Here’s what I don’t understand about this—was there no background investigation done before he took the job at the agency? No polygraph? Nothing that would have uncovered the affair prior? I’m pretty familiar with the process and I find it hard to believe. Both that they wouldn’t investigate and that they wouldn’t have known prior to his start about the affair.
We live in a Banana Republic now. King Obama had his reasons for wanting Petraeus to be CIA Director. Nothing would get in the way of that.
There is no way this affair wasn’t known. I have been in similar situations at the office and it is very noticeable when the boss is spending a lot of private time with a particular young hottie. They knew and chose him anyway.
Yes, exactly. They knew. Not a reason to resign. I could see if he began the affair after he started at the agency and it was something that he was hiding from them and made him vulnerable to blackmail. I don’t think that’s the case here. If he had a proper background investigation, he would have admitted to extramarital affair(s) during the poly.
But that information would not have necessarily gone to anyone else—the CIA does their own background investigations. Then the FBI found out. Not sure I believe they “stumbled” on it. Maybe they were directed to look for dirt by someone who knew the rumors and wanted blackmail material.