- The ex-lover of fallen CIA chief David Petraeus has broken her silence on the affair that led to his downfall, saying she is filled with guilt and shame.
Paula Broadwell and husband Scott were captured by television cameras returning to their North Carolina home on Sunday after hiding out at her brother’s house in Washington since the scandal broke.
General Petraeus, the most celebrated US military leader in a generation, stepped down on November 9th as head of the CIA after admitting to an affair with Ms Broadwell, a counter-terrorism expert and lieutenant-Colonel in the Army Reserve who had co-authored a biography of the general.
Pictures showed Ms Broadwell with one of her two sons in her arms as she walked up the stairs from her car to her house on Sunday. “At some stage I’ll have a statement for you guys, just not right now,” husband Scott told reporters.
Last week, FBI agents searched the Broadwell home and seized several boxes of documents.
Prosecutors are still deciding whether to pursue charges against Ms Broadwell, 40, for mishandling classified documents or allegedly taking secret files from government buildings – AFP
