Petraeus On Mishandling Classified Information: ‘I Made a Serious Mistake’

Gen. David Petraeus faces a unique hurdle while auditioning for the job of Donald Trump’s secretary of state: His guilty plea for mishandling classified information.

The former CIA director and retired general insisted Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he has learned from what he called a “serious mistake” while seeking to place the scandal in the context of his career.

“Five years ago I made a serious mistake,” Petraeus said. “I acknowledged it, I apologized for it, I paid a very heavy price for it and I’ve learned from it. And again, they’ll have to factor that in and also obviously 38 and a half years of otherwise fairly, in some cases, unique service to our country in uniform and at the CIA.”

 

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