| | November 12, 2012 | | SECRETS In a public talk in October, Paula Broadwell—the biographer and alleged mistress of David Petraeus—claimed that the Benghazi consulate was attacked to free CIA-held prisoners. Eli Lake reports. HERE WE GO Think the road to the 2012 election was long? You haven't seen anything yet. The jockeying for the next presidential run is already underway, says Howard Kurtz in Newsweek. DOWNFALL Three’s a crowd. A second woman was identified on Sunday as more news emerged around the career-ending affair of former CIA director David Petraeus. Identified by sources familiar with the FBI investigation as Jill Kelley, the woman was a Petraeus family insider who went to the Feds after getting threatening emails from Broadwell, according to law enforcement officials. “We and our family have been friends with General Petraeus and his family for over five years,” Kelley said in a statement. “We respect his and his family’s privacy and want the same for us and our three children.” TOO CLOSE Syrian bombs fell on a town held by opposition forces just yards from the Turkish border Monday. Helicopters and warplanes struck the town of Ras Al-Ain, which last week fell under rebel control. The warplane that dropped explosives within a stone’s throw of a frontier fence veered close to the limits of Syrian airspace and may have crossed over into Turkey, according to a Reuters reporter on the ground. Civilians from the Syrian town fled into Turkey as the bombs fell. PURSE STRINGS Time for a 99 percent road trip. President Obama may take his message to the people as he works with Congress to create a debt-reduction cocktail that would include tax hikes for the wealthy as well as spending cuts. House Speaker John Boehner has said that hiking taxes is “unacceptable,” an attitude that may put him on a collision course with the White House as both parties gear up for battle over the looming fiscal cliff. President Obama has said that he would veto any deal that does not include the expiration on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. | |
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