Former CIA Director David Petraeus sentenced

Former CIA director and Price School of Public Policy Judge Widney Professor David Petraeus was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine on Thursday.

In February 2015, Petraeus pleaded guilty to sharing classified information with his biographer and former mistress, Paula Broadwell, in 2011.

According to CNN, the 5-by-8 inch notebooks Petraeus provided Broadwell included information from national security meetings and the identities of covert officers.

Petraeus avoided jail time as part of his plea deal with the Department of Justice because the information he provided Broadwell was never revealed to the public or published in her biography of him.

Petraeus’ original sentence ordered him to pay $40,000 until federal Judge David Kessler increased the amount to $100,000 in order to “reflect the seriousness of the offense,” according to CNN.

Michael O’ Hanlon, a close friend of Petraeus said that the former military leaders’ actions regarding the leak should not define his career.

“The personal shortcomings ultimately, I would hope, will be seen as in the same light as Grant’s whiskey or Eisenhower’s mistress, or whatever else,” O’Hanlon told CNN. “The inevitable human dimensions of people who are still great Americans.”

Petraeus retired as a four-star general and leader of U.S. troops in the Iraq War to become the head the CIA in 2011. He retired one year later after his affair with Broadwell was revealed.

Petraeus joined the USC faculty in October 2013 and serves as a faculty adviser for the USC Veterans Association.