What took so long.

She was supposed to lose it as soon as she went off active duty.

Don't these generals have anything more important to do?

good grief.

Paula Broadwell, former CIA Director David Petraeus’ biographer, has lost her security clearance, an Army official told NBC News on Wednesday.

Oh, the horror. When will this witch hunt end?

"...a West Point graduate and former military intelligence officer, is a lieutenant colonel..."

Egos with ass magnets.

And to think the gun in his pants got him shot in the buttocks.

1. If every person that cheated was fired from their job, or forced to resign, or did so for the reasons that Petraeus did, the unemployment line would probably reach to the moon and back.

Just another chapter in the never-ending soap opera.... "As The Stomach Turns"

@KJNC, that is factually incorrect. You do not lose, or have your security clearance suspended, just because you are not on active duty, when you are still in the reserves. A clearance takes a lot to turn on, so if her unit were ever called up, they may not be able to deploy immediately while waiting for their clearances to be reactivated. In addition, while in the reserves, you spend one weekend a month, and two weeks a year on active duty.

In my experience, my TS clearance was downgraded when my duties not longer required a clearance at that level. A TS clearance is expensive to maintain; if the service member does not require it on a need to know basis, it is administratively downgraded--meaning no harm, no foul, it was not downgraded for cause, and it can be rapidly upgraded if the circumstances change.

I would question why hers was not downgraded previously but, again in my experience, officers always had a TS clearance and, in her case, as a West Point grad, even more so.

Yankee Space Aliens slay Demon Dixie Rebels (in the name of diamond-studded Jebus). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzA4XLjRaM&feature=related

@ExWxObs, She IS in the reserves. It is not like she is not a member of the military STILL.

Never a punishment for the male whores who chase younger woman. Woman will always pay. In this case both the one reporting and the one engaging in harassment. The men are always the victims. Give me a break!

ExWxObs (Ex-weather observer?)

Officers always have Secret Clearances not Top Secret Clearances. :) Service academy grads don't make any difference re: clearances. It's all about "need to know" on the job so to speak.

Sad all the way around. The most important thing in the news is the cover up of the four dead American's in Libya and all that is in the news is this lousy story.

Looks like Israel is about ready to go to war soon but still this story is the one that has "captured the imagination of the American People". How sick is that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HR4hp_-kSI

MS. Kelley, who first 'reported' this, to the FBI (really, a personal friend who sent her shirtless pics) later called the police, and tried to get the FBI and Police to stop the 'investigation, because of what she was afraid they would turn up. Victim? Her and her hubby have a suspicious charity that never did charity work, and they are a million dollars in debt.

It isn't some government coverup...this a a couple of psycho females. Psycho 1 was sending paranoid harassing emails to psycho 2 who said she had 'diplomatic protection.' What a delusional idiot!. Mrs. Kelly brought unwanted attention to herself because she was an idiot! The rest was uncovered because of her big mouth. This crazy Kardashian wannabe wanted attention - and she got it!!

And The General took preemptive action, admitted his guilt and resigned right away. He never said he was a victim. What did MRS. Broadwell, the MARRIED mother of 2 young children do? Go run and hide. Did SHE resign HER commission as a Lt. CoL.? Not yet. She is no victim, she is a volunteer.

I have no sympathy at all for a Married adult mother of 2 who schtoops a General under his desk, so it can be recorded in the History books for her children to read!

The Uniform Code of Military Justice, the military criminal code, bars married service members from having extramarital sex and unmarried service members from sleeping with married people. However, the rules come with qualifications. They say that the military will only prosecute when a case harms "good order and discipline" and when the adultery is "of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces." The ambiguity is intentional: Visits to prostitutes are not reasons for a court-martial, but long-term affairs and affairs between soldiers are considered dangerous and deserving of punishment. However, civilian prosecution for solicitation of a prostitute may well result in discharge from the service, and likely a dishonorable form of that discharge.

The main thing at issue is if Gen Petraeus had the affair while he was still in the military, which is against Military law. It seems if he can prove that it didn't, then nothing would happen. But Mrs. Broadwell was just promoted to Lt. Col In August. in the Reserves.

@Don... Officers and Enlisted alike can have TS (Top Secret) clearances, depending on what their MOS/AFSC and job-placement requires... Example, B-52 and F-15E Strike Eagle Pilots and crew have a TS clearance as well as the weapons loaders for those air frames who are Enlisted. This is especially true when these personnel are performing the nuclear-strike mission.

If her security clearance goes from "suspended" to "revoked" her military career is effectively over...

Her claiming Diplomatic Immunity really shows how a taco short of a combination plate this chick really is.

If our government ever grants her a security clearance from this day forward above TOURIST there is something seriously wrong.

Revoke all her clearances. She may have weaseled herself into a Defense Department contract, other than her book writing. Revoke her other contracts as well, with the stipulation that they may be renewed at a future date, say 25 years from now. She shouldn't even be allowed to be a food service vendor at any military installation as an employee of that contractor. Once everything that needs to be investigated, is investigated, and any punitive damages settled up, she should be allowed once again to enter the competitive market of military officer biographers, if she so chooses, but that doesn't mean that she has to be accepted.

@Jeff N.-1053549, that was Jill Kelley, who claimed diplomatic status (on that 911 tape), not Paula Broadwell.

Do you need a security clearance to screw a general?

AnaBanana-1782128 Never a punishment for the male whores who chase younger woman.

Your terms lack relevance. Male whores? What were they paid? In both cases, Petreus and Allen, it doesn't seem plausible they were chasing the women considering the women's preoccupation with being around rich and powerful generals.

Male whores certainly exist though for the pleasure of men and women who have a need to pay. I don't see either of these men in that category.

So who knew Generals were giving security clearances to girlfriends who had no official military business on Post ? Who else are they giving clearances to ? Maybe their stockbroker, so he can free range on base so he can figure out an investment strategy for the the old boy. Maybe the General's personal trainer so she can find the general anytime anywhere and makes sure he does his workout! Maybe the General's wife's interior decorator so they can study his on base surroundings and design a proper home setting that will inspire and comfort him. What is the heck are these guys doing to our military and national security ?

I'm not sure but the GOP's answer is to expand it!

AnaBanana-1782128

Never a punishment for the male whores who chase younger woman. Woman will always pay.

This will probably be the case so long as it is only the women who can seal the deal. Remember, "No means no."

Denver bill and dick,

Wow! My case is made. Males will always put all responsibility on the female. Regardless of circumstance. Now since one rape is reported for every 10 that occure, I'm wondering how many times it isn't consensual but guys just lie to themselves and fabricate it so. Anyone? Anyone? I'm glad you understand the word "no" denver bill 2 but seriously? It always takes two during consensual sex doesn't it?

They should all lose any access or security clearances until it is all sorted out. Anyone who believes Petreus is being stupid and blind. He already lied to his closest confidant, his wife. Lying to the rest of us is easy.

If her security clearance goes from "suspended" to "revoked" her military career is effectively over...

Wahoo, very well stated and most definitely true. Even if she is a LTC in the Reserves, all clearances are based on a "need to know." Just because I had a TS and [say] was researching Soviet/Russian military tactics doesn't mean I can go and request the plans of their nukes.

With this incident and those of the past few years (a PFC having access to intell he shouldn't have, Bradley Manning) the MI community needs to review the policies on the books and start be PROactive instead of reactive.

US Army, SFC MI (Ret)

You have to wonder how adept she was at cheating her way through West Point. Apparently, that's one of the most valuable skills you learn there.

Most of you have it all wrong. The security clearance is based on the position code of the position that a military, civilian, or non-appropriated funds employee holds. The position code for military officers and enlisted alike are based off their mission sensitivity at their current duty location, prospective deployable location, or their career code's mandatory need for a TS.

There is no preset clearance type for officers to have TS or Secret until they are in a career and/or position. The same concept applies to investigations for reserves/guard components. The concept is to avoid the high price of a initial single scope background investigations if they did not need a Top Secret/SCI clearance. For the DoD basics, go read DoD 5200.02-R "Personnel Security Program." It's your tax money that pays for everything.

AnaBanana-1782128

Denver bill and dick,

Wow! My case is made. Males will always put all responsibility on the female. Regardless of circumstance.

How many times have you been told "No?"

Now since one rape is reported for every 10 that occure, I'm wondering how many times it isn't consensual but guys just lie to themselves and fabricate it so. Anyone? Anyone?

You may be correct, but are you also aware that rape is both the most under-reported and the most over-reported crime on the books?

I'm glad you understand the word "no" denver bill 2 but seriously? It always takes two during consensual sex doesn't it?

Yes, it takes two to have consensual sex. Which of the two normally asks, and which of the two normally consents (or doesn't)?

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~George Orwell

Finally NBC links one of their BeTrayUS "Sex Scandal" stories (3 weeks later) to the main part of the latest Chapter of Benghazi-Gate.....The Secret Obama CIA Prison that is what really caused Ambassador Stevens and 3 other Americans (that we know of) deaths!

Of course NBC merely uses their Article to prompt the believe that "Paula Broadwell is "Untrustworthy" and shouldn't be believed, then NBC buries the truth in all 41 minutes of her speech knowing full well 99.999% of America won't bother to listen to the whole thing.

Gee talk about helping Obama cover-up Benghazi-Gate...NBC buried in plain sight!

Well please allow me to help promote the "truth" about this chapter of Benghazi-Gate for those honest enough to care. Here' Paula's Bombshell in about 1 minute twenty four seconds.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PgsLSsSKMI

Anyone else remember Obama & Clinton posing at Andrews over Ambassador Stevens and 3 other American Citizens Dead Bodies and the American Flag?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/09/14/president-obama-speaks-ceremony-benghazi-victims

Remember Ambassador Rice out on all the Sunday Morning talk shows tell US it was a spontaneous Riot and we shouldn't blame President Obama just before the Election?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/ambassador-susan-rice-libya-attack-not-premeditated/

This kind of sounds like President Obama now days, doesn't it!

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE

And this one too......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUpxmlZ2hyM

America...shortly after Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972 the Watergate Cover-up broke (which no one was actually Murdered) and within 18 months Tricky Dick was "Impeached" for lying to the American People about those "Crimes" after the fact!.....Well at least Nixon was "Honorable" enough to Resign!

Impeach Barrack Obama 2012!

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." ~George Orwell, 1984

Hey MUW, I could care less about Repubs or Dems. However I have one acronym for you...

WMDs

Where's the investigation into that? Heck, give the inquiry some time. It's not rocket science to know that government isn't the most efficient or quickest at discovering the facts. And that's for either side that controls the government.

Julie-401527...WMD'd? Like all of the "Real" ones that are now missing from Libya because of Obama's personal "Not War"? Or the one "Not Real" ones that Bush claimed to get US into invading Iraq?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

Either way both Obama & Bush (let's not forget Tricky Dick Cheney & Billary Clinton) are WAR CRIMINALS and need to be sent to the Hague for Prosecution!

http://www.bushtothehague.org/

But that will never happen now will it? Both side of the same "Party" CYA each other for their "Masters" on Wall Street's Fun & Profits and kill Tens of Thousands of Americans to do it! Don't believe?

Watch a True American General speak then a new PBS Documentary to fill in the Details!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw&feature=g-all-f

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l-8PFk8j5I

Jullie Obama Bush Clinton Bush Reagan They all work for Wall Street. Whenever you allow them to "Distract" you from the "Crime Of The Day" with "History" you are just allowing "Them" to get away with "Murder" once again!

Impeach Barrack Obama 2012!

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." ~George Orwell, 1984

Well MUW, I guess you and I have the same attitude towards politicians. The only honest politician, is an unemployed politician. They're all cheats and liars.

MUW - After 9/11, in which over 3000 Americans were killed, all the Bush administration could say was someone did not connect the dots. There were numerous warnoing from several nations that an attack was imminent and they did nothing. Well actually, they made sure 9/11 was a success. It was an inside job.

Bush and Cheney took us to a war with Iraq over WMD, which did not exist and over the Niger documents which were proved to be forgeries. I have yet to see any evidence that anyone in the Bush administration or the 9/11 Commission, ever attempted to find out who forged the documents to make it appear that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program.

Isn't it a strange coincidence that NORAD was having an exercise to simulate what the response would be if an airplane crashed accidentally into a building.It sure seems like a good way to confuse pilots responding to the actual crashes. Is it a drill or not a drill? How about the fact that Bldg 7, which wasn't even hit, came down in a controlled demolition?

Actually, she has the Casey Anthony look.

That jazzes me. Casey Anthony kind of rocks me--the look of her, but not the mind of her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HR4hp_-kSI

The General did something that has brought disgrace upon the CIA and the Army. He deserves to have his title of 4 Star General removed as well as retirment benefits, which is the norm for someone whose behavior has threatened national security and disgraced his Commander In Chief as well. Just remember that in the General's line of work, all those years of "atta boys" can be permanent erased with just one "ahhh sh*t".

Do you actually believe that most General Officers have not unzipped their flys at the wrong time. They are Human beings just like every body else. What he did was wrong. He terminated the arrangement prior to it becoming a national topic of discussion.

One small mis-step and a brillant Military mind went down the tubes.

Mr. Petraeus does not deserve to have his military/retirement removed. He wasn't a General when the affair started, and the affair didn't actually last very long, he was the CIA director for 14 months, their affair started after he became director and ended more than 4 months before they even started investigating Broadwell.

I have always been quite fond of the Patraeus's they are very nice people, I was heartbroken when this story first broke, and in a state of disbelief. I still am. There's something not right about all of this. I feel worse for Mrs. Petraeus, she's a very classy woman, one of the nicest women I've ever had the pleasure to be around.

Just the facts isn't enough to cover ordering drinks before lunch let alone keep the add bucks rolling in. It's a good thing though....the peeps that come to news sights for this stuff sometimes accidentally learn useful information.

You may have the opportunity to find out ..... if it ever happens.

Oh, yeah? Hmm. Sounds nice. I like being stalked by a hottie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1c2OfAzDTI

Hotties are hot. I want to lick and kiss hotties on their sweet lady parts, because I am a super-nice guy, and a Democrat. Democrats are hot.

Crap, Ralph. Just sexist crap. If she is a whore, then he is a whoring SOB. You only say that because she is female. She was a statewide student leader in high school. Top flight West Point grad. Huge fundraiser for wounded warriors. Honored Republican guest speaker here in my state. Published author. Honored Army officer. She is a woman who fell in love with a pretty impressive man...and she shouldn't have. She didn't take money for it.

Obama didn't want Petraeus gone...if that is what you mean. What...do you think he dispatched Paula to have an affair. Your position is ill thought out and frankly silly.

You should have never divulged she was a Republican.

No Buffalos Roam, I didn't imply that Obama had a thing to do with the affair. My implication is that it is possible that parties interested in a war with Iran, for instance, may have wanted Petraeus out of the picture and a war monger brought in, as a new Director of the CIA. Someone who might not be adverse to a false flag attack, which would be used to start the war. That is some of what the CIA does and has done in the past. Perhaps Petraeus has too many scruples.

Petraeus was Obams's choice for the position.

Paula Broadwell was clearly cheating on her husband, which is the mark of a whore. She initiated the contact, much like Monica Lewinsky. Petraeus is guilty of being seduced and using poor judgement, especially if he was revealing sensitive information to Paula Kranz Broadwell.

Her career is ruined also. No winners here.

That whole post was full on non sequiturs but the largest is " Therefore, because her clearance was revoked based on this address due to "mishandled classified information" means that what she said was true."

The Army in no way said it was true. They wouldn't even know.

I never said the Army said it was true as in they claimed the statements were true directly. I said by verifying that it was classified information, the fact that it was classified information would draw the logical conclusion that if it was classified, then it should be true.

It is a simple logic: if A causes B. Then if B occurs, then A must have happened.

So, if what she said was classified material, and mishandling classified material will get your security clearance revoked, then since her security clearance was revoked, she must have mentioned classified material.

As far as classification. If material is classified because it is true and sensitive information, then if material determined to be classified material, it must be true and sensitive information.

Otherwise, the question would be why would untrue information be classified? There is no reason to classify untrue information just as there is no reason to revoke the security clearance of someone who is speaking untrue information.

Both Broadwell and Kelly have acted like common ho's on a TV reality show: "Housewives, Socialites, and Top Brass". Broadwell will most likely have her commission revoked and any military benefits she may have been entitled to as well. Kelley will continue to be in debt and most likely go bankrupt and have to return to Lebanon after her husband leaves her. General Petraeous will most likely will not get anything whatsoever negative done to him, that's how it works - the rich, famous, and powerful have a different judicial system with two blind eyes and no hearing.

I spent six years in Intelligence Operations, before computers, and whenever someone came by, we covered our work. It was an assumption that the person had absolutely no business knowing what I was working on. That's the way Intelligence Operations worked. We were constantly reminding those who were in Interpretation that they had to do so also. In addition, TS clearances in Intelligence will not get you the information that is highly classified. TS is a beginning clearance for Intelligence work. There are clearances much higher than TS. I know, I had a much higher clearance than TS. But that didn't mean I had the need to know, even though I had the right to know.

What was Broadwell doing that required only a TS clearance. Not that much in my estimation. As a West Point grad, she automatically had a Secret Clearance, not TS. That comes with a much stricter investigation than that needed for Secret, much like Secret had a stricter investigation than for Confidential or Restricted information.

Of course, Operations is a much different animal than Interpretation. A lot of personnel in Interpretation had higher clearances than TS. And no one had lower than TS. Couldn't be in Intel without it.

In addition, her clearance, or clearances as in my case, should be revoked, not suspended. She violated the UCMJ with her affair. Just because she was't deployed didn't and doesn't mean squat. She was still a military officer and should be stripped of all clearances and probably told to resign her commission. If she doesn't, she should be drummed out.

As for General Petraeus and General Allen, both should have resigned their positions, not just the afformentationed. General Allen cannot be trusted with classified information simply because of the nature of his knowing Kelly and possibly giving her information she should not have known. There has to be an assumption he did, therefore a loss of clearance and resignation of commission.

My husband also is responsible for all TS data concerning military intelligence at our local Fort.and only he and a few others have the right to go into the vaults where the media is kept. It must be signed out and in by the librarian, and my husband must do complete inventory every few months. There is no reason for Broadwell to have classified material on her home computers. Hopefully this will be looked into., and appropriate charges are made. This woman's jealousy brought down a man with top-notch abilities serving his country. She should be ashamed of herself.

Hypothetical

OK, maybe I'm stupid, but I don't get how her talking about something, that got filmed by SOMEONE ELSE, and then that OTHER PERSON put this video on Youtube, is any grounds for her being even talked to over it.

Because she should have never talked about it in the first place, she basically violated OPSEC.