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  • This July 13, 2011, photo made available on the International Security Assistance Force's Flickr website shows the former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus, left, shaking hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus."As details emerge about Petraeus' extramarital affair with his biographer, Broadwell, including a second woman who allegedly received threatening emails from the author, members of Congress say they want to know exactly when the now ex-CIA director and retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they weren't told sooner. (AP Photo/ISAF)

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  • Jill Kelley leaves her home Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. Kelley is identified as the woman who allegedly received harassing emails from Gen. David Petraeus' paramour, Paula Broadwell. She serves as an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the military's Central Command and Special Operations Command are located. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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  • **FILE** Gen. Raymond T. Odierno (Associated Press)

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  • ** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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  • ** FILE ** Smoke rises after a reported NATO airstrike in Pakistan's tribal area of Mohmand, along the Afghanistan border, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Department)

    U.S.: Mistakes led to attack on Pakistani soldiers

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  • ** FILE ** In this Sept. 6, 2011, file photo, new CIA director David Petraeus, right, speaks following his swearing-in ceremony with his wife Holly Knowlton Petraeus, center, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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    David Petraeus, the former general who led the Afghanistan war and now heads the CIA, has ordered his intelligence analysts to give greater weight to the opinions of troops in the fight, U.S. officials said.

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  • **FILE** Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (Associated Press)

    U.S. Central Command 'friending' the enemy in psychological war

    The U.S. Central Command is stepping up psychological warfare operations using software that allows it to target social media websites used by terrorists.

  • ** FILE ** In this April 20, 2009, file photo, FBI agents escort Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse into FBI headquarters in New York. Muse has admitted he's a modern-day pirate. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)

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  • Marine Gen. James Mattis, named to head U.S. Central Command, arrives Tuesday on Capitol Hill to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (Associated Press)

    Central Command pick backs Afghan strategy

    President Obama's nominee to head U.S. Central Command professed broad agreement with the administration's objectives and strategy in Afghanistan — and beyond — during his confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

  • ** FILE ** U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus (left) meeting with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistani army chief, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Monday, July 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Inter Services Public Relations Department)

    Petraeus praises Pakistan in surprise visit

    Gen. David Petraeus lauded Pakistan's efforts at battling Islamist militants Monday during his first visit to that country since taking over as top NATO commander in neighboring Afghanistan this month.

  • Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander, U.S. Central Command, prepares to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 16, 2010. The committee gave him a few cookies after the hearing was continued from Tuesday when Gen. Petraeus slumped briefly during testimony, which aides blamed on dehydration and jet lag. At left is Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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    The White House is clinging to President Obama's ill-conceived pledge to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011, regardless of how the war is going at the time. In dogmatically standing by that pledge, Mr. Obama is virtually guaranteeing he will preside over America's second lost war.

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