Pentagon considering demoting Gen. Petraeus

[George Hayduke]

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is reportedly considering retroactively demoting retired General David Petraeus, amid a crackdown on generals who engage in misconduct.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that the Pentagon is in the process of considering the move against Petraeus, who admitted giving classified information to his mistress and biographer before he retired.

The decision now rests with Carter, who is said to be mulling overruling a prior Armyrecommendation that the general should not be demoted.

"The secretary is considering going in a different direction,” a defense official told The Daily Beast, adding that Carter wants to send a message of consistency in his treatment of senior officers who engage in misconduct.

The official said Carter wants to send a message that even officers of Petraeus reputation are not immune to punishment. In November, Carter removed his senior military aide, Lt. Gen. Ron Lewis, for personal misconduct. The case is currently with the Pentagon's inspector general.

"The Department of the Army is still in the process of providing the Secretary with information relevant to former Secretary McHugh's recommendation,” Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told Fox News, referring to former Army Secretary John McHugh who recommended that Pertraeus not be demoted.

“Once the Secretary has an opportunity to consider this information, he will make his decision about next steps, if any, in this matter,” Cook said.

Petraeus was sentenced to two years of probation in April, and given a $100,000 fine for giving Paula Broadwell, with whom he was also having an affair, classified material while she was working on the book about him.

The scandal destroyed the four-star general’s reputation, who had led U.S. forces both in Afghanistan and Iraq.  

With a Ph.D. and a reputation as a thoughtful strategist, Petraeus was brought in by President George W. Bush to command multinational forces in Iraq in 2007, a period when the war began to turn in favor of the U.S.

Petraeus' command coincided with the "surge" of American forces in Iraq and a plan to pay Sunni militias to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq. He resigned from his post as head of CIA in 2012.

--Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[RV ME]

Compare and contrast.

 

On one hand we have a man who spent his entire life in the service of our Country. Won the war in Iraq (and watched Obummer lose the peace), and is considered a brilliant military strategist. Who made a serious error in judgement by allowing his mistress (OK two errors in judgement) to view classified information. He then admitted his mistake and accepted the consequences of his actions. Who is now facing further consequences in order to be made an example.

 

On the other hand we have a woman who has spent her entire self-serving life lying and conniving in order to help only herself. A woman who has shown her version of public service is that the public should serve her. A woman who placed the Country at great risk because she could not allow the public to glimpse what she was doing. A woman who still refuses to take responsibility for her treasonous actions and continues to blame others for her misdeeds.

Petraeus Prosecuted -- Why not Hildabeast?


In was an interesting coincidence that as the Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough III was writing to the heads of the House and Senate Intelligence committees, among others, that Hildbeast Clinton had above-top-secret SAP (Special Access Programs) information on her private email server, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the Daily Beast reports, is preparing to demote Gen. David Petraeus, former CENTCOM commander and CIA chief for mishandling similar SAP information while in uniform.

 

The cases are almost identical, but Petraeus admitted his crime, apologized for it and paid a fine. Now the man who is arguably the most significant American general since World War II, who achieved a victory in Iraq that President Obama threw away, is going to be publicly humiliated and his reputation permanently tarnished. Hildabeast Clinton, meanwhile, whistles past her own graveyard, escaping punishment thus far for exposing our most classified secrets to foreign enemies on an unsecured server in her private residence. As Fox News’ Catherine Herridge noted in her blockbuster report:

 

According to court documents, former CIA Director David Petraeus was prosecuted for sharing intelligence from special access programs with his biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell. At the heart of his prosecution was a non-disclosure agreement where Petraeus agreed to protect these closely held government programs, with the understanding “unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention or negligent handling … could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation.” Clinton signed an identical non-disclosure agreement Jan. 22, 2009.

 

The IG’s letter should place Hildabeast Clinton squarely in violation USC 18 Section 793 of the Espionage Act, which covers “gross negligence” in the handling of such information. Ironically, during her recent debate with Democratic-Socialist Sen, Bernie Sanders, Clinton made a statement that could come back to haunt her and be her political epitaph:” There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail.”

 

Indeed, she should not be too big to jail, for while Petraeus gave his mistress a sneaky peak at information he brought home in his briefcase, Hildabeast placed America’s most secret information on an unsecured server, information that that has no doubt been already obtained by foreign hackers, As Breitbart News has reported:

 

Hildabeast Clinton used the company Internap as the internet service provider for her private email account during her tenure as Secretary of State. Internap, based in Atlanta, has a facility in Manhattan, near the physical location of the IP address for clintonemail.com.

 

In March 2011, the security company RSA was hacked. The hackers got into the company’s system through a malware-infested email sent to an employee, then installed a “backdoor” and stole data. RSA called it “an extremely sophisticated cyber attack.”…

 

Five different “blocks” of Internap hosted services -- which could include websites, email services, and email-storage and cloud services -- were hit in the 2011 attack. A computer expert tells Breitbart News that Internap networks could have been used by the hackers to help it get to RSA or other targets.

 

China was the home source of 299 of the 338 command and control networks that the hackers used to carry out the attacks, according to an analysis at the time by cyber security expert Brian Krebbs.

 

This is a mindboggling breach of national security, one that puts overseas operations and American lives at risk. Of course, the Clintons have a history of playing fast and loose with American secrets. As Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) has noted, China’s recent test of its DF-41 ICBM with multiple warheads employed technology given to China on Bill Clinton’s watch:

 

China has just tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile that can deliver up to 10 independently targeted nuclear warheads, using technology given to them on President Clinton's watch to launch communications satellites….

 

A report by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) dated Dec. 10, 1996, notes that China's MIRV technology is likely an offshoot of a "smart dispenser" for launching multiple satellites developed by China under a contract with Motorola to launch its Iridium communications satellites. This technology transfer was approved by the Clinton administration.

 

Another instance of missile technology transfer to China under the Clinton administration aided the development of the Chinese Long March series of missiles, a mainstay of its space program, technology also put to good use in the development of its ICBMs.

 

The Long March has proved a reliable Chinese launch vehicle, but it wasn't always so. After the failed launch of a satellite built by Loral Space & Communications Ltd. attached to a Chinese rocket in 1996, Loral provided 200 pages of data to China's Great Wall Industry Corp. to correct the guidance system problems of their Long March rockets, which blew up 75% of the time.

 

Such data, also applicable to the guidance system of ICBMs, were previously banned from export for national security reasons after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacres until President Clinton granted a waiver. Loral Chairman Bernard L. Schwartz gave $1.5 million to the Democratic Party in 1996.

 

As for the difference in the treatment of David Petraeus and Hildabeast Clinton, IBD has asked the obvious question:

 

Which is worse -- keeping classified information in a personal journal at home or doing government business and transmitting classified data on a private email account managed from the Clinton family home?

 

This adds a new level of premeditated secrecy and deceit to the actions of the presumptive 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.

 

It also adds a new level of hypocrisy to the most transparent administration in history's pursuit of former CIA Director and commander of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus.

 

It also raises the question, how can someone who, through the same “gross negligence” that cost American lives at Benghazi has placed all our lives at risk, be a candidate for president and not a candidate for incarceration?

 

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/petraeus_prosecuted__why_not_hillary.html#ixzz3y6FYgmDz

[10 YEARS LATER]

The BEAST should have been behind BARS a Decade ago. Maybe, just maybe in light of recent events, her Teflon coating may be getting cracked and chipped. Will she do Time ? Probably not. . . but then again, one never knows.

[DinarMillionaire]

Hitlery and Cigar boy should share a cell. Bill being locked up with the Hag 24-7 would probably be considered cruel and unusual punishment, but they both deserve hard time for betraying America.

[George Hayduke]

I think she's going down although she'll probably get pardoned if a democrat gets elected in her place. 

[nannab]

I think Petraeus is suffering enough. The general did serve our country. Hildabeast should not even be allowed to even run for

any office.