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Was She Worth It? Meet Paula Broadwell, The Military Mistress Who Brought Down CIA Chief David Petraeus And Ended His Career

Power of that P… Paula Broadwell Is David Petraeus’ Mistress CIA Director David Petraeus’ steamy extramarital affair led to his shocking resignation. The four star general-turned spy chief, 60, had an illicit relationship with the married Paula Broadwell during which he sent her a barrage of explicit emails including explicit ones about having “sex under the desk.” According to RadarOnline reports: Broadwell served for more than a decade in the U.S. Army, earning the rank of Major. Department of Defense and CIA jobs followed. She then received her Masters degree at Harvard, and began competing in Ironman triathlons She became a researcher at Harvard and first met Petraeus six years ago when she was a researcher at Harvard pursuing her PhD, and he came to speak at the university. With her radiologist husband, Scott, she has two young sons, Lucien and Landon. “As a working mother of two, I realize it is more difficult to compete in certain areas. I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important,” she said earlier this year. Broadwell become involved with Petraeus when she took on the project of researching him. When he went to Afghanistan as head of the coalition’s efforts she was embedded with him for a year, between July 2010 and 2011. She reportedly broke off the affair after he became CIA chief on September 5, 2011. Her biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, was published in February. Their romance was uncovered by accident six months ago when the FBI began an investigation into whether a computer used by Petraeus had been compromised. After stepping down from his post on Friday, Petraeus released a statement in which he apologized for his actions. Petraeus worked closely with his mistress and she even had close encounters with his wife…. DAMN! The akward moment when your side ho is sitting with your main chick. He had to have known he was going to get caught up. Check out more photos of the military mistress below, was she worth it? Paula Broadwell/AP

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Was She Worth It? Meet Paula Broadwell, The Military Mistress Who Brought Down CIA Chief David Petraeus And Ended His Career

Jeremy Scahill Testifies Before Congress on America’s Secret Wars

Nation national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill today testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the US's shadow wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. His complete testimony is below. My name is Jeremy Scahill. I am the National Security correspondent for The Nation magazine. I recently returned from a two-week unembedded reporting trip to Afghanistan. I would like to thank the Chairman and the Committee for inviting me to participate in this important hearing. As we sit here today in Washington, across the globe the United States is engaged in multiple wars. Some, like those in Afghanistan and Iraq, are well known to the US public and to the Congress. They are covered in the media and are subject to Congressional review. Despite the perception that we know what is happening in Afghanistan, what is rarely discussed in any depth in Congress or the media is the vast number of innocent Afghan civilians that are being killed on a regular basis in US night raids and the heavy bombing that has been reinstated by General David Petraeus. I saw the impact of these civilian deaths first-hand and I can say that in some cases our own actions are helping to increase the strength and expand the size of the Taliban and the broader insurgency in Afghanistan. Read Full Testimony: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/12/jeremy-scahill-testifies-be… added by: GLOBALPOLITICAL

Media Praise Obama’s ‘Brilliant’ Decision to Fire Gen. McChrystal

President Obama’s decision to relieve General Stanley McChrystal of command in Afghanistan and replace him with General David Petraeus was met with a chorus of praise in the media, as anchors and pundits on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN all sang in unison that it was a “brilliant” move.   During live special coverage leading up to the announcement in the 1PM ET hour on CBS, White House correspondent Chip Reid proclaimed: “it sounds like a pretty brilliant decision really.” At the same time on NBC, correspondent Jim Miklaszewski described it as a “stunning development” and added “at a quick glance, almost brilliant .” Minutes later, White House correspondent Chuck Todd declared: “politically, in this town, it’s going to be seen as a brilliant choice by the President.” Over on CNN, moments after Obama finished speaking, anchor Wolf Blitzer remarked that it was a “major moment for this president” and later observed: “a very brilliant move to tap General Petraeus.” Finally, in the 2PM ET hour on MSNBC, Meet the Press host David Gregory concluded: “I think he took swift and decisive action. I think that’s how it’s going to be read.” In addition to cheering Obama’s brilliance, another common theme in the media reaction was to assert the President’s decision would be immune from criticism. Reid explained: “So the President avoids both the criticisms here, number one, putting somebody new in charge and, number two, since he fired McChrystal, he’s not going to be accused of being weak.”  Miklaszewski noted: “this may quiet some of the critics up on Capitol Hill.” Todd later added: “…you will not hear a single word from Capitol Hill, no Republican will dare say a negative thing about this decision.”

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Media Praise Obama’s ‘Brilliant’ Decision to Fire Gen. McChrystal