Video: Gen Petraeus’s Affair with Paula Broadwell
Paula Broadwell, Harvard researcher and author of a biography of Gen. David Petraeus, is the woman with whom Petraeus had an affair, according to Slate. There is little doubt that she had access to highly sensitive information.
While conducting research over the past three years, Broadwell was afforded extensive access by General Petraeus, his mentors, his subordinates, and his longtime friends. Over the course of Petraeus’s command of ISAF-Afghanistan from July 2010 through July 2011, Broadwell embedded with the general, his headquarters staff, and his soldiers on the front lines of fighting across Afghanistan… (http://www.paulabroadwell.com/)
Paula was recently on Comedy Central promoting her book:
The latest tweet from Paula was on Nov 5th:
My take: Petraeus ldrshp maxims in Newsweek tinyurl.com/byeqtsxTake performance personally/if u r ok 2 b average, so 2 will be your team.
— Paula Broadwell(@paulabroadwell) November 5, 2012
From a list of Gen. Petraeus’s “Rules for Living.”
Lead by example from the front of the formation. Take your performance personally—if you are proud to be average, so too will be your troops.
Well, it does look like he has done the right thing in apologizing and stepping down…