PETRAEUS APOLOGIZES FOR GIVING CLASSIFIED INFO TO MISTRESS

[Lite Beer]

PETRAEUS APOLOGIZES FOR GIVING CLASSIFIED INFO TO MISTRESS
BY DEB RIECHMANN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus is apologizing again for sharing classified information with his biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell, in his first time testifying publicly before Congress since resigning as CIA director.

Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that he made a "serious mistake" four years ago that brought "discredit and pain" to those closest to him. He says he violated the public's trust and breached his own values.

Petraeus retired in 2011 after commanding U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was CIA director from September 2011 to November 2012, when he resigned after acknowledging an affair with Broadwell.

He was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $100,000 for unauthorized removal and retention of classified information he shared with Broadwell, and apologized.

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-09-22

[Scott]

Off-topic posts removed.

[up-country_sinclair]

I'm still stunned by how this ended. 30 years ago he would have been facing a long prison term.

[elgordo38]

I'm still stunned by how this ended. 30 years ago he would have been facing a long prison term.

Its elitism at best. A grunt would have received decades of incarceration and then been drummed out of the corp instead of this turkey gets a pension and a $100,000 slap on the wrist.

[Neurath]

Shouldn't be too harsh on him. After all, the information was released in Pubic Interest.

[JakeSully]

And republicans are already wanting Obama to pardon him. It is all over Geraldo.

[connda]

I'm sure Manning and Snowden are too. Perhaps they should let 'Chelsea' out of Levenworth seeing that Petraeus will never see the inside of a prison. Double-standards for the elites.

Edited September 23, 2015 by connda