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The story seems to be: Paula Broadwell, brilliant young woman, wants to do a thesis about a brilliant general -- David Petraeus. (AP Photo/file)

People have secrets

BY Dave Ross  on November 12, 2012 @ 8:14 am (Updated: 9:41 am - 11/12/12 )

The story seems to be: Paula Broadwell, a brilliant young woman, wants to do a thesis about a brilliant general David Petraeus. He likes to mentor students, he is intrigued. He asks her to join him for a run to see if she can do a six minute mile.

She talked about that first encounter last January on The Daily Show:

"I thought I'd test him, but he was going to test me. It ended up being kind of a test for both of us since we both ran pretty quickly," said Paula Broadwell.

She passed the test, as she had passed every test: High school valedictorian, all-star basketball team, prom queen, graduated first in her class for fitness at West Point, reaches the rank of major, then goes to Harvard, raises two children, and still competes in the Ironman.

And so she meets him in Afghanistan and they start running on a regular basis:

"When I was in Kabul we would do a lot of interviews on runs. I think for him it was a good distraction from the war," said Broadwell.

And then it develops into more than just running, more than just battlefield buddies.

Their affair might never had been known if this driven woman hadn't apparently become jealous of another woman, Jill Kelley, who she falsely thought was muscling in, and started sending e-mails so threatening Kelley went to the FBI.

And that let to General Petraeus's Google account.

And yet in the end there was no breach of security. Petraeus, as CIA director, was no longer subject to the military's no adultery rule, and when confronted by the director of national intelligence, he resigned.

There will be an investigation over who should have notified whom sooner, but it sounds to me like what we have here is a story as old as the hills: People have secrets. Even heroes.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dave Ross is co-host of The Ross & Burbank Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays 9-Noon) and never too far from the spotlight.
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  • Gate Keeper wrote...
    Nothing to see here folks, move along please
    November 12, 2012 9:14 am
    Right on Dave, and mostly because he was appointed by Barack Hussein O.J. Kardashian Obama there is nothing to see here. Do you suppose he was not asked if there was ANYTHING that could compromise or embarrass the USA or CIA when he took the job and when did BH O.J.KO know about this ? before or after the election? Most of the media in this country has degraded from the 4th estate to 5th columnists IMHO.
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  • Fuego wrote...
    Another example of brilliance
    November 12, 2012 9:17 am
    coming from Dave.
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    All men have a little secret
    November 12, 2012 9:21 am
    And that we have a little weakness for younger beautiful females and that weakness is greater in magnitude for superhero's and President's. The problem is(if you have ever had a top security clearance)a security breach "could" have easily happened. Our enemies have used pretty females since the beginning of time to exploit this "little weakness".
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  • Bubonic33 wrote...
    cheating is bad but....
    November 12, 2012 9:44 am
    Have you seen his wife?!? his life is based on discipline and health. He's a pretty good looking guy. His wife....mmmm not so much. He should stick with the upgrade.
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  • Lonestar wrote...
    Benghazi?
    November 12, 2012 10:07 am
    From Sandy to Gen. Betrayus, isn't it funny how Benghazi keeps getting shoved to the backburner.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    But, everything is OKAY .....isn't it?
    November 12, 2012 11:27 am
    Benghazi is just another administration case of people being inconveniently killed (see Fast and Furious). But if the wizard assures us there is nothing too it. then there is nothing too it.

    The only thing I wonder is what else is expendable there next four years. Where are Woodward and Bernstein when we need them?

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