Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus, Photo Credit CSM Marvin L. Hill
Adam Goldman, Washington Post: How David Petraeus avoided felony charges and possible prison time
Inside a secure conference room on the sixth floor of the Justice Department in early 2014, top federal law enforcement officials gathered to hear what criminal charges prosecutors were contemplating against David H. Petraeus, the storied wartime general and former CIA director whose public career had ended about 15 months earlier over an extramarital affair.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and FBI Director James B. Comey listened as prosecutors did a mock run-through of the government’s case, a preview of how they would present their evidence to Petraeus’s lawyers in order, they hoped, to force a guilty plea.
The presentation included felony charges: lying to the FBI and violating a section of the Espionage Act. A conviction on either carried potentially years in prison.
They were also considering bringing the same charges against Petraeus’s biographer and former mistress, Paula Broadwell.
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WNU Editor: Anyone else would be serving some jail time. But the question needs to be asked .... is Hillary Clinton next?
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Next to not serve some jail time? Yes, seems so.
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