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Pious Perverts See other Pious Perverts Articles Title: Hacker Forces Colin Powell To Deny Affair http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/corinacretu1.jpg http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/imagecache/175xUnlimited/photos/cpowellfrontimage.jpg AUGUST 1--As a notorious hacker seeks to distribute very personal e-mails sent to Colin Powell by a female Romanian diplomat, the retired general is denying that he engaged in an extramarital affair with the woman while he served as Secretary of State, though he recently advised her to delete all their online exchanges, The Smoking Gun has learned. In a statement addressing his relationship with Corina Cretu, a member of the European Parliament who previously held a series of senior posts in the Romanian government, Powell, 76, wrote that he has known Cretu for about 10 years, having first met her when I was the Secretary of State and she was an assistant to the President of Romania. We occasionally attended the same diplomatic and international meetings. Powell, who served in President George W. Bushs cabinet for four years, said that he kept in touch with Cretu, 45, by e-mail after leaving the State Department in January 2005. Over time the emails became of a very personal nature, but did not result in an affair. Those type of emails ended a few years ago. There was no affair then and there is not one now, Powell added. Powell issued his statement (a copy of which can be found here) to TSG after a reporter sought to question him about the content of Cretus 2010 and 2011 correspondence, which was posted online this week. This note responds to a series of posts placed by a hacker, Powell wrote. While TSG did not mention Cretu (seen above) by name or refer to a possible romance, Powells swift denial of an affair--especially one possibly conducted with an official of a foreign government while he served as Americas chief diplomat--was clearly prompted by the sensitive nature of the e-mails sent to his personal AOL account. And likely by a desire on Powells part to address any appearance of impropriety, especially in light of last years crash-and-burn by retired General David Petraeus. In the very personal correspondence cited by Powell, Cretu calls him the love of her life and describes a relationship that spanned more than a decade. The 2010-2011 e-mails would leave most readers with the clear impression that the forlorn Cretu is writing about the twilight of a lengthy romance. As reported here in March, Powells e-mail and Facebook accounts were illegally accessed by Guccifer, the hacker who has spent the last eight months breaking into the online accounts of Clinton, Bush, and Obama administration officials; former FBI agents; defense contractors; Bush family members and friends; and assorted public figures, including journalist Carl Bernstein, author Candace Bushnell, and John Doerr, the billionaire venture capitalist. Immediately after the Powell hacks, Guccifer sent some of the pilfered e-mails and photos to a variety of news outlets (and the anti-secrecy site cryptome.org, which posted the material). This week--four months after the online break-ins--Guccifer returned, like a nasty rash, to continue vexing Powell. Armed with the Cretu correspondence, which Guccifer apparently copied during the initial AOL incursion, the hacker uploaded 10 e-mails sent to Powell and a variety of photos to Google Drive. Then, in a bid to expose the material directly to Powells Facebook followers (his page has nearly 87,000 likes), the hacker posted a message on Powells wall that included a link to the Google Drive page. The posting--which was subsequently spotted by Powells staff and deleted--had been uploaded via the Facebook account of a retired general with whom Powell had once worked. After hacking into the mans account, Guccifer masqueraded as the general when making his post to Powells Facebook wall. While in control of the second generals Facebook account, Guccifer also posted an update to the mans page that included a photo of Cretu and a link to the Google Drive collection of e-mails and photos. As of this morning, the post remains on the page of the former military commander, who did not return TSG phone messages. Oddly, five of the mans friends have liked the post made in his name by Guccifer. When told that the update and Google Drive link remained publicly available on the second generals Facebook page, Powell replied in an e-mail that, Yes, we havent been able to reach him. Early this morning, Guccifer added a second update to the generals Facebook page. It contained a new Google Drive link that led to e-mails and photos--some dating back eight years--that were lifted from Cretus newly hacked Yahoo e-mail account. The online bandit copied correspondence exchanged earlier this week by Powell and Cretu about Guccifer ransacking Powells AOL account and attempting to disseminate e-mails and photos via Facebook links. At one point, Powell warned Cretu that the hacker may have lots of your emails, maybe not. He then advised, so best to delete all between us. In an e-mail to TSG, Powell explained, In light of what was happening it seems obvious to ask Ms. Cretu to delete emails. Referring to personal photos Cretu e-mailed to him, Powell wrote, She sent photos on a regular basis. Lots of family photos with her nieces, who she adores, family reunions, formal business sessions, her wedding and some bathing suit photos
Never anything improper. This was a friendship that electronically became very personal and then back to normal, said Powell. In his statement, Powell--who has been married to his wife Alma for 50 years--reported that he and Cretu remain friends and are in touch, but that they have only seen each other once or twice over the past eight years. On those occasions, Powell noted, Cretu traveled to Washington, D.C. for group conferences that he also attended. At a July 2011 conference, Cretu and Powell posed together for a photo (as seen above) that Cretu later uploaded to her web site. Cretu, who did not respond to a TSG e-mail seeking comment about the Guccifer hack, was married late last year. After serving as a presidential advisor and a senator in the Romanian parliament, Cretu, a member of the countrys Social Democratic party, was elected in 2007 to the European Parliament. One of 32 representatives from Romania, Cretu is vice-chair of Parliaments Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. When she worked as a presidential advisor, Cretu was part of the Romanian delegation that greeted Powell and President George W. Bush when they visited Bucharest in 2002. Photos on Cretus web site show her with Powell and First Lady Laura Bush and Powell and Adrian Nastase, then Romanias prime minister. The following year, Cretu accompanied Romanias president in meetings with Bush and Powell. In March 2004, she was part of the Romanian delegation that traveled to Washington for a ceremony, overseen by Powell, marking the former Soviet bloc nations accession to NATO. In his statement, Powell noted that after leaving the State Department, he frequently gave Cretu advice on the prospects of finding a position with the UN or other international organizations. He concluded, I am pleased that she is having a successful career. I am pleased that she is recently and happily married. (1 page) Poster Comment: Colin Powell is a compromised socialist traitor just like all of the people he's worked for like the Bush clan. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 7.
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C'mon Hackers!!!!! Get Hillary's "love notes" from Huma!!!! :-)
I, Carlos Danger, demand that this thread end immediately!!!!!!!!
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