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CIA Director Resigns

Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

One thing you're forgetting is the wife and how she want this to play down. Do you not think she'd have a say?



I think this has more implications than what we're seeing. Though the story just broke a deal behind scenes was most likely brokered days ago during the election. I'm sure heads of Agencies, State, and the Pres Chief of Staff were involved.
 
Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

I think this has more implications than what we're seeing. Though the story just broke a deal behind scenes was most likely brokered days ago during the election. I'm sure heads of Agencies, State, and the Pres Chief of Staff were involved.

Yes, I agree... see it now.
 
Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

Yet, Clinton served out his term did he not?

Clinton was not convicted at his impeachment trial as President of the United States. He was acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999.

He was acquitted, but still impeached. It's not like they just winked and let it pass.
 
Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

Yeah, I just heard that but Fox was making it sound like he was somehow responsible for Libya also. An affair OMG he's like half of all the married people out there.

I don't know which way to go on this one...

I can see why having an affair would cause problems being the CIA director...national security and all.

I also can't see a man of his age bothering with something like an affair... he is 60 years old.
 
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I also can't see a man of his age bothering with something like an affair... he is 60 years old.

Viagra does wonders.
 
Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

Well this is random ...
 
Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

Monica and Petreaus in the oval office during Benghazi?

The whole thing sounds like BS.

Is he still testifying on Benghazi in a week as planned?
 
CNN says he resigned because of an extramarital affair. That's just baffling to me, because 1) he isn't a politician or someone who generally faces public scrutiny for that sort of thing, and 2) he could've just resigned anyway after the election as many cabinet officials do, without giving any reason at all.

There's gotta be more to this story than meets the eye...
 
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I don't know which way to go on this one...

I can see why having an affair would cause problems being the CIA director...national security and all.

I also can't see a man of his age bothering with something like an affair... he is 60 years old.

It could've been as the Media is saying now that he suffered with retiring from the military life into a civilian position or middle age crazies. Most likely there's truth to him being unavailable during the whole Libya fiasco as a result of his affair. I know Hillary was particularly upset about the Ambassadors death, which made me wonder is this a sense of guilt or hiding something? She probably did not like the cover up of how badly it was handled and wanted the real culprit and his affair exposed but using the affair as a cover story, trying not to give Uncle Sam a black eye, which is SOP.
 
CNN says he resigned because of an extramarital affair. That's just baffling to me, because 1) he isn't a politician or someone who generally faces public scrutiny for that sort of thing, and 2) he could've just resigned anyway after the election as many cabinet officials do, without giving any reason at all.

There's gotta be more to this story than meets the eye...
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.
 
1. He is the CIA Director. He could have been blackmailed.[
Key word "could". And this "could" of situation is based off of not facts.

2. He may have come clean to ensure he will never be blackmailed.
No proof on this either.
 
Key word "could". And this "could" of situation is based off of not facts.


No proof on this either.
Oy vey.

1, 2, 3...
HE COULD HAVE BEEN BLACKMAILED.
He could have... been ... blackmailed.
He... could... have... been... blackmailed.
Capiche?

Just think a little... He could have been blackmailed... just as Clinton could have been blackmailed.
Clinton has no honor and my bet is he would have contemplated the cost for paying keeping someone quiet.
 
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Oy vey.

1, 2, 3...
HE COULD HAVE BEEN BLACKMAILED.
He could have... been ... blackmailed.
He... could... have... been... blackmailed.
Capiche?

Like i said a bunch of "could"'s based off of no facts.
 
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.

They were both having an affair with Chris Stevens and orchestrated the attack to take him out?
 
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Half the people out there aren't chief of the CIA.

Half the people aren't president, either. Oh wait..."that's different".
 
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?
 
Like i said a bunch of "could"'s based off of no facts.

Fact is genius... He Could Have Been Blackmailed.

Fact is... he had an affair.
Fact is... He is CIA Director.
Fact is... someone could have blackmailed him.

I'm curious. Is English your first or second language?
If it's not your first... then I can understand. If not... then I cannot understand how you could miss this.

Let me put it another way... He was open to blackmail.
Capiche?
 
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No, there's a different standard for the head of the CIA. I know you know that, but the opportunity to take a shot at Clinton and the Democrats was just to tempting to pass up, right?

The standard for the DCI is higher than The President? I find that hard to believe.
 
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.

If they start dying or leave the country then things could get fishy... they still have to testify.
I wonder how good a soldier Clinton will be?

Petraeus/Rubio 2016. :)
 
Fact is genius... He Could Have Been Blackmailed.
Bush could of knocked down the towers. Anything "could of" happened. But see your making your accusations based off of no facts.

Fact is... he had an affair.
Fact is... He is CIA Director.
Fact is... someone could have blackmailed him.
Coulda...


I'm curious. Is English your first or second language?
no

If it's not your first... then I can understand. If not... then I cannot understand how you could miss this.

Let me put it another way... He was open to blackmail.
Capiche?
Come back to me when you have some facts. Cuz im not buying into this "could of" whole situation.
 
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?

personal choice maybe? Plus its a lot harder for the president to step down.
 
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?

Happens a lot with congressmen. I'd say the distraction factor onto the CIA isn't good. Then there's his own previously high reputation to consider.
 
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.

Sawyer, on the former, it is incredibly common for Departmental secretaries to leave their post after one term. For lower-level officials it's a couple to a few years. Long before the Benghazi incident she had made clear her intentions of not moving forward with a second term. Back then people started flaring up the Hillary v. Obama feud of the primary season, while ignoring the all-too-common tradition of stepping aside after one term.

With politics, when in doubt, go to the least sexy (well, not in this case) reason why things happened. It's not as fun, but more often than not, it's the truth of the matter.
 
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Happens a lot with congressmen.

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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