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FBI Agents Raid Paula Broadwell's Home
FBI confirms to @WSOC_TV they’re inside the house, but won’t say why. I’m seeing 6 agents with cameras and lots of boxes.
FBI agents have been inside Paula Broadwell’s Dilworth home for about an hour now. About a dozen there, with bags/boxes, taking pics @wcnc
Also, several neighbours say this is definitely the first time anything like this has happened at Paula Broadwell’s home. No previous raid.
FBI agents have been looking inside cabinets & snapping photos in carport of Paula Broadwell’s Charlotte home. @wcnc
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Anybody live in the Charlotte area and can give us updates?
Dayam, Ms. Ellie…! It’s getting curiouser and curiouser…! Pass the popcorn…! ;-)
Petraeus hoped affair would stay secret and he could keep his job as CIA director
want some butter on that?
Der, er Duh.
Hello? Just now?
Ellie, Thank you. People have been speculating for uh since when?
oh my — i’m gonna need more popcorn
I wouldn’t be surprised if she were spying for the Israelis. Keep in mind that I’m just speculating.
Aren’t they a bit late with this? She’s been all over the news as being under investigation for nearly a week and inside the beltway for months. I’m guessing she would have destroyed anything by now.
Maybe she was hoarding classified documents. Maybe she’s a spy for a foreign country?
Definitely calls for popcorn!
I just don’t see the linkage to Israel, VMT…! But, as b at MOA and Marcy do see some serious linkage to our misbegotten ways…! 8-(
I think I’ll skip the Schadenfreude. Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do?
from that link
I sure hope Mrs. Petraeus didn’t eat any of those special meals Paula was making her /s
*heh* Like infilitrating Occupy, per chance…? Gotta keep those fusion centers humming…! ;-)
If that were the case then it wouldnt be on the news. This story would have quitely gone away
per the video (update to the post) this weekend was broadwell’s 40th birthday party and today her house gets searched. bwahahaha
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Hmmm…
Abbe Lowell, now there’s a familiar name around here.
Oh my. I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore.
I want to know who the FBI agent that was first contacted by Kelley, and then why (and how) he contacted Reichel in Seattle, whom then contacted Cantor…!
Hilarious!
Two semi-young MILFs in a catfight over a guy old enough to be their dad.
Screw the FBI. I wanna see Boinkwell’s Playboy spread.
well, it’s nice to know there are no terrorist threats or human traffickers or anything like that left in this country for the FBI to investigate. where betrayus puts his dick is obviously the most important security matter this country has ever faced. let’s increase the FBI budget immediately!
Now, this could be the real reason Betrayus got sacked…
US: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya…
…International law binding on the US and other countries prohibits torture and other ill-treatment in all circumstances, and forbids transferring people to countries in which they face a serious risk of torture or persecution.
“The involvement of many countries in the abuse of Gaddafi’s enemies suggests that the tentacles of the US detention and interrogation program reached far beyond what was previously known,” Pitter said. “The US and other governments that assisted in detainee abuse should offer a full accounting of their role.”
Hmmm…
I don’t know but Reichert was known as a law and order man.
Who knows, maybe they met at a conference back when Reichert was sheriff. He wrote a book on the Green River Killer case (he was on the task force) per wiki
Read up. She was passing info at least to Faux.
FBI Agent in Petraeus Case Under Scrutiny :
I blame Anthony Wiener.
This story just gets more and more odd. And moving quickly too. I can’t rally form a solid opinion/feel yet since it’s so fluid.
But it sure is compelling! Watching MSNBC, evidently Broadwell’s house is quite near to Rielle Hunter’s house. Go figure…
per Jeff Smith @TVsJeffSmith
The FBI had keys and No, Broadwell is not in custody
The internet has spawned a whole new sexual revolution!
Dang, Loose
DicksLips do sink ships…! ;-)I think I’m with you!
Paula’s arms are much more sculpted than Michelle Obama’s. Really nicely sculpted. She and Daddy P4 must have worked out together.
Rove is as deep in this as he was in the Libby fiasco.
The FBI should raid Cantor and Rove.
As Glenzilla pointed out rather succinctly (er, well, Glenn is never succinct), Petraeus is being treated by the media much more reverentially than other high profile political figures who have gotten themselves into a sex scandal.
oh my
ROTFLMAO!
From Friday mid day when I first heard about this mess, I immediately went all spooks on it.
AIPAC mole, deep embed. She was an intelligence officer for USA in her status with military, active or reservist, I forget.
Keep in mind, I too am WILDLY speculating, but Benghazi and blown covers and more all jumped together with their uncovered affair.
There’s just too much high profile stuff going on here, or getting involved . . . . this is spooks stuff, whether she was a mole or not.
Smiley’s People or MI-5 (aka Spooks in UK) coulda used a plot this thick and juicy!
Why didn’t Cantor let the dogs out earlier when O could have been damaged pre-election?
I”m guessing her place has been raided often, before and after affair, by CIA and FBI.
This is getting juicy, but this raid smacks of ‘kabuki’ to me.
It’s all for show, perhaps. Cuz if not, and they haven’t raided her place with all they knew by what, May or June?
Nah, I’m not buyin into this raid as a first one, or one that’s gonna ‘discover’ anything but a well scripted psy ops bout of deniability and fabricated woven threads to deceive the masses.
Spooks! This is how they roll . . .
Behrnard and Marcy are good.
B especially, has read a lot into this mess.
And he’s NOT ruling out spooks, by any means.
;-)
Masoninblue was on that case, I think.
ain’t that the truth
I’m surprised at this point brakes haven’t failed or someone came down with a deadly viral infection of unknown sourcing.
Watch out for them umbrelly tips!
Kids, let this be a lesson. Do not send e-mails. Send letters through the US Mail. But Jill and her twin sister Natalie are putting the pensioms of numerous government officials into jeopardy.
Natalie worked for the Bushies. And is a Whistleblower, same as that sculpted and shirtless FBI investigator.
Not necessarily. Lots of things could be in play and it would STILL be spooks massaging it all.
Easily.
Hell, we STILL don’t know what happened to them nukes from Minot that went missing a few years back . . . ;-)
And like the Minot story, I’m waiting for a list of suddenly deceased or disappeared people closely connected to the non story’s . . . ;-)
Yeah, that chain of command has some SERIOUS breaches of process thru it, big enuff to drive a drone thru.
I read that before all this came out, Broadwell had a speaking engagement in which she said that the CIA was holding “terrorists” in Benghazi and that was the reason for the attacks on the embassy compound.
That surely got a spike on the CIA’s Richter scale.
Yeah, a few folks have written about Benghazi, the role of ‘prisoners’ there, the role of who IMPRISONED them, how they might have been tortured there, despite Obama’s decree that the CIA would not staff or run prisons or torture on foreign soil.
Simple enuff just to contract that shit out, which we’re pretty sure has already been done for a while now.
LOTS of spooks like stuff, internal affairs type alone, to go round in this mess.
I still don’t discount, and would definitely suspect, foreign involvement in our own spooks systems . . . deep moles, not so deep moles.
We’ll see.
There’s a video of her saying that. She’s addressing some group of warmongers in Colorado, IIRC.
Supposedly, the conjecture I’ve seen is she GOT the info from Faux News and used it immediately in her speech . . . I’ve not read where SHE gave Faux News the nooze . . .
Here’s another local news report
Lil typo, I fixed it fer yas . . . ;-)
And Larue’s as right as a snake. If there’s more to this than just Petraeus’s wandering dick and Broadwell’s jealousy, it’ll be hard to keep a lid on it.
But you can bet they’ll try.
It was too cool listening to Diane Feinstein walking back her original statement that Obama shouldn’t have accepted Petraeus’ resignation…as if he could continue as head spook after this…liability…especially considering that it looks like Broadwell had classified information on her computer.
And there are bound to be some good jokes going around D.C. If anyone hears them, please share. :o)
It’s messy, dirty, juicy as all get out.
I’ve said my thots, there’s PLENTY OF ROOM for idle speculation at this point. ;-)
NICE catch on the Rielle Hunter location!
Irony thy name is soiled panties!
“…some group of warmongers…”
Too true…
And, extra-curricular fucking by two super-patriots is just good, clean, fun.
As opposed to Bill Clinton’s satanic blowjobs.
I just hope that Kelly turns out to be another score for Petraeus. The more the merrier.
She sure lawyered up in a hurry. :o)
Nice thot on the Rove/Cantor connection.
I got’s to admit, the FBI agent who went to Reichart has got some serious ‘splainin to do, and so do his supes.
Cuz that shit’s politicized as all HAYALL to get out.
FBI v CIA, CIA v White House, covered up gun running as a cover for imprisoned suspected terrorists being tortured at Benghazi, a biographer who did grad work and then reserve duty on intelligence matters having an affair supposedly that grew out of a strictly professional relationship with the former Commander of Iraqi/Afghani affairs, who got booted by Obama to head up CIA to choke off his GOP presidential aspirations . . .
All that’s missing is some Mossad linkage . . . Broadwell, deep mole for AIPAC.
Coincedence she did her school and military work as she did, and glommed close to Petreaus?
Yep, I smell NEOCON, ROVE, AIPAC all OVER this one.
Wonder why? I do.
I’m sure you all are regular visitors to Dependable Renegade, but in case you missed it
Here’s a gem from twolf
Yep. N it’s hard to know WHY she would say that in a public speaking engagement . . .
If she’s that naive after her time as a student and practitioner of military intelligence, well, her stoopid woulda stopped her LONG ago.
So she’s not stoopid, I don’t think.
Ego? Need to impress as a wanna be insider? Nah, see stoopid, same thing.
DIRECTED to out this info (of did she get it FROM Fox Nooze)? By handlers? Be they WH or CIA or FBI or NEOCONS, it stinks of her being DIRECTED to out this info . . . with plausible deniability that Fox News had it before she outed it . . .
So, who’s she working for? Has she been flipped as an asset more times than she was in bed?
N the Jill n Natalie family friends of Petreaus’.
Just how DOES one, and why, become a social liasion to the militiary at that level? Without being PAID to do it? What’s the quid pro quo? What’s the cui bono? Who’s the REAL cui boner? ;-)
since we are speculating wildly
Dianne Gallagher @DianneG
Affairs are painful especially when they involve our beloved and cherished leaders. Callista Gingrich Haz A Sad. Yes, because she feels the pain of the General and his many women.
Who better to ask? Callista is an expert on infidelity.
Yeah, it’s well established, indeed.
I’m still not clear if she or Fox News were first on the timeline for this one.
Either way, she’s not stupid, or fully ego driven . . . she had to have been directed to say this . . . imagine being a mole, getting caught, and being flipped, then pressured from both FBI, CIA, WH, and whoever the original handlers were (Neocons/Israeli’s).
Wow. No pressure gal . . .
Yeah, I ’bout did a Happy Dance watching SciFI get beyotch slapped by someone to walk her shit back.
I didn’t vote for her, but too many other CA fools did, so she’s baccckkkk, sadly.
I don’t think social liasion means what she thinks it means, honorary or not . . .
In other admins, they were simply madams who provided girls to the WH, or where ever they were needed.
;-)
I had to go to the hospital cause I split my side wide open when I heard that.
I’ve not been around there for ages.
That was brilliant, glad to see TWolf still has chops worthy of Drifty or DarkBlack . . . this stuff is MADE for their genuis.
Thanks for the share, LOVED it!
I read somewhere that betrayus was sending emails begging her to come back. Then I read elsewhere that he broke it off. I tend to think that the first scenario is more likely. Also, why would she be sending threating emails to the other other woman for no reason? I haven’t seen anything about the fbi agent connection, but I did see that cantor knew about this a couple of months ago, but kept it quiet. This is quite tangled. I can think of so many threads that could come out of this.
Good observation. You are probably correct.
NYT
Today it’s reported that Broadwell started sending the ‘back off’ emails to the other other woman, who told Petraeus, and at that point he broke it off with Broadwell.
High School. Sounds like high school. geez.
Have not read ANY of that, thanks!
Wow, what a clusterphuck.
Blows my deep cover mole theory all to hell, NO ONE could run a script like this cept Marx Brothers, perhaps.
‘xackly
new Marcy
Scandal Surge: The Mid-Summer Adjustment
Seems like the relationship between Petraus and Broadwell has been going on for a while. But the funniest thing about it is that unlike the military, where adultery is forbidden,
. Does that mean that the CIA has some kind of ‘fornication files’ in order to keep track of its agent’s affairs? And do they require agents to make spouses/partners (gay ones, too?) sign affidavits saying they’ve been told, etc? Our tax dollars at work.
I bet both political parties are covering-up the fact that Obama has continued the Bush rendition program in Libya. The Obama administration claims it ended the program. This is why Cantor and the Republicans refused to publicly disclose the scandal before the election. Just a hunch! Am I crazy? Do I need to take my meds? ;-)
Justin Raimondo isn’t so sure:
I’m looking at this more as a bright, shiny object.
this sounds like a case for old pal TRex!
Grinning ear to ear as I read thru Justin’s piece at AW dot com.
There is the Israeli/AIPAC/MOSSAD/LIKUD linky.
Now the question is, how deep was Broadwell, and who else (hint: Kelly Sisters) were being run by AIPAC . . . and for how long.
I mean, social liaison to US CENTCOM? Screams a madam service, which would beg for a mole or two, and assets galore to be converted to providing inside info as to US Policy, domestic and foreign.
I’ve been a bit ahead of the game, with my speculations, but the the deep cover mole thing never left me alone, it screamed at me.
And I just couldn’t see China, Russia, India, Britain or anyone else running this game.
NEOCONS, total AIPAC toadies of the GOP, and of course, our DEMS with all them weapons contracts (Hello Diane Feinstein and Mr Blum), Pelosi too . . . LOTS of profiteering at hand and at risk of being exposed . . . this could blow up every senator and representative and lobbyist.
Oh and what a TREAT that would be. They are all running for shadows to get out of THIS light.
What a story, perhaps the biggest spooks fuck up ever poised to bring down an entire system of governance thru the exposure of all the parties involved.
Smiley’s People and MI-5 could not have writ this script.
*G*
No, but Cantor had the balls of Obama in his hands, ready to blow the erection up fully, and he failed to tug that last one tug.
Why?
Cuz, outing Obama and the Benghazi rendition/torture thang would implicate the GOP as much as the Dems. Lose/Lose.
Best. Spooks. Script. Evah.
This one has spooks, sex (lots of sex I’ll bet being supplied to US CENTCOM, FL by the Kelley’s), politics and the only thing that’s hard to explain is how these continuing revelations (lies, spin, smoke, mirrors, kabuki) impact the corporate fascists.
I mean, it blows up the neocons, and a half a hundred other very important agencies and peoples, but it lacks the punch to take out the corporate fascists and the billionaires, who PULL the levers on these things with their fundings.
Where will AEI and Heritage Foundation and a billion others come out of all of this?
There’s nothing strange about that. It’s far more important to prevent blackmail leverage against spies.
Sheriff Dave Reichert’s nickname back in the day: “hairspray.”
Thanks, everyone; this comment stream has been a serious rock ‘n roll read.
@ ET: damn; thanks for the reminder to go see what Justin Raimondo has to say.
@ C-S: Petraeus’s nickname is ‘Peaches’; go figure.
@ LaRue: rollicking fun.
@ Elliot: the FBI search at Broadwell’s reminded me of the ones done at Achmed Chalabi’s house and office. Great photo-op ass-covering. Then the US kept bringing him back for more in Iraq. No Good Guys/Bad Guys any more at these levels, just Useful/Not Useful.
Thank you, Elliott. As per other comments I remember an explanation involving prisoners for the Benghazi attacks that made sense – it was on counterpunch.org a while back. I have a feeling a coverup is being orchestrated because of your final bold. This has the feel of Watergate, only much much bigger, being an international matter, and the question is, will there be those now in government who will step forward, or is it time for international bodies to bring the world’s attention to these matters, and can they? Or can the wool be pulled further over everyone’s eyes this time around? Maybe history repeats in that Libya was where it all fell apart for the Nazi empirical ambitions in the Middle East as well.
This has nothing to do with sex, people. It may even have nothing to do with oil. This has to do with the hasty and illegal invasion of Libya and silencing of Ghaddaffi, our former accomplice. That begins to resemble Nixon’s Cuban plumbers writ large.
Gerald Ford and Biden sort of do resemble one another, wouldn’t you say? I’ll take him over what we’ve got, though, so let the unravelling begin. Time for the truth.
Whatever might be, for lack of better word, underneath this whole ‘affair’ thing, I have to say that my heart goes out to Petraeus’ wife, Holly. I am not sure what their history is, but I am not so sure I would make great efforts to salvage a marriage, under these extremely publicized circumstances.
She deserves better than this.
CS, you just don’t understand, with the very existence of the state of Israel is at risk, a single marriage is small price to pay for the continuing ability of AIPAC/Mossad to gain vital inside information concerning the plans of America’s top decision-makers.
/snk>
See that, good point!
You are not crazy. Look at the big shinies even our beloved David Dayen is presenting – in order to propound the idea that this is all about surveillance. This is not all about surveillance. And on the proposition of both parties hiding something until after the election, the Nation has finally presented an article written before the election which might bolster your and my suspicions:
http://www.thenation.com/article/170812/americas-historical-amnesia-over-libya#
Very interesting I think…As the dau of the commander, or whatever her dad was when she met Pet, she is used to military arrogance, respect, etc. and wanted in herself. Not to say she wanted what she got, but I suspect, per Military spouses I have known, that she welcomes all the privilege and aura of power that goes with the military power structure that itself is sham.
Bingo, RevBev. It equals: complicity, looking the other way does…