How old is General David Petraeus?
68 years (November 7, 1952)
David H. Petraeus/Age
What star general was Petraeus?
The Petraeus scandal is a series of events that garnered strong media attention when an extramarital affair between retired four-star general David Petraeus, then Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Paula Broadwell became public information.
When did Petraeus get shot?
1991
In 1991, while Petraeus was a month into his battalion command at Fort Campbell, he was out on a range observing a live fire exercise one Saturday. That’s when a soldier who’d just cleared a bunker as part of the exercise tripped and accidentally fired off a single round from his M-16, hitting Petraeus in the chest.
What did General Petraeus do for the US?
The retired four-star general is also credited with helping bring about the forging of successful alliances between US forces and Sunni tribes in Anbar province, in opposition to al-Qaeda in Iraq. Shortly before his term in office ended, President Bush announced that troops would begin to be withdrawn from February 2009.
When did they find out about the Petraeus affair?
Mueller and Holder reviewed it on November 6 (election day), and decided that it was time to inform Clapper. Forensic techniques that discovered Broadwell’s identity and the affair with Petraeus also uncovered almost 30,000 pages of messages between Kelley and General John R. Allen, the US commander in Afghanistan.
When did General Petraeus first meet Paula Broadwell?
An in-depth report in Time magazine provided a chronology of some of the major events and personalities as they unfolded: Broadwell, then a United States Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, first met Petraeus at Harvard University in 2006. Petraeus attained the rank of four-star general.
When did General Petraeus become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency?
By the time Petraeus became Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2011, Broadwell had been working closely with him for years. She used nicknames for him such as “Dangerous Dave” and “Peaches”.