“L’Affaire Patraeus-Broadwell-Kelley-Allen, etc., etc., etc.....” is emerging as the American “Perfumo” scandal, but it might well be an even bigger and broader scandal than the one that caused the Head of the British Government to Step Aside after his Minister for War was forced to resign

Certainly the Patraeus-Broadwell affair was not about flashy high-end party girls, and a well-known procurer for the rich and famous, but what WAS  going-on after hours at Centcom in and around Tampa ?  What WAS going on when Paula Broadwell was imbedded with Patraeus in the Afghan?  Remember! Just like the Patraeus scandal,  “Perfumo” wasn’t just about sex and adultery, it was also about British national security

Each and every aspect of the CIA Director/former Army General David Patraeus-Paula Broadwell-Jill Kelley-USMC General John Allen, etc., etc., etc. scandal, the FBI  investigation of the CIA Director without lawfully-mandated oversight, and the probable White House politicization of the Patreaus investigation-conflated with the Benghazi coverup is a tar bucket that’s just beginning to spill on the Obama Administration.

According to several news reports of the disclosures in the Patraeus scandal to date, the scandal is about much more than sex. According to CNN, even the FBI investigation of the initial Patraeus-Broadwell-Kelley flap might have been illegally conducted by the “Executive Branch” from the moment that substantial information involving wrong-doing by the CIA Director was uncovered through its revelation with the resignation of CIA Director Patraeus on Friday November 9 ( “Feinstein to investigate why FBI didn't notify Congress of Petraeus affair” by Ted Barrett, CNN, 11/13/12; “Lawmakers turn up heat on FBI over investigation of Petraeus” by Jeremy Herb and Jordy Yager, The Hill, 11/12/12 ).  Section 501 of the National Security Act of 1947 requires that the Executive Branch must inform the congressional intelligence committees of key intelligence-related activities, as follows: "The president shall ensure that the congressional intelligence committees are kept fully and currently informed on the intelligence activities of the United States, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity as required by this title."  One specific “intelligence related activity” deals with whether Paula Broadwell, the woman with whom Petraeus had an affair, was privy to classified intelligence information. In a speech at the end of October, Broadwell suggested the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, took place because the U.S. was housing Libyan prisoners there -- a theory, she noted at the time, that had not been vetted yet.

Tuesday, Congressman Jason Chaffetz, the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations subcommittee, noted that to gain access to the private email accounts of those involved, the FBI had to obtain a special warrant. To get such a warrant, the FBI would have had to go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ( “FISA Court”). It is largely used to aid federal investigators in national security-related probes.  The use of the FISA warrants, Chaffetz said during a morning interview, causes him suspect the FBI investigation is about “something more” than simply a couple of Four-Star generals allegedly behaving badly ( “Rep. Chaffetz: Special Warrants Needed in Petraeus Probe Suggest FBI Found More Than Sex” by John T. Bennett, “Intercepts - The official blog of DefenseNews” 11/13/12).