the fbi got involved and discovered the e-mails came from paula broadwell, a biographer who it turnsad an affair with the man she wrote about, that man, general david petraeus and resigned cia director after the story went public just after the election. three months later she wants her story out. is it a little too late? >> well, nobody cares. i mean, really, and what's interesting about it, she actually complains in the pa piece that she came out and wrote that nobody would move on. and then everybody's moved on and then she wants to talk about it. >> jon: yes. vicky, you were offered the story. >> i was offered the story and i turned her down because i was offered two terms. the first, could she have the cover and i have a big piece coming out which addressed the real issue about jill kelley, i would disagree kirsten, one question that matters is how does somebody like this have access to general petraeus and general allen and are we safe as a result? i mean, that's, that is the real question. but no, she asked me for the-- to the interview and these conditions and no self-respect

met paula broadwell, i didn't know how terrified from the threatening notes.ortable going in front of a camera or talking to a reporter like me, people could have spoke on her behalf. >> i think there's a lot more to understand in this. >> perhaps she's been advised not to be transparent about this, maybe there's a criminal investigation, maybe her lawyers are advising her don't say anything, because if these were truly harassing e-mails, if she was truly afraid, maybe there's something there. so we don't know why she's not being transparent. >> there is definitely something else going on. i appreciate it, guys, thank you. >>> still ahead, going to talk about the nauinauguration, what bill clinton doing back there? presidential photo bomb to share with you, straight ahead. meet the five-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max says ha. c-max says wheeee. which is what you get, don't you see? cause c-max has lots more horsepower than prius v, a hybrid that c-max also bests in mpg. say hi to the all-new 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. [ female announcer ] new roc® retin

off the affair between then cia director david petraeus and his pro tow jay turned biographer paula broadwellsilence. she did so with how which kirtz. boy, did she ever break her silence. it turns out if you believe her version, we, the press, got a lot of things wrong, didn't be we? >> reporter: jill kelley is angry at the media coverage. it was a very emotional two-hour interview, actually, in which jill kelley talked about the things we got wrong, for example, the famous 30,000 e-mails between her and general john allen, the top commander in afghanistan. i went along with this. she said there were a few hundred, they were mostly pained and not sexy and flirtatious. she said she sent those from a joint yahoo account she shared with her husband. >> well, now that's what stood out to me the most. other than the 30,000 e-mail program, having spent a lot of times in the courtrooms, i had an idea the 30,000 e-mails were bulk accounts that needed to be looked through. however, the part that you just said, howie, about the e-mail account she shared with her husband. doesn't that tell us a lot abou

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. >> you add ad post script about the paula broadwell affair.you surprised as we all were when we first heard about day fair. how stunned were you. >> i was pretty surprised. as you know, wolf, i never met an unassuming four star general. dave petraeus was more assuming than many. this was a guy who when he was commander in iraq he just did things on his own. when he was occupying mosul and no command anywhere in iraq he opened up the boarder to syria, he set up economic enterprises, he held elections, all of this on his own. when he commanded all of iraq he basically set up the sons of iraq which paid ex-militants to come over and fight on the american side fighting the jihadist. again on his own authority. he didn't tell his superiors back in washington about this. and these kinds of enterprises, he did this, he had to do it because that was the only way he could succeed on the battlefield. but, you know, once you do this sort of thing enough you get used to it. >> i spent a little time with him in baghdad in 2005. i saw how he operated and ob

. >> she the dumb one of the operation because paula broadwell has like 11 masters degrees and three ph.d.s. she's like a super genius. if the two of them can't get it figured out, what luck do you and i have? and i don't mean you and i having an affair. >> reporter: these are just some of the deleted texts that las vegas p.i. ed offerman has recovered from cell phones. we collected over skype. >> in general, on the internet, people think that they're invisible. they think they can get away with a lot. >> reporter: on his website, offerman offers for $69 to scour dating sites for a suspected cheat's e-mail address. >> they realize the trail that they're leaving behind. >> reporter: flow another $29.99 and he'll scour escort services as well. and then there are always the good old fashioned paper phone bills. >> when we look at phone bills for people cheating, we look at the number of minutes someone is talking. most cell phone calls are like a minute, two minutes, three minutes max. when you see 30, 40, 50 minute cell phone calls and that number keeps popping up, there's a problem. >

killed osama bin laden and then there was a book in the education of general david petraeus by paula broadwell. sarah weinman, any comments on moe's books? >> guest: it's funny you alluded to miss broadwell spoke as a former title that got second wind because of course in light of general petraeus' resignation this broadwell's role in that, that's exactly why her book, why the paperback publication was pushed up. i think what it is done a little bit though is take away from the larger aspect of these books. when scandal rears its head it's focused too much on that rather than the substance of the book but one thing that is worth pointing out in relation to mark bowen and mark owen was a pseudonym for the navy s.e.a.l.s involved in the mission to kill osama bin laden is that the books publisher, penguin press, they announced that with weeks to spare and i felt they did a brilliant job of marketing that book. of course it didn't help depending on who you asked that mark owens real name was dutifully revealed by the media which then caused its own firestorm but the upshot is many of these books e

it sounds like the woman who wound up costing general petraeus his job at the c.i.a., paula broadwelled receiving e-mail from somebody that were so ambiguous, yet threatening, she didn't know if they were from a man or woman. >> brian: right. she said that she felt threatened and actually scared for her life. that's why she reached out to a friend in the f.b.i and she's telling her side of the story. she didn't want to hurt anybody. general allen, although the investigation delayed his promotion, i do think it's important and caused for embarrassment and he's been cleared. all the earlier reports about hundreds of e-mail are not true. >> gretchen: but this is a case of what happens when a story goes out there and then does a retraction get as much attention as the actual story? i mean, remember, it was said 30,000 e-mails. people were scratching their heads like and they're make accusations saying how could he manage afghanistan and it turns out he wasn't. can you regain your reputation after something like that? i think it's a shame that this happened to this great general who appare

as for paula broadwell, federal prosecutors decided last month not to file charges over her e-mails. well spokesman tells nbc news absent any charges, people can make their own judgments based on that. >> now that the investigation of paula broadwell has been closed, i think jill kelly wants to speak out, set the record straight, clear her name, change her image and get back to her old life. >> reporter: nbc news contacted jill kelly, but she had no comment. as for those e-mails, she has not shown them to the daily beast or any other reporters, but because they're no longer evidence, there are not going to be any charges, she can do whatever she want with his those e-mails, even post them on the internet if she chooses. meantime in this morning's "washington post" jill kelly and her husband have written an op-ed, calling on congress to pass new laws to protect the privacy of people who report crimes. savannah? >> kerry sanders, thank you. >>> highlights of president obama's second inaugural, beyonce's starring rendition of the star spangled banner. was she actually singing it live? st

to the f-b-i investigation that blew the lid off c-i-a director david petraeus's affair with paula broadwellkelley had claimed she was being threatened by broadwell. petraeus later resigned from his post at the helm of the c-i-a. >> new developments in the notre dame football player hoax.and this is the face of the hoax. and we'll try to break it down as simply as possible. this is the woman whose picture was used to help fool star player manti t'eo into thinking he had a girlfriend. diane o'mera said today that ronah tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge - when tuiasosopo created the fake girlfriend - using the name lannay kekua. o'mera says tuiasosopo called her last week, confessed to the scheme, and apologized. o'mera and tuiasosopo went to high school together but o'mera says they were never close. >> she says that for five years, tuiasosopo "has literally been stalking my facebook and stealing my photos." manti t'eo maintains he was tricked into an online romance with the fictional lennay kakua, and until late last month, t'eo says he believed his girldriend died of luk

between allen and jill kelley, the woman who complained about harassment from petraeus' lover paula broadwell. general allen succeeded petraeus in afghanistan in 2011. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from park city, utah, at the sundance film festival. we begin today's program with "we steal secrets: the story of wikileaks," a documentary that examines the key players involved in the release of hundreds of thousands of secret u.s. diplomatic cables to the website wikileaks. let's go to a clip of the film which begins with former state department spokesperson t. j. crowley, who resigned days after, accusing the pentagon of being ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid in its treatment of suspected army whistleblower private bradley manning. >> this leak is industrial scale, it touches every relationship the united states has with other countries of around the world. even as the u.s. and others tried to manage the impact of this, it will be a wound that keeps opening up on a recurring b

she aroused the wrath of david petraeus' mistress, paula broadwell f.ared, he will become the life commandener europe. petraeus is awaiting his next job, probably in academic world, say his friends. mean while, the troops carry on their rudderless mission. our role in afghanistan, however, is in a death spiral, as the murder of coalition troops by the trainable afghans continues to soar. last year, our afghan partners attacked us 47 times. often at close range, with 63 dead. most of them, americans. senior field officers are saying openly that the afghans cannot be trusted. with the new year come reports of the military brass, knocking out new visions for the american armed forces, think tanks, seminar holders and batallians of intellectuals are hard at work, dreaming up new relevance for the afghanistan mission. the now discontract -- discredited coin, that was seen by the disgraced petraeus is seen as the empty policy it was -- the simple but forceful tactics and strat yee gee of american military power have been usurped by the warrior who is want to

there was something that paula broadwell, general petraeus' friend, she said there was a secret prison there. that was denied. i heard reports that they were involved in arming different groups and doing a little gun running there. there is a lot that could have been going on that probably was going on. and in terms of the question of this whether it was a riot or spontaneous event i did extensive reporting on this. what happened, when the c.i.a. chief stationed in tripoli wrote a cable back literally the night after the attack saying this was a pre-planned attack. he was overruled by the ic or intelligence community within washington. that was a gentleman who overruled him john brennan, in fact, is the one who came up with the recommendation that it wasn't a spontaneous attack. >> cenk: let's fire john brennan. agreed, deal. by the way where is john brennan going? head of the c.i.a. why isn't he in front of them? he's the one who apparently made it political based on that reporting. >> and it might not have been political. you know, brennan is dealing with, you know, there are 16,000

he wrote potentially inappropriate e-mails to the woman who claims she was being threatened by paula broadwellustrial average and the s&p 500 hit new five year highs today on the heels of strong correspondent earnings reports. uksz >>> time for the ridiculist. it is a story that everyone it seems is talking about. scandal of scandals whether or not beyonce may have lip synced her performance of the national anthem at the inauguration. i respond with a big star-spangled so what? it is beyonce's world and we're just living in it. take another look at the performance in question. ♪ and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ >> so there's no doubt that is beyonce's voice, but a spokeswoman for the u.s. marine band says beyonce didn't sing it live and instead chose to lip sync to a recording she did the evening before. but another marine band spokesperson said no one in the marine band is, quote, in a position to assess whether or not beyonce sang live or not. i'm releasing a statement right now saying i just don't care. we

petraeus who resigned last year after admitting to an extra marital affair with his biographer paula broadwell. brennan said today that the c.i.a. needs the support of the country as it faces growing challenges. >> if confirmed as director i will make it my mission to ensure that the c.i.a. has the tools it needs to keep our nation safe and that its work always reflects the liberties, the freedoms and the values that we hold so dear. >> woodruff: but brennan too may face tough questions. he took himself out of the running for the c.i.a. job four years ago amid criticism for supporting so-called enhanced interrogations. when he ran the national counterterrorism center under president bush. brennan hassles defended rendition, the practice of sending terror suspects to other countries where they might be subject to torture. he said on the newshour in 2005. >> i think it's an absolutely vital tool. i have been intimately familiar with the cases of rendition that the u.s. government has been involved in. i can say without a doubt that it has been very successful as far as producing intelligence tha

now, jill kelly had claimed that she was being threatened by paula broadwell.air with the former cia director, david petraeus. we were sent an op-ed by kelly and her husband, scott, that will be published by the "washington post." in it, the kellys describe how they were victimized throughout the ordeal. they also urged congress to consider legislation to strengthen electronic privacy. >>> it has been 537 days since the united states lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? a total of about 4.65 million homes were sold in 2012, homes that were previously owned. that number may not mean much but it does mean something important. it's the best year we've seen for those home sales since 2007. >>> now, our fourth story "outfront." mourning the hostages lost. the family of one of the american victims of the algeria hostage crisis spoke out today. victor lovelady's brother and daughter told the world a bit more about the man they have lost. >> i just want to know how my brother died. it means a lot to me. if they told us they don't think he suffe

potentially inappropriate e-mails to jill kelly, the woman who claim shed was being threatened by paula broadwellography and lover. >>> overseas, terrifying video from a subway station in madrid. you see that? a woman faints and falls on to the tracks just as a train is approaching. an off-duty police officer jumps into action, rescues the woman while bystanders wave down the train, which stops just in time. >> incredible pictures. scary stuff. >>> next, the manti te'o affair and what, if anything, he can say to clear up the most confusing phony love story college football has ever seen. bob costas is along for the ride. a restaurant is hard, try running four. fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. i'm up next, but now i'm singing the heartburn blues. hold on, prilosec isn't for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. ♪ oh what a relief it is!

former c-i-a director david petraeus, steeping down bbographer, paula broadwell.ealed that afghanistan john allen - is "inappropriateecommunication" with socialite jill kelley. but the intermingling doesn't sttp there .. the fbi agent who began this himself accused of sending this picture kelley. he later says it was emailed as a yes, 2012 was the year of falling from graceefor manyyof these ersonalities. and in the digittl world we live in, tte question for 22-13 is not so much what the scandal will bee but when wwll itthit, and in new york, i'm arthel neville, fox news. &p violencc rings out in califo. california.how many people werr killed... after gun fire errpts at a new year's eve celebration..ou're watching [ male announcer ] this commercial is not about getting fios, it's about getting fios. that moment after you finally got it that you actually get it. the difference 100% fiber optics makes and you say "woah we are not on cable anymore." when online videos aren't herky jerky, you get it. or when a movie downloads in two minutes, you get it. [ female annou

why her life is now a nightmare and why she decided not to press charges against paula broadwell. >>>. the family of one of the three americans killed in the algerian hostage crisis will hold a news conference at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. heartbroken family members said victor lovelady felt 100% safe working at that gas facility in algeria. >> nothing has happened there in so long and my friend's been doing it so long. it's fine here, so safe, we have protection. he really truly felt safe there. >> his daughter, erin, wants everyone to know what a great dad victor was. 32 others confirmed dead, including 2 other americans. >>> after being delayed for health reasons, secretary of state hillary clinton getting ready to testify on the dead al tack on benghazi. she will testify before the house and senate committees about the attack in libya that claimed the life of chris stevenses and three other americans. >>> and the wife of wes welker blasting ray lewis. seen as a leader, inspiration to his team. but after baltimore bounced from the playoff, anna welker says proud of my husband. if any

she's the woman whether claimed she was being threatened by paula broadwell. >>> and she's speaking outst time since being wrapped up in the petraeus scandal. she says she's upset with law enforcement and the media's handling of the story and sheing a nids over the loss of her family's privacy. she said, quote, we've sxerned how careless handling of our information by law enforcement and irresponsible you intoes headlines endanger set zencitiz privacy. they're asking congress to consider stronger electronic privacy protection. >>> can we get to the story everyone is talking about? beyonce. did she or didn't she. millions of americans saw and heard. but only a few know for sure if beyonce's performance on inauguration day was live or recorded. what's the truth? we will take a closer look coming up. so if ydead battery,t tire, need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geico's emergency roadside assistance is there 24/7. oh dear, i got a flat tire. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right here. someone help me!!! i hav

. >> obviously let me get this out of the way, the paula broadwell affair, you wrote this whole thingwrote this postscript after this broke, but first the book, the title "the insurgents." >> it's not the taliban, it's not al qaeda. it's petraeus and his circle that were an insurgency within the united states army. >> how do you mean? >> they rebelled against the military officers from within. before petraeus took command in iraq, the definition of war in u.s. army field manuals was a major combat operation, tank on tank, things like fights against insurgents, terrorists, they were called military operations other than war, they weren't even called war. they had an acronym, mootwa. the chief of staff said real men don't do mootwa. they came up in a generation they had fought in el salvador, haiti, boz nina, somalia, this was the war that was coming. we need to turn the army around so it can deal with these in a systematic way and they had study insurgencies and they behaved within the bureaucracy the same way insurgencies do in that are their open. >> you write david petraeus put hims

checking our top stories now, florida socialite jill kelley says paula broadwell, the mistress of formeria chief david petraeus tried to blackmail her according to cnn host howie kurtz. kelley tells kurtz her life is now a nightmare. >>> atari has filed for bankruptcy, the move intended to allow the u.s. company to break away from its unprofitable french parent company, atari u.s. is now looking for buyers for some of its assets, including the company's games catalogue. >>> and take a look at this, yes, that's exactly what it looks like, a massive boulder that has crashed into a home, happened in st. george, utah. the woman who was at home at the time was injured and she was taken to the hospital. she's since checked out but understandably, she decided to check into a motel to recover fully. it's not known what caused this boulder to come loose. >>> some in hollywood may want to censor a new book that claims to give an inside look at scientology from the perspective of one of its most famous defectors, aacademy award winning director paul hagus. cnn's miguel marquez explains. >> you are

crisis, former cia director david petraeus stepping down over an affair with his biographer, paula broadwellat the top u.s. general in afghanistan, john allen, is under investigation for inappropriate communication with socialite jill kelley. but the intermingling doesn't stop there. the fbi agent who began this entire investigation is himself accused of sending this picture to kelley. he later says it was e-mailed as a joke. yes, 2012 was the year of falling from grace for many of these personalities, and in the digital world we all live in, the question for 2013 is not so much what the next scandal will be, but when will it hit, and who's in the headlines? in new york i'm arthel neville, fox news. rick: i am so glad to have not seen you in any of those scandal clips. heather: no scandals for me. [laughter] we work too much to be scandalous. rick: well, the house is officially back in session right now. there's a live picture as we wait to see if they'll even decide to vote on this package, this deal to avoid the fiscal cliff that was approved overnight in the u.s. senate. we'll keep our ey

potentially inappropriate e-mails to jill kelly, the woman who claims she was being threatened by paula broadwell allegations against general allen to be unsubstantiated. an official tells cnn, at the same time, the official says, no decisions have been made on whether to go forward with general allen's nomination to be the nato supreme commander. his nomination was put on old by the white house, following some of these allegations and the outcome of the inspector general review. it will be up to the white house now to decide whether or not they're going to support him to be the nato commander. but once again, the inspector general clearing general allen of allegations he wrote potentially inappropriate e-mails to jill kelly. that just coming in. we'll take a quick break. much more news right after this. well now i'm her dietitian and last year, she wasn't eating so well. so i recommended boost complete nutritional drink to help her get the nutrition she was missing. and now she drinks it every day. well, it tastes great! [ male announcer ] boost has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including

also, paula broadwell, she would come up through west point, was a paratrooper, had parachute trainingitness freak. he would have initially been attracted to her, even if he had been the dowdiest boy coming out of west point. and obviously, things went in another direction. but you add up several things together, it's not as surprising as it might have seemed. >> following up on that, one of the things after the story came out, the broadwell story, a lot of journalists, and forgive me, you may have written something like this, i don't know. but a lot of journalists who covered him wrote kind of -- renlding their garments and kind of saying one of the ways he rose to the top was by cultivating journalists in a very calculating and successful way. so what -- how much does that play into mark's question about how much did that matter, the myth-making that he himself engineered? >> it mattered a great deal. some of his mentors coming up the ranks instructed him in the art of cultivating a myth about yourself. now, the myth can have some basis in truth. it's not necessarily all fiction. but

the tampa associatite who had allegedly been harassed by paula bro broadwell.he story had growing national security implications. and allen's career was in jeopardy. he had just been nominated to be the supreme nato commander in europe. >> the secretary has asked the president and the president has agreed, to put his nomination on hold. >> reporter: but allen said he had done nothing wrong. the administration urged caution. >> i can tell you that the president thinks very highly of general allen and his service to his country. >> no one should leap to any conclusions here. >> reporter: that assessment was apparently wise. the pentagon last night issued a statement that allen had been cleared by a military inspector general. his nomination could be back on track soon. as for jill kelley, she and her husband call suggestions of an affair with allen painful and preposterous. kelley said that and other misleading junk reporting was emotionally exhausting and damaging to her family. kelley says her privacy was violated. she became a media target rather than a victim

so the david petraeus and paula broadwell scandal is behind us, but there are some generals who shouldittle more attention. i would like you to meet frederick and kimberly kagan. they're a husband and wife team and they have top clearance in our military base in kabul. they go over reports and participate in strategy sessions, they size advise some of our senior military people including petraeus and they brief paul ryan on the status of the war. but they are not military. they are not employed by the u.s. government. they're private military analysts who work for conservative think tank, and that think tank has very deep ties to the george bush administration. in fact, it's now employing some of the leading architects of bush's foreign policies, the think tank is, neo-cons like paul bolton and paul wolfowitz. why do they have the ear of our generals over there. there to answer our question is justin eliot. he has been reporting on this story. he's coming in from new york. welcome inside "the war room." >> good to be here. >> jennifer: what is the role of these advisers? what specifica