MSNBC: CIA Director Petraeus Resigns; Cites Extra-Marital Affair

MSNBC | 11/09/2012 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

Breaking now.

[newzjunkey]

Odd turn of events.

[dfwgator]

I don’t think it would have mattered....the Dems had pretty well killed Romney with “He’s a nasty Rich guy “ campaign.

Romney was winning, until Obama coined the term "Romneysia"; that was the turning point, after that the momentum shifted back to Obama.

[Gaffer]

Well,.... I hope she at least had bit ti.......er, uh, breasteses!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I still don't understand why he needs to leave. If he was a Conservative Republican he wouldn't have been working for Obama. Would put a crimp in his future political plans but not hurt him too bad with Dems. He can't become baggage on this administration as they've now been given a free pass to do whatever they want with no reelection or accountability to worry about. An affair turns most sensible people off but it was proved n Tuesday what we think doesn't matter one bit in Washington. Decency doesn't rule anymore. With the Dems it's almost a plus. Got to be more to this story.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I still don't understand why he needs to leave. If he was a Conservative Republican he wouldn't have been working for Obama. Would put a crimp in his future political plans but not hurt him too bad with Dems. He can't become baggage on this administration as they've now been given a free pass to do whatever they want with no reelection or accountability to worry about. An affair turns most sensible people off but it was proved n Tuesday what we think doesn't matter one bit in Washington. Decency doesn't rule anymore. With the Dems it's almost a plus. Got to be more to this story.

[Cboldt]

-- Petraeus is being set up as the Benghazi fall-guy. --

No matter if he was pushed to resign, or he is getting out before TSHTF, or this is just a convenience coincidence; the memory of Petraus will be that the CIA is the source of "them movie made them do it," as well as any intelligence failure to know of the threat and to act in defense after the attack started.

Departed ones have very broad shoulders.

[SpaceBar]

Seventy years ago I would have said this has Heydrich’s fingerprints all over it.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Within hours of Panetta saying there were no armed military assets near Benghazi.

Obviously, the Administration told Petraeus to lie, he said no, they brought out the affair.

[mikrofon]

Bang-I-see scandal

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Petreaus Out. Hillary Out. Holder Out. Even a dead Secret Service agent, 5 days before the election over a ‘marital affair’ yeah right.. Even the commie SCUM can’t handle living with abandoning Americans to die in Benghazi. Oh wait, John Kerry can.

[dragnet2]

A CIA director putting himself in a position to be blackmailed makes no sense.

Sure it does.

It was found Bush’s homeland security boss Chertoff, had people who’d entered the country illegally, during war time, wandering around the inside of his private residence.

Ya talk about the potential for blackmail? This was over the top.

[RoosterRedux]

That's a scary thought.

Fortunately, she couldn't get confirmed.

[Cboldt]

Valerie Plame strikes again.

[Gator113]

Was the affair with a woman......?

[TChris]

Isn't it one of the simplest and most frequently used tactics of foreign intelligence agencies to arrange for "extra-marital affairs" (read: bait them into cheating) to take down their target? ...or at least gain strong leverage against him?

I suspect that might be what happened here.

[Batman11]

This is cover up bullshit! Make him testify!!!! Reps. Issa, Gowdy, Chafetz I implore you to take this investigation to the mat. Subpoena everybody! Make them appear! Make them take the fing 5th! Make these bastards pay!! Do it for revenge!!

[Pete]

I wonder if up to now, someone was holding this over his head in order to influence him, e.g. Benghazi, and in order to remove it, he simply went public. Now he is free to speak.

It's got be something like that.

[Impala64ssa]

I guess the headlines in the newspapers in my area will read “Local Boy Screws Up!”

[logitech]

I don’t believe Hillary, Holder and the rest are leaving for no reason. I’m not sure,but I think we have lost more Navy Seals this year than ever before.22 in one helicopter crash.

[stormer]

Are you kidding? Conduct unbecoming is a serious charge.