Four-star general David Petraeus was a star on the battlefield, commanding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but his impeccable judgement failed him when he engaged in an extramarital affair with biographer Paula Broadwell that led to his downfall as CIA Director. Celebrated as a scholar and a warrior, the 60-year-old Princeton graduate is admired as much for his intellect as he was his tactical abi…
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…vid Petraeus, titled All In. He said that Paula Broadwell was “very persuasive” and managed to get him to talk about his friend on the phone without having to meet in person. Brig. Gen. James Shelton, 76, said: “She was a beautiful woman, very intelligent and if David would say something she would know what he was talking about. “They were both West Point Academy graduates, that’s what put them…
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…band was no mere radiologist but a special breed known as <<interventional radiologist>>. She would draw out the word <<interventional>> for emphasis.” We know that she can run 6-minute miles and do hundreds of press-ups, that she has 13% body fat and is an ironman triathlete and marathon runner. We know all this because Paula Broadwell has told us. We know that she hosted…
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…osed this because I knew it was a rite of passage for many of his former aids, to kind of get in the inner circle you had to be a runner,” Paula Broadwell said at a lecture in October. Linda Robinson, 58, is a respected former U.S. News and World Report correspondent who specializes in security and the military. She is currently an adjunct senior fellow on foreign policy at the Council on Foreign…
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…ld chronicle her adventures. Another social media no-no occurred when Paula Broadwell posted a picture to her Facebook page of David Petraeus with actress Angelina Jolie, that had been captured at his 7th floor office at CIA headquarters, where only the official agency photographer is allowed. It is believed David Petraeus had given the picture to Paula Broadwell but the break with protocol was un…
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…tra-marital affairs are considered particularly damaging for intelligence officials due to the confidential nature of their work and the risk they could leak national security secrets. David Petraeus, 60, has been married to Holly, née Knowlton, since 1975, after they meet when he was a military cadet at West Point and she was the daughter of the academy’s superintendent. When he was sworn i…
…nt David Petraeus, 60, a famed Iraq and Afghan war, is a general retired from the military in 2011 who went on to lead the CIA. President Barack Obama accepted his resignation from the CIA on November 9, saying David Petraeus had “made our country safer and stronger”, after he admitted having an affair with Paula Broadwell, the author of All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. David Petra…
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…hael Morell rather than David Petraeus now is expected to testify at closed congressional briefings next week on the assault on the consulate in Benghazi, which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. David Petraeus, who turned 60 on Wednesday, has been married for 38 years to Holly Petraeus, whom he met when he was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. She was the…
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than 200 guests who dined on crab cakes and lamb chops. At this year’s Gasparilla festival, where pirate themed floats are driven through Tampa, the Kelley’s hosted military officers from 60 nations to a coalition appreciation party. Tight security surrounded the Kelley’s home during the event. One neighbors complained that it resulted in the street running alongside the Kelley&…
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h after she and her husband were the picture of unity at their daughter’s wedding – three months after David Petraeus’ affair with Paula Broadwell had come to an end. But on November 9, he stepped down from the CIA after the FBI uncovered his relationship with Paula Broadwell. The affair was discovered after Paula Broadwell sent a string of “threatening” emails to military party…
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…CIA chief. Jill Kelley tipped off FBI agents about the affair when she handed over a series of anonymous emails sent by Paula Broadwell warning her to stay away from David Petraeus in the summer. The 37-year-old spoke with her brother, a lawyer, as her name first became linked to the resignation of David Petraeus. David Khawan told the Washington Post his sister telephoned him on Sunday and told…
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…en through a Web site called sugardaddy.com and was spending thousands of dollars per week paying these women <<allowances>> to be at his beck and call.” Sugardaddy.com has more than 1.5 million members and aims to set up rich, older men with young attractive women, so called “sugar babies”. David Simon’s hedge fund tried to have Jason Advocate removed as Linda…
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Junior Bradshaw and Kevin Liverpool have been convicted of plotting to kill British singer Joss Stone. Junior Bradshaw, 32, and Kevin Liverpool, 35, both from Longsight, Manchester, UK, were found guilty of planning to rob and murder Joss Stone at her home in Devon. Both men had travelled to Devon in June 2011 armed with weapons and notes detailing their plans to behead the singer. Kevin Liverpoo…
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David Beckham has announced he will retire from football at the end of this season at the age of 38 after an illustrious 20-year career. The former England captain made 115 appearances for his country and 394 for Manchester United, winning six Premier League titles and the Champions League. David Beckham signed a five-month deal at Paris St-Germain (PSG) in January. “I’m thankful to P…
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e 10-month affair and Petraeus visited him at the White House to hand in his resignation. Barack Obama accepted David Petraeus’ resignation and he stepped down as the head of the CIA on November 9. The scandal later dragged in another general, the U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, after the FBI investigated Jill Kelley’s emails from Paula Broadwell. During the probe, t…
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exchanges as well as the venues in which Dave and his date met. The document detailed his thoughts on the women’s physical appearances, giving each a score out of ten, with some being awarded a 7.0 or 7.5 for their “mixed bag of pictures” on the website. David Merkur has used a spreadsheet to make sure he was able to distinguish between each of the eight women he was dating Arranged in alp…
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ed his arms and officers made him lift up his shirt and lower his trousers to show he had no explosives strapped to his body. There was a very genuine fear that he might be wearing a suicide vest.” AT 8.43 p.m., a SWAT team stormed in, dragging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev out and to the ground. Watertown police chief Edward Deveau said that, at that stage, “he put up no resistance. He knew it was over”….
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David Henneberry, the man who discovered Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding out inside his boat, got choked up when talking about the victims of the deadly blasts. David Henneberry, 66, dismisses claims that he is a national hero, saying that if anything, he is an “incidental hero”. “It makes me feel wonderful that people that are thinking like that, but it is my boat. People lost lives and lost limbs,” Da…
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Fox News chairman Roger Ailes allegedly sent political analyst Kathleen McFarland to Afghanistan to tell then-General David Petraeus that he should run for president in 2012 and that Rupert Murdoch would “bankroll” the campaign. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post obtained recorded conversations between David Petraeus and Kathleen McFarland, a Fox News analyst who flew to Kabul in the spring of 2…
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…has also been revealed as the face of Calvin Klein’s new push up bra in a sexy new video, and what better way to promote it than with the hit Salt-n-Pepa song that goes by the same name. In the 30 second advert, Lara Stone can be seen dancing around in the black underwear that highlights her ample cleavage. Lara Stone and husband David Walliams looked super glamorous together at the screeni…
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…ze for – the circumstances that led me to resign from the CIA and caused such pain for my family, friends and supporters.” David Petraeus has kept a low profile since resigning on November 9, 2012. His lawyer said David Petraeus had spent much of the time with his family. A harassment complaint by Florida socialite Jill Kelley over emails she had received had led the FBI to unmask the…
ok and they would read together and discuss writers into the night. Like Alexandra McNear, Genevieve Cook was attracted by the “mental exhilaration” of his intellect, marveling at how mature he was at 22, but dismayed by his remoteness and wariness about commitment. Needless to say, Barack Obama was as self-obsessed as ever. When Genevieve Cook told him that she loved him, Barack Obama’s response…
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mind instantly did the right thing,” Robert Duffy said. “He didn’t try to be a hero, he didn’t yell.” Instead, David Henneberry dropped off his stepladder, ran inside his house and called 911, Robert Duffy told the Today show. Having followed the rolling news coverage of the manhunt, and with SWAT teams already in his street, David Henneberry knew almost instantly what, or who, he had…
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…y away from the retired general Paula Broadwell, who is married to Dr. Scott Broadwell and has two young sons, has not responded to multiple emails and phone messages. She had planned to celebrate her 40th birthday in Washington this weekend, with many reporters invited. Her husband, Scott Broadwell emailed guests to cancel the party. It is also claimed that Paula Broadwell used David PetraeusR…
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…deal to avoid a package of spending cuts and tax rises known as the “fiscal cliff”. While David Petraeus attempts to focus on Benghazi, Pentagon investigators are also examining as many as 30,000 pages of Gen Allen’s documents. They are said to include extensive communication between the general and Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old, married Florida socialite. The emails are now underst…
