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Hillary Rodham Clinton answers questions at a news conference at the United Nations, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Clinton conceded that she should have used a government email to conduct business as secretary of state, saying her decision was simply a matter of "convenience." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Public officials break laws to avoid scrutiny

By Victor Davis Hanson

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

TIM CONSTANTINE: Hillary, Petraeus, Brian Williams, accountability

By Tim Constantine

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: David Petraeus got off easy

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Gen. David H. Petraeus

David Petraeus to plead guilty to removing classified information during affair

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

File-This April 9, 2008, file photo shows Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. A U.S. official says the Justice Department is weighing bringing criminal charges against the former CIA Director over the handling of classified information. The official says investigators have presented senior-level Justice Department officials such as Attorney General Eric Holder with information on the case to make a decision. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Feinstein to Justice Department: Don’t charge Gen. Petraeus, he has ‘suffered enough’

The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Feb. 2, 2012, file photo shows then-CIA Director David Petraeus testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus has resigned because of an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Dianne Feinstein to Justice Department: Don’t charge David Petraeus, he has ‘suffered enough’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this June 29, 2010 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

David Petraeus in Justice Department crosshairs for criminal charges

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., responds to a reporter's question on Iraq during a media availability after he delivered an evening lecture at the U.S. Naval War College Thursday, June 12, 2014 in Newport, RI. McCain delivered a blistering assessment of the U.S response to the developing military situation in Iraq from the Senate floor earlier today. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

McCain: Todd’s hot mic comments ‘should be embarrassing for MSNBC’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Sen. John McCain has suggested David Petraeus be put in charge of a new national security team to deal with Islamic militants in Iraq. (associated press)

White House reporters caught on tape mocking John McCain

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets with Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran, Iran. Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and claimed to regain partial control of a city near the Syrian border Wednesday, trying to blunt a weeklong offensive by militants who diplomats fear may have abducted some 100 foreign workers. Al-Maliki, meanwhile, struck an optimistic tone after soldiers abandoned their posts in the wake of the initial offensive, promising his nation would teach the attackers a "lesson." "We have now started our counteroffensive, regaining the initiative and striking back," al-Maliki said. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

U.S. lawmakers growing weary of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this June 23, 2011, file photo, then-CIA Director-designate Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus has resigned because of an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Petraeus issues warning on Iraq: U.S. can not be ‘the air force for Shia militias’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Former CIA director Petraeus visits ND oil patch

Associated Press

** FILE ** In this June 23, 2011, file photo, then-CIA Director-designate Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus has resigned because of an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

David Petraeus takes salary cut for professor gig — to $1

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this June 29, 2010 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

David Petraeus lands $150K teaching gig — for one class

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

An email from then-CIA Director David Petraeus is among the 99 pages of emails regarding Benghazi released by the White House on May 15, 2013. Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. The White House released 99 pages of emails and a single page of hand-written notes made by Petraeus' deputy, Mike Morell, after a meeting at the White House the day before Rice's appearance. (Associated Press)

Dems rally behind White House on Benghazi

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

Paula Broadwell, who ended up with more than a professional relationship with David H. Petraeus, conducted extensive interviews with critics and supporters for her book. “All In,” however, has been described as “part hagiography and part defense” of Mr. Petraeus’ strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Paula Broadwell turns to faith, family to smooth over affair

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, then-commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, shakes hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," in a July 13, 2011, photo from the ISAF's Flickr website. (Associated Press/International Security Assistance Force) ** FILE **

David Petraeus: Sorry, affair ‘was my own doing’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird on Feb. 8, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (Associated Press)

Kerry skirts question on arming Syrian rebels

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

**FILE** Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, listens during a March 26, 2012, news conference at the Pentagon in Washington. (Associated Press)

Gen. Allen cleared in Petraeus email case

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘My Share of the Task’

By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times