Paula Broadwell

David Petraeus, former CIA chief and military leader, joins USC

2013-05-02 00:10:00

David H. Petraeus, the former four-star U.S. Army general who resigned as head of the Central Intelligence Agency last year after confessing to an extramarital affair, will teach part-time at USC and help mentor students who are veterans, officials are...

Petraeus offers apology for scandal during speech at USC

2013-03-26 21:35:00

Signaling a desire to return to public life, retired Gen. David H. Petraeus offered an apology Tuesday for the scandal that led to his resignation as director of the CIA and brought an illustrious career to an abrupt end. Petraeus has kept a low...

Petraeus apologizes for affair, hints at return to public life

2013-03-27 07:54:00

After Gen. David H. Petraeus apologized in Los Angeles for engaging in an extramarital affair, he signaled he is ready to move beyond the scandal and perhaps back into the public eye. Before about 600 guests in a hotel ballroom in downtown L.A. on...

Petraeus apologizes for affair, but was it enough?

2013-03-27 11:49:00

Is retired Gen. David H. Petraeus planning a comeback? He seemed to suggest so in a speech at USC Tuesday night. In the highly anticipated talk, Petraeus apologized for engaging in an extramarital affair that made international headlines. The scandal...

Petraeus apology for affair doesn't go far enough

2013-03-27 13:38:00

Glad to see that the self-imposed purda of retired Gen. David Petraeus is coming to an end.� I am not one who thinks an extramarital affair merits the equivalent of a professional death penalty, but Petraeus’ transgressions with his much younger...

Congress weighs legislation that would update email privacy laws

2013-03-19 12:03:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation Tuesday that would give stronger privacy protection to emails. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 would require the government to...

Gen. John Allen turns down NATO post, set to retire

2013-02-19 12:27:00

WASHINGTON — Gen. John Allen, who was top commander in Afghanistan until Feb. 10, announced Tuesday that he is retiring from the Marine Corps due to his wife’s chronic illness, turning down a White House offer to nominate him to be the supreme...

Newly cleared, Gen. Allen to command NATO

2013-01-23 13:35:00

WASHINGTON — The White House will go ahead with nominating Marine Gen. John Allen to be top U.S. commander in Europe, following an investigation by the Pentagon inspector general that found his emails with a Florida woman were not improper....

Fred Kaplan's 'The Insurgents' takes on Petraeus and policy

2013-01-18 04:05:00

-------------------- The Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster: 400 pp, $28 -------------------- Everyone knows — or thinks they know — about the influence exerted by the...

Jon Stewart: 'Any idiot' could have seen Armstrong was lying

2013-01-16 10:03:00

While the nation (or at least the news media) continues to reel from the news of Lance Armstrong’s confession to Oprah Winfrey, Jon Stewart thinks we’re all idiots for believing the cyclist’s claims in the first place – himself...

Times' 'naughty' and 'nice' list earns lump of coal from readers

2012-12-26 12:56:00

The Times' editorial board either needs to put itself on this year’s “naughty” list or take off a number of conservatives it put there, a majority of commenters on the Times’ website concluded over the holiday. Though none of the...

Postmodern prudes

2013-04-18 02:30:05

More than 500 people were murdered in Chicago last year. Yet Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel still found time to berate the fast food franchise Chick-fil-A for not sharing "Chicago values" -- apparently because its founder does not approve of gay marriage....

Clockwise from upper left: CIA Director Gen. David H. Petraeus, his biographer Paula Broadwell, General John Allen and socialite Jill Kelley.

2013-01-22 15:39:21