As part of his deal, Petraeus agreed not to contest the set of facts laid out by the government. 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. Petraeus was brought in by President George W. Bush to command multinational forces in Iraq in 2007, a period when the war began to turn in favor of the U.S. Former’s CIA director David Petraeus career was destroyed by the extramarital affair with his biographer.
