DIANA WEST: GENERAL PETRAEUS….NO WORRIES
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CNN reports that David Petraeus will make his first public appearance since resigning in multi-varied if only partly limned states of disgrace, all overshadowed by L’Affaire Broadwell. He will deliver a speech this month at a dinner honoring the military.
The brief article cites two “persons” as sources.
Petraeus will attend a March 26 dinner at the University of Southern California, an annual event hosted by the president of the university to honor the military. He was asked a year ago to attend and accepted. He will deliver a speech at the dinner, according to one of the people who spoke with CNN.
That person said Petraeus is not yet ready to announce his future plans.
Person #2:
But the second person, who is equally close to the former Army general, said Petraeus is considering whether to be represented by a speakers bureau for future public speeches, as well as considering potential teaching jobs. That person, who is directly familiar with Petraeus’ thinking said the former director is not concerned about the outcome of a CIA review into his tenure at the agency.
Petraeus resigned from the CIA last year after acknowledging an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
Since then, the CIA inspector general has been conducting a review of his activities, with that review believed to include whether he was involved in releasing classified information to Broadwell.
“He knows he did not release classified information. He is not worried,” the person said.
About anything? Putting his war strategy — nation-building-waste, fraud and abuse wherever his signature COIN strategy has gone — aside, which is not under CIA purview — how about Benghazi? How about lying to Congress about Benghazi — on two occasions? “Worrying,” one would think, if he thought about it. But he doesn’t have to. No one brings it up. Then, of course, there’s the specific case of adultery itself, which led to the investigation into the release of classfied material he’s supposedly not worried about. As I understand military code, Petraeus would find himself in the legal crosshairs if the affair had begun while he was still in the Army, as it may well have.
No worries. Exemptions and free passes abound for the high and mighty, even when they fall.
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