Why was the FBI tracking Petraeus's lady friend?

[hedgehog]

I thought J Edger Hoover was dead.

on edit: never mind

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021784706

[seabeyond]

1. from what i hear, she threatened a womans life... and the woman was afraid??? nt

[NMDemDist2]

2. WAPost is reporting that a woman received threatening emails from the girl friend

so threatening in fact the lady went to the FBI who started investigating

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021784706

[Dalai_1]

3. She had sent some emails

that had harassed two women who had complained to the FBI
that article did not say what was in the emails and I don't remember where
I read it..but then this was tweeted regarding Anonymous possible
involvement


http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/anonymous-may-have-hacked-petraeus-mistress

[Bucky]

4. Also, she was hot.

Hot to plot, that is

[DURHAM D]

5. This is the best info I have found to date -

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/us/fbi-said-to-have-stumbled-into-news-of-david-petraeus-affair.html?_r=0

[seabeyond]

8. why are they calling him mr. obama and not pres obama.

other than that, oh well.

[jberryhill]

6. Who wouldn't?

But, seriously, they were following up on threatening emails received by an as-yet unidentified woman, and which were apparently sent by Broadwell.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. If you're that close to the head of the CIA...

Who ISN'T following you?

[DollarBillHines]

9. The Director of CIA is always tailed - always.

CIA had to know about the affair, the emails simply forced exposure.

[HooptieWagon]

10. Its possible he put affair on hold when he took CIA post.

[DollarBillHines]

11. You know, I didn't even think about that.

Still, people had to know.

A three-star general doesn't operate in a vacuum.

Thanks for throwing that in, HW. It's things like your thoughts that remind me to try to keep my thought horizons as wide as I can.

[HooptieWagon]

12. DU is good at brainstorming...

No one person can come up with every possible scenerio.