What an idiot. It probably took the FBI one second, if that long, to figure out.

OK, I am sitting in a wine cave with some of the most kick-ass wine lobbyists in the country, bored out of my mind with the academics.

Everyone has a screen up, dealing with issues.

I'm on DU, laughing at my laptop.

Everyone is looking at me as if I have Hydrophobia.

Thanks a lot,
DBH

Then I'm glad I didn't make a crack about the pic of the General and his little 'Private.'

Oops.

it's kind of interesting the know the ins and outs of their affair, but I'm getting a little concerned about the blatant leaks coming out. Or, is FBI info a matter of public record?

A little while ago it was "leaked" that the FBI dude who contacted the congressman was removed because he was sending shirtless emails to a woman on the case.

Who is leaking all of this? And why?

Sneaky.

LMAO

so that's not a breech perhaps.

That would not explain her access to his legitimate personal email account.

It is very easy to hide communication. The dropbox technique still doesn't hide IP access to Gmail itself, which any one of his CIA minions could have told him. It would have been much easier to use a proxy and a private email account on a foreign-based server, along with encryption using a plausible deniability double-login protocol. (This would entail sending two messages in the same email, both encrypted, but with different passwords, so that during investigation that requires release of passwords, they give the password for the innocuous email, while leaving the actual email encrypted even under warrant.)

may be a factor in the scandal. I assume he would face much stiffer penalties if the affair was discovered while in the service. I also do not think Paula was his first affair. She was writing nasty e-mails to the other woman for a reason. The "family friend" who was being harassed would no doubt have taken her complaint about the e-mails to Patraeus unless there was something more going on with her relationship or previous relationship with him. That she went directly to the FBI speaks volumes in my opinion, OK, I'll take off my tin foil hat now.