美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-11-17
时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2012年(十一)月
英语课
Hey, I’m Anderson Cooper. Welcome to the podcast. The latest on the General Pateaus, a CIA’s sex scandal. We begin tonight as we do every night. “Keeping Them Honest” looking for facts, not playing favorites, offering our opinions or pulling for Republicans or Democrats 1. You can get that on plenty of other cable channels. Just real reporting with one goal to find the truth. We think that’s, there’s value in that. And we begin with breaking news and what the FBI was doing last night at Paula Broadwell’s home. She is the woman who had the affair with General Pateaus. Details on that in a moment.
Also tonight, “Keeping Them Honest” on the new twist and turns in the Petraeus sex scandal. His affair with Broadwell led him to resigning as CIA director. You know that already. Now another four-star general, John Allen, is connected to the scandal. We will also look at who’s who in this growing scandal. We’ll map out the key players and connect some of the dots. First, the big question tonight is who authorized 2 the investigation 3 which led to Petraeus’ stepping down and why?
We know his extramarital affair was discovered when this woman, Jill Kelley, complained about anonymous 4 and what might be considered mildly harassing 5 e-mails. Well, new tonight, a source tells CNN that Kelley first mentioned the e-mails in a casual conversation with an FBI agent in May whom she knew. A casual conversation. The source tells us the FBI agent said, let me check it out. The FBI has been on the case since then, and now Kelley finds herself in the middle of this drama. New tonight, we hear her voice for the first
time in a 911 call to Tampa police over the weekend. She called to complain about the people outside her house. Listen.
“You know, I don’t know if by any chance, cause I’m an honorary council general so I have inviolability so I shouldn’t, they should not be able to cross my property. I don’t know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well, but now, because that’s against the law to cross my property because this is not, like, you know, um, it’s inviolable. “
“All right. No problem. I will let the officers know.”
“Thank you”
Honorary Diplomatic Council. Jill Kelley talking with Tampa police asking for diplomatic protection. That’s not something she should expect. We’ll dig into who Miss Kelley is in a moment. First, as I mentioned, there is a lot of twists and turns and a lot of people with ties to this scandal. Let’s lay it all out for you right now. Retired 6 General David Petraeus resigned on Friday after admitting an affair. The other woman is again, Paula Broadwell, who co-wrote his biography, the best-selling book “All In: The Education of General Petraeus” This past spring, as we mentioned moments ago, Broadwell sent at the time anonymous harassing e-mails to Jill Kelley.
As I mentioned, Kelley talked to her FBI friend launching the investigation. Turns out the initial agent on the case, according to the Wall Street Journal was removed from the case when he reportedly became obsessed 7 with the case and even sent shirtless photos of himself to Miss Kelley. It gets stranger. New today, we’ve learned Kelley also received some inappropriately flirtatious 8 e-mails, self-described, from four-star Marine 9 General John Allen. He denies an extramarital affair with Kelley and insists he did nothing wrong. But Pentagon is investigating thousands of documents and e-mails, some of them were apparently 10 flirtatious. Turns out both Allen and Petraeus stepped in to help Kelley’s twin sister, Natalie, in a custody 11 battle with her ex-husband. Both generals wrote letters on the behalf of the sister.
Here’s a photo of Petraeus with the twin sisters. Petraeus wrote to the court, quote, “ We have on many occasions observed Natalie and her son, including when, we hosted them in the Kelley family for Christmas dinner this past year. In each case we have seen a very loving relationship.” We removed the son’s name, obviously, to protect his identity as a minor 12. There you have it. Who’s who in the scandal along with the latest twists and turns. There’s a lot to discuss tonight. Back to our breaking news, the FBI search last night. Agents spent about five hours at Paula Broadwell’s North Carolina home, took away boxes full of documents and computers. We now have new details on why they were there. Joining me now on the phone is CNN national security contributor, Fran Townsend, a member of the CIA’s External Advisory 13 Committee. Fran, as you know, recently visited Libya with her employer, MacAndrews and Forbes. Also with us, CNN intelligence correspondent Suzanne Kelley, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, and CNN contributor and former CIA officer, Bob Baer. So Fran, I want to start with you. You’re learning new information about what the FBI was doing at Broadwell’s house last night.
1 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 authorized
a.委任的,许可的
- An administrative order is valid if authorized by a statute.如果一个行政命令得到一个法规的认可那么这个命令就是有效的。
3 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 anonymous
adj.无名的;匿名的;无特色的
- Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
- The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
5 harassing
v.侵扰,骚扰( harass的现在分词 );不断攻击(敌人)
- The court ordered him to stop harassing his ex-wife. 法庭命令他不得再骚扰前妻。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- It was too close to be merely harassing fire. 打得这么近,不能完全是扰乱射击。 来自辞典例句
6 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
7 obsessed
adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的
- He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
- The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。
8 flirtatious
adj.爱调情的,调情的,卖俏的
- a flirtatious young woman 卖弄风情的年轻女子
- Her flirtatious manners are intended to attract. 她的轻浮举止是想引人注意。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 marine
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
- Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
- When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
10 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
11 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。