Former CIA director David Petraeus reportedly shared highly classified information with reporters, Politico reported.

An FBI agent requested a search warrant for Petraeus's Virginia home in 2013. The agent told a federal magistrate that the agency had two audio recordings where Petraeus talked to reporters about issues authorities said were "top secret."

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"There is a recorded conversation between Petraeus and, inter alia, Washington Post reporters, which, based on the information and belief of your affiant, occurred in or about March 2011," Special Agent Diane Wehner wrote in a document obtained by Politico.

"In the conversation, Petraeus stated, 'I would really love to be on background as a senior military officer.' Later in the recording, Petraeus discusses sensitive military campaigns and operations, some of which, on the basis of a preliminary review ... is believed to contain classified information, including information at the Top Secret level."

In the second recording, Wehner wrote in the affidavit that Petraeus requested the information he gave "be attributed to a 'defense official familiar with Petraeus's activities," during a conversation with a reporter.

"Petraeus was concerned about the sensitivity of the information he was providing, and wanted to ensure the information was not attributed to him because it would come out after he was confirmed as director of the CIA," Wehner wrote.

The former CIA director pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information.

The audio files were from a November 2012 FBI search of the home of Paula Broadwell, Petraeus's biographer with whom he'd had an affair.

The affidavit unsealed Tuesday said Broadwell "advised [the FBI] she never received classified information from Petraeus." She reportedly had an agreement that she would not write about classified information in the book.

"I don’t doubt it was the practice, but it is outside the bounds of formal policy," said Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists.

"One can see how Petraeus might have been led to proceed further along the path of providing additional information on the condition it not be quoted. He was bending a rule that had already been bent."