That or she’ll be paid off.
Never underestimate how much money talks, it is far easier for them to be paid into silence......with no source, the story dies within a few weeks tops.
Happens all the time.
The whole affair stinks. (excuse the pun)
When are the repubes going to grow a pair and start doing their damn job?
The simplest explanation is that the affair started without any outside interference, but was known to the Obama administration. With this information, Petraeus became a useful idiot for the Administration, which explains him (a) failing to protect his people when they were under attack in Benghazi and (b) spinning the Obama story about the video. I don’t think the Obama Administration leaked the story. They would have preferred to keep Petraeus right where he was, where they could manipulate him through blackmail. He chose to bailout when it was clear that the instability of his mistress was bringing heat down on him from the FBI and was about to break out into the open.