"Petraeus Says U.S. Tried to Avoid Tipping Off Terrorists After Libya Attack."

Here 's the NYT article to pick through. At some point in the process — [David] Petraeus told lawmakers he was not sure where — objectio...

Who changed the CIA's Benghazi talking points?

The question emerges from Petraeus's testimony today: "The original talking points were much more specific about Al Qaeda involveme...

"The Real Reason You Should Care About the Petraeus Affair: Privacy."

"If the CIA director couldn't keep his emails secret, neither can you." "Now everything is kept in the cloud on Google an...

"Fred is a passionate kind of guy."

"He’s kind of an obsessive type. If he locked his teeth onto something, he’d be a bulldog." Fred = Frederick W. Humphries II, the ...

How do you get the position of "social liaison" in the U.S. military?

Well, it's just not actually a position. It seems that Jill Kelley, the other other woman in the unfolding Petraeus scandal, acquired t...

What Petraeus needs to do to get his reputation back.

This is a topic for brainstorming. Meade and I are talking about it after reading a provocative comment in the "Did Petraeus lie" ...

Obama is about to do his first full-scale news conference since last March.

Which was back when Rick Santorum seemed like he might get the GOP nomination and 2 months before Obama did his first campaign rally . He ha...

Did Petraeus lie to the House Intelligence Committee in the hope of keeping his job?

And did the Obama administration take advantage of that hope then oust him when the election was over? That's what Charles Krauthammer t...

"Both Gen. David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen intervened in the same nasty child custody battle involving Natalie Khawam..."

"... the 'psychologically unstable' twin sister of Jill Kelley, whose bombshell claims of being threatened by Petraeus' lov...

"ABC Denver misnames Petraeus book, 'All up in my snatch.'"

Oh, well ... it would actually be an appropriate name for the book.

"Petraeus And Lover Used An Email Trick Used By Terrorists To Keep Affair Secret."

"The CIA director and his biographer had a shared Gmail account and wrote some of their personal missives as draft emails, which were l...

Petraeusgate drags in Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

"According to a senior U.S. defense official..." ... the FBI has uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 documents — most of them e-ma...

"Now, I don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually, um, had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner..."

"... and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that's still being vetted...

Paula Broadwell to Jill Kelley: “back off,” “stay away from my guy,” and “I know what you did."

The soap opera plot thickens.

"FBI agents investigating CIA Director David Petraeus's affair were shocked when told by bureau officials..."

"... that despite the national security implications, no action would be taken on their findings until after the presidential election:...

About David Petraeus: "The man falls in love with... himself!"

That's what I wrote , when I first saw that the man's love interest was the woman who wrote a fawning biography about him. It remind...

The FBI investigation that felled Petraeus "started with two women."

The NYT reports that "began with a complaint several months ago about 'harassing' e-mails sent by Paula Broadwell, Mr. Petraeu...

Petraeus is "an absolutely necessary witness."

Says House Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Representative Peter King.

"Your wife is having an affair with a person you happen to respect. Why would that last detail change the way you respond to her cheating?"

"Do you admire this man so much that you haven’t asked your wife why she keeps having sex with him? I halfway suspect you’re writing th...

Petraeus fell because of the affair, the drone program, or Benghazi — which is it?

"Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus resigned after a probe into whether someone else was using his email led to the di...