“The
collapse of the impressive career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus,” reports
the Washington Post, “was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an
affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to
three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.
“The
recipient of the e-mails was so frightened that she went to the FBI for
protection and help tracking down the sender, according to the officials. The
FBI investigation traced the threats to Paula Broadwell, a former military
officer and a Petraeus biographer, and uncovered explicit e-mails between
Broadwell and Petraeus, the officials said.”
“The
identity of the woman who complained about the harassing messages from Ms. Broadwell
has not been disclosed,” adds the New York Times. “She was not a family member
or in the government, the officials said, and the nature of her relationship
with Mr. Petraeus was not immediately known. But they said the two women seemed
be competing for Mr. Petraeus’s loyalty, if not his affection.”
The
whole affair confirms observation over decades that it is rarely the womanizers
who get caught up in such fiascos. They know how to cover their tracks.
Experienced as Gen. Petraeus may have been with counter-insurgency, nothing
could prepare him for what can happen in the wake of a woman scorned.
Sad.
Update:
The Times offers details on the life of Ms. Broadwell as an extremely competitive
high achiever who took $20,000 from Jon Stewart in a push-up contest while
promoting her book.
She
should have quit when she was ahead.
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