Jansing and Co   |  November 13, 2012

Understanding the Petraeus email trail

Richard Lui breaks down the email trail between General Petraeus and Paula Broadwell and  the trick they used to communicate.

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>>> new details about the fbi 's e-mail trail that led to the resignation of cia director general david petraeus . richard, the fbi says that general petraeus and paula broadwell tried to cover their tracks.

>> chris, it's a tactic that terrorists and teenagers have used for a better part of the decade. you create one web-based e-mail account like yahoo! using an anonymous name. what they do, they write e-mails but then never say them, they save them as drafts. using them in a digital drop box. the members of that secret group can logon to read those drafts. fbi agents believe that's what cia director david petraeus and mistress paula broadwell did with a gmail account that petraeus created. it's a difficult tactic to trace. the road it took to get to its destination. government can get around that by subpoenaing information from that e-mail provider. that information can help reveal a all of the e-mail accounts used at a single location. "new york times" saying that the fbi was able to trace broadwell use age because they figured out the computers that she was using. now if they were sent over a cia e-mail account, needless to say, such communications would be widely apparent. double and triple backups are scoured con about t eed constantly.

>> bob smith , really? that's the best you could come with up. richard.

>> thank you.