Showing posts with label Petraeus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petraeus. Show all posts

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Snowden says Petraeus disclosed ‘far more highly classified information than I ever did’

Edward Snowden says in a new, exclusive interview that former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus — under consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state — disclosed "information that was far more highly classified than I ever did" and yet never "spent a single day in jail."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-snowden-says-petraeus-disclosed-far-more-highly-classified-information-than-i-ever-did-115212222.html

Thursday, December 8, 2016

CNN: Petraeus will have to notify his probation officer if Trump taps him as secretary of state

If President-elect Donald Trump taps former Gen. David Petraeus to be his secretary of state, Petraeus has three days to notify his parole officer about his new job. He also needs to tell the probation officer before he leaves North Carolina — and his work travel would have to be approved by his parole officer, too.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/30/politics/david-petraeus-donald-trump-secretary-of-state-probation-officer/index.html

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Trump Considers Petraeus for Top Job, But His Security Violations Were Worse Than Clinton's

After months of attacking and threatening to jail Hillary Clinton for allegedly mishandling classified information, President-elect Donald Trump has apparently decided none of that stuff really matters. Trump is meeting today with retired general and former CIA director David Petraeus to consider him for Clinton's former job as Secretary of State. Petraeus pleaded guilty last year to sharing classified information with his mistress in a case that was more serious than the Clinton email server episode....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/heres-how-much-worse-david-petraeus-security-violations-were-hillary-clintons


Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Quote of the Day: Guy Who Passed Classified Information to His Mistress Would Be "Spectacular" Choice for Secretary of State

Charles Krauthammer is excited that Mitt Romney and Rudy Giulani might not be the only men in the running for Secretary of State:

"But I do think we should keep our eye on a third possibility....and that would be David Petraeus, who to the world represents America at its strongest and most decisive. He is the guy who saved the Iraq War, and is a man who has written and thought deeply about the new kind of warfare that we are involved in. And that, I think, would be a spectacular choice."

Krauthammer, of course, was part of the chorus claiming that Hillary Clinton had betrayed the republic as Secretary of State because she occasionally discussed the administration's drone program over unclassified email. The emails were all carefully worded; there weren't very many of them; everything in them had almost certainly been widely reported already; there's no evidence that anyone ever hacked them; and James Comey said clearly that it wasn't even a close call to determine that Clinton had done nothing illegal. Nonetheless, she had endangered the country and was obviously unfit to hold office....http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/quote-day-guy-who-passed-classified-information-his-mistress-would-be-spectacular


Saturday, October 29, 2016

FBI director James Comey says Donald Trump has it flipped; Petraeus case was worse than Clinton's

Donald Trump has declared repeatedly that Hillary Clinton should be imprisoned over her email. Emails on her unsecured personal email server were found to have contained classified information despite her repeated insistence that all the material was unclassified. His evidence: other public officials, including David Petraeus, a former CIA director and a leading general in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been punished for far less. ...

...Trump has made similar comments before, which we’ve looked at in another report. But this time there is more information publicly available about the information practices of both Petreaus and Clinton. ​So we decided to compare the two cases for the Truth-O-Meter....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/18/donald-trump/fbi-director-james-comey-says-donald-trump-has-it-/









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