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Daily News & Analysis
| 6 months ago
Even for a four-star general feted for the "surge" that extricated America from the sectarian quagmire of Iraq, it was quite an entrance. David Petraeus swept up to the gates of a vast beachfront Florida mansion preceded by no fewer than 28 police...
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Kansas City Star
| 6 months ago
An anonymous email sent in May set off an elaborate chain of events that led to the downfall of former CIA Director David Petraeus, ensnared the top Afghan war chief and saw the Pentagon order a review of ethics training for senior officers.
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The Independent
| 6 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs This weekend sees the Southbank Centre declare it winter with their annual fest dedicated to all thi... Sunday is World Prematurity Day- a time when we can focus on prematurity, celebrate our tiny babies,.....Spotify...
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Sky News
| 6 months ago
Timeline Of The Scandal Timeline Of The Scandal Updated: 4:48pm UK, Wednesday 14 November 2012 A timeline of the tangled relationships at the center of a scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus and Army General John Allen. :: Spring 2006...
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The New York Times
| 6 months ago
The fundamental mission of the Department of Defense is to protect the nation, Mr. Panetta said in a memo to General Dempsey ordering a review of ethics training for generals and admirals. Any behavior that negatively impacts our ability to perform...
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The Globe & Mail
| 6 months ago
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta speaks to the media during a briefing aboard his plane in flight over the Pacific Ocean en route from Honolulu to Perth, Australia, Nov. 12, 2012. Jill Kelley from a Jan. 30, 2010 file photo The Tampa Bay Times/AP...
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Epoch Times
| 6 months ago
November 15, 2012 With an ongoing investigation into former CIA chief David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's office announced there would be a review of ethics training for senior officers. Pentagon spokesman George Little said Thursday...
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Kansas City Star
| 6 months ago
The CIA said Thursday that it had opened an exploratory investigation into the conduct of former director David Petraeus, who resigned after admitting to adultery, on the same day that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered the military services to...
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Kansas City Star
| 6 months ago
Top national security officials trudged to Capitol Hill on Thursday to grapple with fallout from the David Petraeus sex scandal as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta asked service chiefs to review ethics training for military officers. He said he was...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 6 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to review military ethics training in the wake of a series of investigations that involve high-ranking military officers' conduct, the Pentagon announced Thursday. Mr. Panetta began...
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Fox News
| 6 months ago
FoxNews.com Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, reminding the Pentagon's top brass that they "lead by example," ordered a review of ethics training after no fewer than five current and former generals fell under investigation or were reprimanded in...
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Daily Nation
| 6 months ago
Defence Secretary Leon Panetta ordered US military commanders on Thursday to carry out a review of ethics training among senior officers amid a widening sex scandal that cost CIA chief David Petraeus his job. Recent cases of misconduct involving the...
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Washington Post
| 6 months ago
The Washington Post Here's the question I would like to ask former CIA director David H...As you probably know, Petraeus handed in his resignation after it was revealed that he had an extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell, a married, military...
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Kansas City Star
| 6 months ago
President Barack Obama's choice to be the top commander in Afghanistan said Thursday he envisions a U.S. presence in the country after American combat forces leave at the end of 2014, despite a national war-weariness reflected in Congress.Gen.
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The New York Times
| 6 months ago
Humphries II helped start the inquiry that led to the resignation of David H...Humphries II, 47, is also described by former colleagues as relentless in his pursuit of what he sees as wrongdoing, which appears to describe his role in the F.B.I...
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The New York Times
| 6 months ago
Mr. Panetta, who was in Bangkok to sign a new defense cooperation agreement with Thailand, directed the chairman, Gen...Dempsey, to determine whether the training programs were adequate and to report back in time for him to send an interim report to...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 6 months ago
Defence secretary Leon Panetta has ordered the US military's top brass to look for any gaps in ethics training as he lamented lapses in judgment by officers that could "erode public confidence in our leadership," a Pentagon spokesperson said on...
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Arab News
| 6 months ago
Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, is currently under investigation over thousands of e-mails exchanged with the woman who inadvertently led the FBI to CIA director David Petraeus's mistress, leading to his resignation...Chairman of the...
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Indian Express
| 6 months ago
Petraeus, the most prominent US general of his generation and credited with turning around the war in Iraq, resigned last week to pre-empt revelations of an affair with biographer Paula Broadwell, a married army reservist. The US commander in...
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Washington Post
| 6 months ago
I will emphasize very strongly that the secretary was going to embark on this course long before the matters that have come to light over the past week, Pentagon press secretary George Little, told reporters traveling with Panetta here. The military...
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Associated Press
| 6 months ago
Citing a string of ethical lapses by senior military officers, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff to review ethics training and to brainstorm on ways to steer officers away from trouble. The move is a reflection of the...
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NewKerala
| 6 months ago
Obama said that Petraeus does not appear to have leaked potentially damaging classified intelligence to his mistress. In the President's first public intervention into the crisis gripping America's national security establishment, Obama said that...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 6 months ago
John Allen, the top American military leader in Afghanistan, and a Florida socialite contain comments that go beyond flirtatious, and can probably be described safely as suggestive, a Defense Department official said Wednesday. The official, who...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 6 months ago
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta headed to Thailand on Thursday on an Asian tour designed to cultivate strong security ties across the region as a counter-weight to China's rise. US plans to tentatively reopen military contacts with neighbouring...
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Boston Globe
| 6 months ago
David Petraeus, top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and incoming CIA Director, greet former CIA Director and new U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, right, as he lands in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool) AP...
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Arab News
| 6 months ago
A computer used by Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA director General David Petraeus led to his resignation, contained substantial classified information that should have been stored under more secure conditions, law enforcement and...
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BBC
| 6 months ago
The US military has revoked access for two women at the heart of the scandal that led to the resignation of General David Petraeus as CIA director. Security clearance has been suspended for his ex-mistress, Paula Broadwell. And Jill Kelley's pass at...
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The independent
| 6 months ago
As he attempted to draw battle lines yesterday before negotiations start with Congress on taxes and spending cuts, President Barack Obama inevitably found himself dragged into the maelstrom surrounding last week's resignation of David Petraeus from...
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Contra Costa Times
| 6 months ago
When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pointedly warned young troops last spring to mind their ways, he may have been lecturing the wrong audience...At least five current and former U.S. generals at the rank of one-star or higher have been reprimanded...
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Los Angeles Times
| 6 months ago
President Obama says he has no evidence that national security was compromised by the scandal that forced CIA Director David Petraeus to resign and that now threatens the career of Marine Gen...In his first press conference since last spring, Obama...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 6 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that he has confidence in Marine Gen. John Allen, the top military leader whose nomination as commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is on hold, pending an investigation linked to the...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
Former CIA Director David Petraeus will testify Thursday before a Senate panel about the deadly attack on the U.S.Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a senator said. The Senate Intelligence Committee hearing is one of several formal congressional inquiries...
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The Globe & Mail
| 6 months ago
Author Paula Broadwell attends the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on U.S. General David Petraeus' nomination to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, in this June 23, 2011 file photo. Multimedia Jill Kelley from a Jan.
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 6 months ago
Reuters The relationship between the local community and any major military base is important, and local socialites help to that end. One of them, Jill Kelley and her husband hosted a welcome dinner for Petraeus and his wife, Holly. Kelley was known...
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National Public Radio
| 6 months ago
No one should leap to any conclusions" about whether the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan did anything inappropriate when he was communicating with a Tampa socialite, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters today. That's one of the latest...
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News 24
| 6 months ago
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Wednesday against jumping to conclusions over the actions of the top US commander in Afghanistan, a day after placing him under investigation in a widening scandal that already cost CIA Director David...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 6 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta cautioned Wednesday against reaching early conclusions about the veracity of allegations against the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, who is under investigation for what Pentagon officials have said...
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Denver Post
| 6 months ago
Afghanistan, emerged Tuesday after it was disclosed that the general was under investigation for what the Pentagon called "inappropriate communication" with the woman whose complaint to the FBI set off the scandal involving former CIA director David...
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Zee News
| 6 months ago
39 Washington: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has demoted a former head of the Africa command on charges of lavish travel and spending. General William Ward, former Commander of US Africa Command, would now be retired at the grade of Lieutenant...
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Arizona Republic
| 6 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is cautioning against concluding that the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is guilty of misconduct based on allegations now under investigation. Panetta told reporters in Australia on Wednesday that he is...
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NY Daily News
| 6 months ago
President Obama last year with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Gen...David Petraeus has now imperiled his successor as commander in Afghanistan, given the U.S. military a black eye and embarrassed America on the world stage. The fallout from the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 6 months ago
Petraeus to resign and sparked a Pentagon investigation of the U.S. war commander in Afghanistan has thrown the Obama administration's national security team into turmoil. The ripples continued to widen Tuesday as Defense Secretary Leon E...John...
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DAWN
| 6 months ago
March 9, 2011 file photo in Sindelfingen near Stuttgart, Germany. A four-star general who headed US Africa Command has been demoted amid charges he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on pricey travel, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. Defense...
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Boston.com
| 6 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has demoted the former head of U.S. Africa Command who was accused of spending thousands of dollars on lavish travel and other unauthorized expenses, the Pentagon said Tuesday...William Kip'' Ward of a star, which means...
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NewKerala
| 6 months ago
The top US commander in Afghanistan is being probed for alleged "inappropriate" communications with a woman linked to the Petraeus scandal. US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday that he has ordered to open a probe of General John Allen after...
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CNN Blog
| 6 months ago
William "Kip" Ward, the first four-star general to command U.S. military operations in Africa, will lose one star and retire as a lieutenant general, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The Army also wants $82,000 back from the officer, the statement...
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International Business Times
| 6 months ago
Wikimedia Commons) As a four-star general, Ward would have commanded $236,650 annually in retirement pay. The demotion knocks his payments to $208,802 a year and Ward will retire as a three-star lieutenant general. In another black eye for the U.S.
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Russia Today
| 6 months ago
Former BBC executive Mark Thompson will soon start his tenure with The New York Times as CEO, but as he brings with him across the pond an extensive career in media and publishing, also tagging alongside is a major sex scandal...Africa Command...
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Kuwait Times
| 6 months ago
In this July 9, 2011 photograph, US General John Allen (left) and General David Petraeus (center) greet US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta as he lands in the Afghan capital. Allen, the US commander in Afghanistan, is under investigation for...
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NY Daily News
| 6 months ago
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP U.S...Africa Command, was demoted and ordered to repay $82,000 for unauthorized spending...Africa Command was demoted Tuesday and ordered to repay $82,000 for unauthorized spending on extravagant trips and other expenses.
