Petraeus, Gone
Troy Senik, Ed. ·
November 9, 2012 at 9:19pm
This just in from NBC:
Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus has resigned, citing an extra-marital affair, NBC News reported.
"Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position," Petraeus said in his resignation letter. "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours."
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Nov '12
Re: Petraeus, Gone
Beat me to it. How unbelievable.
To those that have been stoking the conspiracy flames, please start remembering Occam's razor. What is more likely, a high ranking male government official is being used as a fall guy in an intricate cover up, or yet another powerful male official gets caught with his pants down, behaving like a hormone driven adolescent?
We now learn a sneaky, conniving journalist bedded the man she thought could help her make a name for herself, and after her book came out, she dumped his ass. Surprise, surprise.
At least she was somewhat attractive for a change.
Nov '12
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The FBI was investigating him for months because evidently his top-secret email had been compromised by this woman. If anyone is to blame over how this came out, it is Petraeus. He should have resigned awhile ago.
Jul '11
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Of course Thom but why not? I've seen blackmail and how folks respond although not on a national level. Information is power, and a commodity.
Nov '12
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Yes, but this investigation started last spring, well before Benghazi.
Mar '11
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Thom Williams
Beat me to it. How unbelievable.
I'm as surprised as you are that it was still there for the taking!
Sep '12
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Not JMR
I thought that too, because I always believed him to be honorable - the only hole is, would Obama so readily accept his resignation, if he thought Petraeus would now be free to be honest? The announcement then comes that Morell will be testifying instead of Petraeus. And we innocents think, well, surely the General will still be subpoenaed. But maybe the powers that be have decided he won't. And if he is, maybe Morell's testimony will contradict Petraeus' - and will people believe a guy who just admitted to an affair after 37 years of marriage?
Jul '11
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Yes Thom, Occam speaks to a typical powerful man with some weakness. The fact that it coincides with a cover up on Benghazi and an election adds another edge to the razor though.
Jul '11
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Thom, yes before the Benghazi. But not before we were running weapons to Syrian rebels which ties in to Benghazi of course. The arms running has been going on for a while.
Sep '10
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You're a winner, liberal jim. And it looks very, very bad and bereft of conspiracy theories or subtexts. The FBI nailed it, and he had to immediately resign for national security reasons.
Feb '11
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Some say that Petraeus avoids testimony before Congress by resigning. How? Since when does that curtail a Congressional subpeona? Come on Issa, get out the Subpeona, let's get it on. Let's make life as uncomfortable for the Obama administration as humanly possible. This scandal has the added benefit of being a legitmate subject worthy of intense scrutiny.
Jul '12
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Hate to spoil your fun but the Fauxcahontas aide that you were trying to peg as the girlfriend is none other than the wife. Mrs. Petraeus worked for Elizabeth Warren in the Obama administration.
The original statement said the resignation takes place immediately and that the General WILL NOT testify next week. And some of his "friends" said "he was really looking forward to testifying." I remember that feeling going into an IRS audit once...couldn't wait.
Jul '12
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How's this for painful...the local newspaper describes how this "young biographer of the General" credits her doctor husband with making it possible for her to traipse around Afghanistan after "the story" while he and her mother took care of her two young sons. Classy.
Ironic comments from well-known reviewers...sad, sad.
www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/24/2953553/petraeus-bio-takes-a-close-look.html
May '10
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No. It was a boobie trap. :) (sorry)
Oct '11
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Well Benghazi needed a little sex thrown into the mix- this should actually get more of the media to check it out.
Honestly though I doubt there's a direct correlation between the two. The closest may be tit-for tat (HI HO!) reprisal for the leaks that came out of the CIA a few weeks before the election. I could see sex with a journalist being considered primarily political capital by the Obama administration- they have a history of exploiting peoples' dirt. Meanwhile the NSA's keyword web bots are working over time this weekend.
Oct '11
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If this was a republican administration Oliver Stone woud be half way through his second draft by now.
Sep '10
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Babci: How's this for painful...the local newspaper describes how this "young biographer of the General" credits her doctor husband with making it possible for her to traipse around Afghanistan after "the story" while he and her mother took care of her two young sons. Classy.
Ironic comments from well-known reviewers...sad, sad.
www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/24/2953553/petraeus-bio-takes-a-close-look.html · 18 minutes ago
Rarely do I empathize with the guy in one of these messy public adulterous liasons but something smells in this story, and for her I have vanishingly little sympathy.
Feb '12
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I always sympathize with the families that are dragged into these revelation. But the troubling question I have is why was Paula reading his emails, how did she gain access to them and did they contain the info that was mysteriously leaked to the NYT? We still don't know who was leaking all that material and the White House was blamed. That was why the FBI was investigating. And the FBI discovered Paula was gaining access to Petraus email correspondence. Was she using him to gain access to security documents?
Pseudodionysius
Babci: How's this for painful...the local newspaper describes how this "young biographer of the General" credits her doctor husband with making it possible for her to traipse around Afghanistan after "the story" while he and her mother took care of her two young sons. Classy.
Ironic comments from well-known reviewers...sad, sad.
www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/24/2953553/petraeus-bio-takes-a-close-look.html · 18 minutes ago
Rarely do I empathize with the guy in one of these messy public adulterous liasons but something smells in this story, and for her I have vanishingly little sympathy. · 3 minutes ago
Mar '11
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The immediate post-election announcement suggests that the story was about to go public, but the reporter sat on it until post-election. Why would any reporter do that? (answer that yourself). This looks like a deal between reporter and Petraus/Obama to sit on this until post election. Who's the reporter?
Apr '11
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ConservativeWanderer
But Troy, bat boy does exist.
Don't be so naive. This is clearly photoshopped.
Apr '11
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Neither is her last name.