article_snippet.sent: Petraeus the CIA will not go to jail for giving Petraeus classified material while his biographer mistress was working on a book about Petraeus, a judge ruled today.
article_snippet.sent: While Petraeus had agreed two months ago to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, Petraeus formally entered Petraeus plea during Thursday 's hearing.
article_snippet.sent: In the previous agreement, prosecutors said that while Broadwell was writing Broadwell book in 2011, Petraeus gave Broadwell eight binders of classified material Petraeus had improperly kept from Petraeus time as the top military commander in Afghanistan.
article_snippet.sent: Days later, Petraeus took eight binders of classified material he had improperly kept from his time as the top military commander in Afghanistan back to Petraeus house.
article_snippet.sent: Among the secret information contained in the 'black books' were the names of covert operatives, the coalition war strategy and notes about Petraeus discussions with President Barack Obama and the National Security Council, prosecutors said.
article_snippet.sent: eight binders of classified material he had improperly kept from his time as the top military commander in Afghanistan were later seized by the FBI in an April 2013 search of Petraeus Arlington, Virginia, home, where Petraeus had kept eight binders of classified material he had improperly kept from his time as the top military commander in Afghanistan in the unlocked drawer of a desk in a ground-floor study.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors said that after resigning from the CIA in November 2012, Petraeus had signed a form falsely attesting Petraeus had no classified material.
article_snippet.sent: Petraeus also lied to the FBI agents by denying Petraeus supplied the information to Broadwell, according to court documents.
article_snippet.sent: Petraeus, a four-star general who served as commander of the U.S. Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned from the CIA in 2012 when Affair emerged but always denied criminal wrongdoing.