Former CIA chief sentenced to two years' probation for leaking information

David Petraeus, former director of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was sentenced on Thursday to two years' probation and fined 100,000 dollars for leaking classified information.

Petraeus, once a well-known general who oversaw operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and was touted as a potential presidential candidate, resigned as CIA director in November 2012 after the relationship with his biographer and lover Paula Broadwell became public.

According to court papers, prosecutors recommended two years of probation and a 40,000-dollar fine. But a federal judge in Charlotte, North Carolina increased the fine to "reflect seriousness of the offense."

Such a sentence allowed Petraeus to escape jail time by paying the fine and serving two years on probation.

Petraeus pleaded guilty in March to one federal charge for giving 5-by-8 inch black notebooks containing some classified information to Broadwell, who wrote "All in: The Education of General David Petraeus" in 2012.

Prosecutors said that those notebooks included notes from national security meetings, the identities of covert officers and more classified documents.

Those binders were later seized by U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in a search of Petraeus' home in Arlington, Virginia, where he had kept them in the unlocked drawer of a desk, according to prosecutors. Enditem