That was the concern of FBI investigators when they discovered that whoever was using a personal e-mail account of Petraeus’s was also using a terrorist technique.
Specifically in this technique, operatives of a cell all use the same e-mail account, but instead of sending e-mails, they write messages and leave them in the “draft” section of the account. Whoever has the account password can then log on and check for notes, without having to send missives over the Internet.
That is precisely what Broadwell and Petraeus were doing. The FBI concluded that there was no breach of national security, since no one else was accessing the account. But now the documents from Broadwell’s home are being reviewed.
Lawmakers want their own inquiry. Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is promising that his panel will hold hearings into whether Broadwell was given any classified information by Petraeus.
He cited accounts, for example, that Broadwell shared classified information about the attack in Benghazi, Libya, as a speaker. “It does seem strange that anything classified can go out in an unclassified setting,” Chambliss told Time magazine, adding that he was hopeful that at least the leak was unintentional. “The worse scenario is you intended to do it. And that’s what we’ll find out.”
