CIA Director Gen. Petraeus Resigns over reported affair...

[Worriedman]

[url="http://news.msn.com/politics/cia-dir-gen-petraeus-resigns"]http://news.msn.com/politics/cia-dir-gen-petraeus-resigns[/url]

[TMF]

Holy @&$)ing $@"#%!

[maroonandwhite]

Wow. That seems a little off.....

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Yeh, he went against the grain over Benghazi is more of what I think.

[maroonandwhite]

I just find it really hard to believe that he would give up that position over an affair. Don't get me wrong; affairs are bad and I don't condone them. But that kind of nobility, if you will, is hard to come by these days and I am skeptical when I see it. Especially in the government.

[Daniel]

That man has it.

[maroonandwhite]

Well if so then I am glad to see it. I don't know a lot about him to be honest. It's still very fishy on the timing though. I mean it's one thing to be truthful about it and let the public and wife know about it but stepping down completely is odd. Maybe my spider sense is off though.

[QuietDan]

I don't believe a word about General Petraeus' resignation.

I'm thinking he's being pressured & blackmailed by the White House over Benghazi.

I'm thinking we are now living in very dangerous times.

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd think that he was kept silent with an old extramarital affair held over his head.

For him to out Himself on an extramarital affair would free him of the blackmail for silence.

I'm going to wait and see him and his wife embrace. I'm thinking they're gonna kiss like a pair of lovestruck teenagers. Edited November 9, 2012 by QuietDan

[Daniel]

He was my Commanding General in the 101st. Now you can imagine that I as a PVT through SPC didn't have a lot of contact with him but I did meet him on several occasions. The worst thing I have ever heard someone say about him, that knew him at all, was that he was not someone that likes to be told something can't be done.

[Oh Shoot]

I'd wager the affair was something BHO kept in his pocket until push came to shove. Which it has, with Petraeus bucking the admin claims, and with the hearings impending.

As virtuous as he may indeed be otherwise, people don't abruptly quit such a high position when there has been no scandal. Hell, if being so noble were the only cause, he wouldn't have accepted the position to begin with, as I don't think this is probably a quick tryst that happened only recently.

But now that Petraeus is out from under job pressure, the hearings next week may be quite a bit more interesting than they might have been otherwise. We'll see.

- OS Edited November 9, 2012 by OhShoot

[rcman2010]

I think you are right quietdan.

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[Wheelgunner]

Senator Feinstein says Gen. Petraeus will not testify in Senate hearings on Benghazi next week due to his "resignation." Isn't that convenient?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/09/15054517-cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns-cites-extramarital-affair?lite Edited November 9, 2012 by Wheelgunner

[K191145]

[quote name='QuietDan' timestamp='1352496055' post='842661']
I don't believe a word about General Petraeus' resignation.

I'm thinking he's being pressured & blackmailed by the White House over Benghazi.

I'm thinking we are now living in very dangerous times.

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd think that he was kept silent with an old extramarital affair held over his head.

For him to out Himself on an extramarital affair would free him of the blackmail for silence.

I'm going to wait and see him and his wife embrace. I'm thinking they're gonna kiss like a pair of lovestruck teenagers.
[/quote]

I also believe he was pushed out by our re-elected totalitarian socialist dictator, now Obama is in position to choose a real loyal boot licking robot for CIA director. This administration makes the Nixon administration look like saints and angles.

[Oh Shoot]

News Flash: he will NOT be testifying in the closed Senate hearings next week, CIA will send current employees.

So BHO has dodged the first bullet on this. I swear, evil just wins all the time.

Of course, they could subpoena him. Hmmm, plot thickens.

- OS

[maroonandwhite]

[quote name='Wheelgunner' timestamp='1352498266' post='842697']
Senator Feinstein says Gen. Petraeus will not testify in Senate hearings on Benghazi next week due to his "resignation." Isn't that convenient?

[url="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/09/15054517-cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns-cites-extramarital-affair?lite"]http://usnews.nbcnew...tal-affair?lite[/url]
[/quote]

That's what I was wondering. If he would actually testify. I am no conspiracy buff but this is all too convenient.

[maroonandwhite]

I'm sure if they try to subpoena him it will be shot down somehow.

[MacGyver]

[quote name='maroonandwhite' timestamp='1352498618' post='842708']
I'm sure if they try to subpoena him it will be shot down somehow.
[/quote]i just hope he doesn't go the way of Ron Brown.

As an intelligence operative, having an affair is a very touchy thing, as the threat of blackmail is very real.

Funny thing is, that regardless of how long the administration knew or if this was a political card that was played, now that it's out, it's done. You can't hold it over his head anymore.

I hope he gets his chance to tell his side of the story.

[TMF]

[quote name='OhShoot' timestamp='1352497228' post='842681']

But now that Petraeus is out from under job pressure, the hearings next week may be quite a bit more interesting than they might have been otherwise. We'll see.

- OS[/quote]

Unfortunately, I don't see Petraeus using his new found freedom of speech to throw Obama under the bus in the media or otherwise.

Then again, I don't see him screwing up his marriage by screwing his biographer either, so anything is possible.

Agree strongly with the above statement regarding folks in the upper echelons of the intelligence community being susceptible to blackmail. Ain't likely that blackmail is a likely scenario, but that is how it works. If there are skeletons in your closet, you can be exploited. Perhaps his resignation was professional courtesy, but the timing is suuuuure suspect.

[enfield]

General Petraeus is a GREAT AMERICAN! I'll bet he told King Obama 'no' and the King fired him, in the King's own, South-Side-Of-Chicago way.

[mcurrier]

A manufactured "afair" to get him off the hook for testifying and out of 0bama's hair. No liberal lackey has the honor to resign over something so trivial as that in the eyes of Dems, and no Dem has the honor to callfor someone's resignation over something that Dems consider to be so trivial. Unless it's a Republican. Purely a strategy move. C.Y.A. all the way.

[DaveTN]

I don’t know why anyone that served with such an honorable military career as he had would want a job running the CIA.

There is nothing to indicate what he is saying is not the truth.

The elections over; Obama doesn’t have to answer to anyone anymore. If he wanted to fire him; he would just do it.

Looks to me like the guy had an affair and stepped down because of it.

[Guest tommy62]

I think the director of the CIA could have come up with something better than,"I had an affair". That's horse dookey. Has more to do with Libya than labia. Edited November 10, 2012 by tommy62

[Oh Shoot]

[quote name='tommy62' timestamp='1352512969' post='842845']
I think the director of the CIA could have come up with something better than,"I had an affair". That's horse dookey. Has more to do with Lybia than labia.
[/quote]

Ba Da BING! Love it.

(except you misspelled Libya)

Edited November 10, 2012 by OhShoot

[MattCary]

[quote name='Wheelgunner' timestamp='1352498266' post='842697']
Senator Feinstein says Gen. Petraeus will not testify in Senate hearings on Benghazi next week due to his "resignation." Isn't that convenient?

[url="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/09/15054517-cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns-cites-extramarital-affair?lite"]http://usnews.nbcnew...tal-affair?lite[/url]
[/quote]

This.

[TMF]

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1352510817' post='842825']I don’t know why anyone that served with such an honorable military career as he had would want a job running the CIA.

There is nothing to indicate what he is saying is not the truth.

The elections over; Obama doesn’t have to answer to anyone anymore. If he wanted to fire him; he would just do it.

Looks to me like the guy had an affair and stepped down because of it.[/quote]

My guess is the same. A shame, really. The timing is what makes it so suspect.