Petraeus was distracted when O wanted him to head CIA? Didn’t think it thru, could certainly have retired then.
He did Retire ... Director of the CIA was a brand new Gig... as a Civilian.
There are TWO different Worlds, Military and Civilian... the Military lives under the rules of BOTH and the Civilian just the Civilian set of rules.
He Retired so he is a Civilian unless he is an Inactive Reservist (don’t think that was the case)... the rules get a bit murkier after that.
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Please anyone correct me if I am wrong, I was Enlisted. Officers are appointed... they may have a different set of rules but I think I am right.
Once somebody is that high up in the military/intel/black ops business, they don’t really ‘retire’.
With all the conjecture going on, it might be noted that in that world, those closest to it might frequently not know what’s going on, but have multiple ‘games’ in play.
One learns in the military that if you want to know what’s going on, don’t believe anything you read in the press.
With the intel world, it’s even more circumspect.
The league of games being played internationally over the past 4-12 years have been so veiled, where technology can document things worldwide in minutes, it’s really hard to tell what is going on with all these resignations/firings/replacements.