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The Petraeus scandal is a series of events that garnered strong media attention when an extramarital affair between retired four-star general and then-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell became public information. Petraeus had chosen Broadwell to be his official biographer.
[47] [48] The extra-marital affair was revealed in early November 2012 and was cited by Petraeus as the reason for his resignation on 9 November. [3] [49] When the news of the scandal became public, Broadwell spent time secluded in Washington, D.C., (at the home of her brother, Stephen Kranz) away from her husband and family.
Obama accepted his resignation on 9 November, [204] and Petraeus cited his affair when announcing that same day that he would resign as CIA Director. [205] Eventually, Petraeus pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling the classified information that he provided to his mistress and biographer. [22]
Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced Thursday to two years' probation.
Paula Broadwell said she was surprised to learn retired Gen. David Petraeus was under consideration ... while writing his biography, ... since the revelations of the affair in 2012 made her a ...
News of events related to the scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus and the former CIA director's affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, reminds us that even the powerful and successful ...
All In: The Education of General David Petraeus is the biography of David Petraeus, written by co-authors Paula Broadwell and Vernon Loeb. [1] The books were released on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, it reached No. 33 on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2012.
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