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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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LANGLEY, VA – Officials with the Central Intelligence Agency are facing continued fallout from revelations that Paula Broadwell has been linked to affairs with CIA Director David "Peaches" Petraeus, ISAF General John Allen, at least one Marine Private First Class, hundreds of field agents, and a half-dozen security guards, among others.
The whole scandal has overshadowed the larger and more important issue pressing the nation: how many of Broadwell's liaisons actually knew each other, what did they know and when did they know it?
Broadwell, a former soldier and author of the Petraeus biography Balls Deep: The Education of David Petraeus, was recently revealed to be intimately involved with the subject of her book. Although Petraeus resigned due to the affair, senior members of the Clandestine Services are now conducting an internal investigation to assess the full extent of the damage caused by 'Broadwellgate' as the scandal has become known.
Initial estimates have placed the number of individuals involved with Broadwell between 100-200, and it could mark the biggest scandal to rock the CIA since 1975, when the entire Church Committee admitted to an affair with Farrah Fawcett.
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