Former CIA Director Petraeus Let Off with a Misdemeanor for ‘Mishandling’ Classified Info, Won’t Do Time

thedailysheeple.com / Melissa Melton / March 4th, 2015

Not that this should really be a surprise to anyone, but retired general and former CIA director David H. Petraeus has reached a deal with federal prosecutors which will allow him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for giving Paula Broadwell, the general’s biographer and former mistress, eight so-called “black books” filled with classified national security info. All felony charges will be dropped.

Although the Justice Department confirmed the affair and information leak in the summer of 2012, they withheld information about it until just after the presidential election. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper was informed late on election day. He later asked Petraeus to step down.

The books were supposedly given to Broadwell, now a United States Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, who previously wrote his biography All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. No classified information was included in the final book.

Curiously, just a month before the affair was announced, Broadwell had given a speech in Denver where she seemed to know a lot of unreleased information on the Benghazi attack.