Petraeus Affair, Part 2

FBI officials said the congressional committees weren't informed until Friday, one official said, because the matter started as a criminal investigation into harassing emails allegedly sent by [biographer/affair partner Paula] Broadwell to [ Jill Kelley, 37, who lives in Tampa, Fla., and serves as an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the military's Central Command and Special Operations Command are located.]

Concerned that emails Petraeus exchanged with Broadwell raised the possibility of a security breach, the FBI brought the matter up with him directly, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.

  Yahoo

I can't tell yet whether this is supposed to be the official story about why the FBI was investigating Petraeus, and if so, whether it's a smoke screen for whatever they really were investigating.  Possibly we'll never know.

And, having just watched a documentary purporting to show George H.W. Bush's involvement in the assassination of John Kennedy (something I'm not finding all that difficult to believe), I'm left to wonder why people have such a difficult time with the idea of conspiracy but no problem with the idea of cover-up, when they're the same thing, just on different ends of an event.

And when oh when will people in and near sensitive positions learn that emails don't stay private? How stupid is Paula Broadwell?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.