn't have pot plants in his closet

or he'd be a convicted felon.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Or, a pole dancer for a girlfriend.

[R B Garr]

11. Broadwell is a Ringknocker as a West Point graduate and ex-military.

I would bet that played into the sentencing. It was bad judgment, yes, but she wasn't an unvetted person to the Brass and the other Ringknockers who decided this case.

[malaise]

12. Why I'm still shocked is a shock