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CIA Director Resigns

tessaesque said:
I found this: But many of those involved in these affairs used their position to hide them/pay people off/otherwise break the law.
Dirty Politics: Top 10 Worst Politician Affairs

This list also indicates that those who resigned had also committed or been suspected of committing illegal activity in relation to their affairs:
List of federal political sex scandals in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


So if we're going off the argument that others have resigned I'd agree with you, but on the whole they seem to resign because their affairs were connected to illegal or illicit activity. If we carry that logic through, one would have to assume that Petreas was also involved in illegal or illicit activity.
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Do we know who he was having an affair with? If it was with the staffers or other lower-level employee, there's your out.
 
Fiddytree said:
Do we know who he was having an affair with? If it was with the staffers or other lower-level employee, there's your out.
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Admittedly, I know nothing more than what he's claimed. I have to assume given history that this affair was more scandalous than most if it is the primary motivation for his resignation, as the announcement claims.
 
tessaesque said:
Admittedly, I know nothing more than what he's claimed. I have to assume given history that this affair was more scandalous than most if it is the primary motivation for his resignation, as the announcement claims.
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Whatever else can, will, or should be said, the timing here is most peculiar and convenient.
 
tessaesque said:
Admittedly, I know nothing more than what he's claimed. I have to assume given history that this affair was more scandalous than most if it is the primary motivation for his resignation, as the announcement claims.
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Well, there are ethics concerns surrounding affairs with your underlings, and government officials, especially elected ones, have resigned over such matters.
 
I hope she was at least hot
 
sawyerloggingon said:
There is something very fishy about this, first hitlary says she is leaving and now Petraes bugs out. Somehow all this links to the Benghazi affair.
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Hilary Clinton has been planning to leave the Cabinet for at least a year. So there's nothing to that angle at all.
 
tessaesque said:
I'm just not sure why he resigns because of an affair. Hell, Clinton had an affair in the oval office and didn't resign...and he was the president. Why is the CIA director stepping down over it?
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Patreus is a person with a whole different personality from Bill Clinton.

Patreus has been in the military long enough to become a general, and then moved on to CIA Director.

If there's nothing deeper behind this, it could be that he wants to take time off from civil service to deal with his personal life to deal with his family the reasons why he had an extramarital affair.

And I wouldn't blame him at all for that, if that was the honest reason.
 
Diogenes said:
Fox just broke the news that David Petraeus has turned in his letter of resignation. There's gotta be a big story here somewhere... :shock:
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Timing is everything. A top level federal official resigning 3 days after an election? Certainly unconventional.

On the bright side. If it has any relationship to Bengahze. They sure as hell aren't going to throw Petraeus under the bus.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
There is something very fishy about this, first hitlary says she is leaving and now Petraes bugs out. Somehow all this links to the Benghazi affair.
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Hillary said she was leaving 3 years ago - 3 years before Benghazi. She only wanted one term. Nice wishful thinking though.
 
zimmer said:
1. He is the CIA Director. He could have been blackmailed.
2. He may have come clean to ensure he will never be blackmailed.
3. 2016. Here is to hoping. If he ever wants to run for public office this would need be public. It is.

I don't know how it fits into Benghazi except for someone potentially blackmailing him or bringing it up during his testimony.
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I don't know about him running for office; but your first two? I agree with. In fact, I think it's possible that he was blackmailed, and that's why he came forward. Which, if true, would be the exact right thing for him to do.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
Hillary said she was leaving 3 years ago - 3 years before Benghazi. She only wanted one term. Nice wishful thinking though.
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Hell, the best thing to do is to look at how many executive officials leave their posts in a common amount of time: 4 years if Department sec. 2-3 years if other post.

Wikipedia makes that little task easy enough, and only requires you to look at when they step in and when they leave.
 
They are reporting that the affair was with a woman who wrote a book on him and is being investigated as to whether she had access to his email and through that to classified information. If that turns out to be rue I will be very sad. He was a great military man and it would be really tragic for him to make such an error in judgement.
 
Fiddytree said:
Hell, the best thing to do is to look at how many executive officials leave their posts in a common amount of time: 4 years if Department sec. 2-3 years if other post.

Wikipedia makes that little task easy enough, and only requires you to look at when they step in and when they leave.
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Yeah, it's a common thing and unsurprising considering the stress I imagine those positions create.
 
nota bene said:
Whatever else can, will, or should be said, the timing here is most peculiar and convenient.
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Yes, the "optics" are quite poor indeed.
 
Harshaw said:
Yes, the "optics" are quite poor indeed.
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Wonder why the CBS guy tweeted this:

CBS’ Mark Knoller tweets that “Senate Intelligence Committee says Petraeus will not testify at next week’s closed hearing on the events in Benghazi.”

Perhaps there is some protocol I’m unaware of, but I don’t see why resigning should affect whether Petraeus testifies or not. He was in charge of the CIA when the Benghazi attack occurred, and the CIA has been under plenty of fire for how the attack was handled.

Petraeus Won’t Testify About Benghazi Attacks Now - By Katrina Trinko - The Corner - National Review Online
 
ThePlayDrive said:
Yeah, it's a common thing and unsurprising considering the stress I imagine those positions create.
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There is certainly nothing "common" about resigning a top post 3 days after an election....
 
Cole said:
There is certainly nothing "common" about resigning a top post 3 days after an election....
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No it's not. That's why there is a sexual affair involved with potential unauthorized access to classified information. :roll:

Put his statement back into context, please.
 
Cole said:
There is certainly nothing "common" about resigning a top post 3 days after an election....
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Agreed. It's peculiar. And creates doubt about whatever he might testify about. No sympathy at all for Petraeus; all he had to do was honor his vows and keep his britches zipped. But the timing? It's most peculiar.
 
Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

apdst said:
The standard for the DCI is higher than The President? I find that hard to believe.
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I can't say that shocks me.
 
Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

apdst said:
Half the people aren't president, either. Oh wait..."that's different".
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Are you guys ever going to get over Clinton, or is that something that gets you guys off every time something like this comes up?
 
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