The FBI (Geheime Staatspolizei, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, whatever) was told to do opposition research of ALL possible candidates who might pose a threat to the regime. In the course of their dirt-digging they found something, and this is their cover story. And once compromised, they had no intention of getting rid of him; he had become far more valuable to the regime.
Those questions aren't of the slightest interest to anyone who has any inkling of the Byzantine labyrinth of Washington intrigue and the workings of the secret police. The interesting question is why did Patraeus signal his reason for leaving? He did not need to do so, and if he had only said he was leaving for personal reasons the regime would almost certainly have been willing to let it go at that. Now he's disgraced himself and harmed his wife and family. He did not need to make them pay that price. The question, again, is WHY?
Why? Because he had no choice. If he’d resigned for family reasons, the FBI investigation would have surfaced, magically, and Petraeus would have been left with no honor at all. By confronting the blackmail (notice that I use the word rather freely), he short-circuited the damage Obama could do. Which also means that Petraeus has no reason to lie when questioned (as he will be) by Congress about Benghazi.
” The interesting question is why did Patraeus signal his reason for leaving? He did not need to do so, and if he had only said he was leaving for personal reasons the regime would almost certainly have been willing to let it go at that. Now he’s disgraced himself and harmed his wife and family. He did not need to make them pay that price. The question, again, is WHY?”
Maybe he is mad at the adultress and wanted to expose her...? Maybe he has some info that she turned him in ( a la Monica L and Linda Tripp),,,He had to know once he said “affair” people would be sniffing out “who” it was. ...I think he is paying her back for setting him up.
Because the deeper you get into petraeus, the closer you get to earlier administrations...and betrayal. Do not forget that it was the nsa and state who tried to utterly destroy Bush on Iraq and Iran.
Where did saddam’s weapons go BEFORE our teams had a chance to search for them, and who oversaw that project?