Feds to recommend felony charges against David Petraeus
That's the word from The New York Times:
Petraeus, most famously the architect of the 2006-07 surge in Iraq, who literally wrote the book on counterinsurgency, stepped down from his post at the CIA in 2012 after it was revealed that he had had an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
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