The Downfall of David Petraeus, Love triangle gone wrong?

[stillanerd]

Already covered in the stuff you quoted: "so as not to tip off the groups that the U.S. intelligence community was on their trail". Terrorist groups know the US is after them in general, but you might not want them knowing that you are specifically, now, going after them and (potentially) have sources close to them.

Yeah, that is a good point. Sure, they don't have to be specific about which terrorist group was initially responsible, but it's understandable all the same.

[7thangel]

Well, not quite. Because the obvious question to ask is "if the the Administration purposely withheld information that Al Queda was involved so as to not tip them off, what difference would it have made considering Al Queda already knows we're going after them?" And it doesn't answer the question of who decided to change the talking points from what the CIA originally assessed. Also, if other senior officials were aware of this, why didn't they just tell the Intelligence Committee in the first place? Also, if they already knew security at the consulate was poor, how come no one seemed to do anything to correct this beforehand? Not saying there's a conspiracy, mind you, but it does seem like there's some CYA going on.

it was the CIA that crafted the talking points

as far as the security, the congressional committee denied the admin. request for funds to shore up the security for consulates and embassies

[Iangould]

How the FBI found Broadwell and how she and Petraeus were hiding their messages.

In the Petraeus saga, though, the country's top intelligence officer was betrayed by metadata, seemingly anonymous recordings that internet companies make of when and where someone logged into an email account, a facebook profile or the like. While the FBI was monitoring an email account that was reportedly the source of some harassing emails, it found a series of IP addresses recorded when a user logged in from hotel WiFi networks. By cross-referencing those logins with hotel guest lists, the agency ascertained that Broadwell was the only one who could have logged in.

A second account, in which Broadwell and Petraeus corresponded about their affair by saving messages in the "drafts" folder, was also linked to Broadwell in this way. Ian Goldberg, a computer scientist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, says the important thing to learn from the Petraeus affair is that metadata is at least as, if not more, important than the content of the emails themselves.

[Zero Hunter]

Sounds like Broadwell was just crazy to me. Not something you want in a mistress.

[Professor Moriarty]

SNL had a fled day with the scandal.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...155318932.html