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MSNBC: CIA Director Petraeus Resigns; Cites Extra-Marital Affair
MSNBC | 11/09/2012 | n/a

Posted on 11/09/2012 12:02:18 PM PST by Pyro7480

Breaking now.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; bhocia; broadwell; cia; davidpetraeus; libya; navyseals; petraeus; petraeusaffair; resignation; scandals; threatmatrix; threatmatrixbenghazi; vanity
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To: dfwgator
. . . you really don’t see a CIA director being potential blackmail bait as a problem?

Doesn't matter what I think. Name anybody in the BO inner circle who values national security over some imaginary problem like, say, global warming.

161 posted on 11/09/2012 12:32:37 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: dinoparty

Silliest question ever: Do we know he was married?


162 posted on 11/09/2012 12:32:45 PM PST by Museum Twenty (If every truth & hidden motivation were to tumble out, not one supporter would turn against him.)
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To: mylife

Remember the Secret Service agent who ‘committed suicide’ five days before the election, ‘over an extramarital affair’ too? What did he know about Obama’s whereabouts and actions during Benghazi, hmmmmm... Time for Team 0bama to find a new narrative for further rat ship jumpers.


163 posted on 11/09/2012 12:33:10 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: molson209

Bingo!


164 posted on 11/09/2012 12:34:18 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: maggief

I thought the military had a honor code for Pension benefits?


165 posted on 11/09/2012 12:34:25 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
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To: Eva

Actually, who’s to say there was an affair at all? Perhaps he made up the story, cleared it with the wife, and is using it as a pretext to get out of the Obama cabinet before the SHTF.


166 posted on 11/09/2012 12:34:31 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: CaptainK

Don’t know but could be a spy.


167 posted on 11/09/2012 12:34:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Pyro7480

Hey Petraeus, hows you Benghazi hanging?

My grandfather taught me that there is one thing that no man can not take from you, your integrity/honor. He said that to lose it, you had to give it away and once lost, you can never get it back.

Do suffer much, Petraeus.


168 posted on 11/09/2012 12:35:32 PM PST by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Romney & Ryan.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Pyro7480

Now we know why he was so flexible on supporting the “offensive video” B.S.


169 posted on 11/09/2012 12:35:47 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: SpaceBar

agree, diversion


170 posted on 11/09/2012 12:35:47 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
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To: jeeperz

There is no man in a high position who had an affair, no matter how guilty he felt, no matter whether he told his wife or didnt, who would decide he needed to resign from his high position.

No way, no how.

Unless someone found out and threatened to blow it sky high unless he stepped down. Or threatened to blow sky high even if he resigned.

Which meant if he wanted to escape blackmail, he would be thus forced to resign and confess. No man does that otherwise. His hand was forced.


171 posted on 11/09/2012 12:35:50 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Pyro7480

What “convenient” timing ...


172 posted on 11/09/2012 12:35:56 PM PST by clamper1797 (I mourn for the America I grew up in ..fought for ..and loved ..July 4 1776- June 28 2012)
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To: Pyro7480

It’s truly sad when the Director of the CIA can’t keep an extramarital affair secret.


173 posted on 11/09/2012 12:36:17 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: JennysCool

Petraeus left work at 6:00 while he knew the consulate was under attack to go see a private screening of Argo with Matt Damon!


174 posted on 11/09/2012 12:36:38 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: dfwgator
Karma for the bastard who was more concerned with what some stupid Florida Pastor was doing than protecting his troops.

Nah, that wasn't Petraeus that was some other General, can't think of his name right now though.

175 posted on 11/09/2012 12:36:38 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Vigilanteman

“If Petraeus really had an affair, it would be no cause for resignation or even embarrassment in the present administration.”

Blackmail, compromised...possibly within his own CIA. Someone was going public and he got out in front of it.


176 posted on 11/09/2012 12:36:49 PM PST by BlessingsofLiberty (Remember Brian Terry...)
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To: Gator113

hows-how’s


178 posted on 11/09/2012 12:37:16 PM PST by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Romney & Ryan.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Pete

He is killing two birds with one stone.


179 posted on 11/09/2012 12:37:23 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Pyro7480; All
how very, very convenient....when does the other shoes drop?
(more hollowing-out @ CIA & various intelligence Agencies)
...rem: O'Bozo's Comments to Putin's Henchman?
...after the election & 4 more years
...we'll be left blind again....it's Pearl Harbor redux

180 posted on 11/09/2012 12:37:23 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth. - RWR 8-)
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