David Petraeus

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  HOBOKEN, N.J., March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Semperis , a pioneer in identity-driven cyber resilience, today announced that its annual (Hybrid Identity Protection Conference (HIP Conf) , will take place November 13-14 in New Orlean at Mardi Gras World.
• "Cyber threat actors no longer break in, they log in," said Mickey Bresman, CEO, Semperis.
• In 2017, I created the HIP Conf for IAM professionals to share information about the importance of securing hybrid AD environments and to learn from one another.
• ), a Partner at KKR and former Director of the CIA, spoke at last year's conference in New York.

• On Thursday, January 25th at 6 p.m., the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation will host Retired U.S. Army General David H. Petraeus for a benefit event to raise funds for NOVA's Student Success Fund.
• ANNANDALE, Va., Dec. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- On Thursday, January 25th at 6 p.m., the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation will host Retired U.S. Army General David H. Petraeus for a benefit event to raise funds for NOVA's Student Success Fund.
• Petraeus will discuss the recently published book he co-wrote, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.
• The NOVA Foundation Student Success Fund was established to assist students facing unexpected emergency expenses that could derail their education and could force them to stop out or drop out of college.

• The federal charges – the first against a former president – listed 37 counts of obstruction of justice and wrongful retention of classified documents after Trump left office in January 2021.
• The unfairness claim often involves a comparison to Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 presidential opponent, who was not charged in an investigation into her handling of government documents.

A former president can be charged

• Trump and his allies have argued that it is completely inappropriate for the former president to be charged.
• But no part of the Constitution, no statute and no Supreme Court precedent sets a former chief executive above the law.

Not a partisan prosecution

• Navigating these shoals is challenging because under the U.S. Constitution, the executive branch is headed by the sitting president, and it includes the Justice Department.
• That means there will always be at least a potential risk of “weaponization” of prosecution – or just the risk of that allegation – when the defendant is in a different party from the president.
• In contrast to President Thomas Jefferson’s detailed direction of the prosecution of political adversary and former Vice President Aaron Burr, there is no credible evidence that Biden is telling the prosecutor what to do.

The charges have merit

• Trump claims that he had an “absolute right” to take the documents.
• In reality, when Trump left office he lost the presidency’s authority to possess presidential records and national security documents.
• By law, documents of former presidents and national defense information must be stored by the National Archives or other federal agencies.

Not comparable to Biden, Pence or Clinton

• The law concerning government documents and national defense information requires willfulness for criminal liability – basically, keeping documents you know you should not.
• Other statutes criminalize lying to investigators, other obstruction of justice and getting others to commit crimes.
• In Trump’s 2016 campaign, he criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her use of private email systems, including to send emails with classified information.

Echoes of Reality Winner and Edward Snowden

• Those include cases in which people once had lawful access to secrets but knowingly stole and shared them to make political points.
• A junior Air Force linguist, Reality Winner, unlawfully removed one top-secret document and sent it to the media because she thought the public should know about it.
• Winner was prosecuted during Trump’s presidency and sentenced to five years in prison.
• One of the same Espionage Act provisions under which Trump has been charged with over 30 counts.
• Both Trump and Petraeus were charged under the same Espionage Act sections and the same law criminalizing lying to investigators.

• ), a Partner at KKR and former Director of the CIA, has joined the company as a strategic advisor to help bolster identity threat detection and response in the public sector.
• "Few have a first-hand understanding of the complexity and high-stakes nature of cyberwar like General Petraeus," said Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman.
• "General Petraeus is a champion of cybersecurity technology innovation, and I'm thrilled to have his strategic support as Semperis continues to see rapid adoption from the public sector."
• Semperis hosts the award-winning Hybrid Identity Protection conference and podcast series ( www.hipconf.com ) and built the free Active Directory security assessment tool, Purple Knight ( www.purple-knight.com ).