.The official party line right now is that during the course of an unrelated security investigation, the FBI uncovered emails indicating David Petraeus was having an affair.
Two things seem spectacularly weird about this.
1) How do you end up reading the D/CIA's emails during the course of an unrelated security investigation? This is strange in several directions.. The FBI monitors all emails, specifically those of CIA employees (or anyone else with security clearance). And if there really was an unrelated security investigation, and if somehow it led, incredibly, to the D/CIA's personal email correspondence, why potentially compromise it by needlessly revealing it during the resignation of the D/CIA?
And this is the other thing I dont get.
2) They say the affair unraveled because of damning emails. Am I to believe the biggest single spook on the planet sent *emails* indicating he was having an affair?
"The bulk of the e-mails were believed to be from Petraeus to Paula Broadwell".
Really.
If anyone on earth was aware that every single piece of digital correspondence he had was under ritual examination by the FBI, it was this man. And hes just tip-tapping away on his keyboard, sending this woman love poems?
Im sorry but this all seems terrifically unlikely to me. I believe he had the affair, there is a lot of corollary evidence to support it, unless its all been manufactured after the fact (100% possible). But the spectacular lack of discretion we are being asked to accept blindly seems utterly out of character to the point of brazenly suspicious.
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