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CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair

Posted by timothy on from the he's-no-clinton dept.

Penurious Penguin writes "After serving as Director of the CIA since September 2011, David Petraeus resigned from his position today, November 9. The retired four-star Army general has cited an extramarital affair as reason for the resignation. Michael Morell will now serve as Acting Director of the CIA."

2 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. Re:5 days prior to hearing. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If this had been under Bush the mainstream media would be on his ass 24x7.

    Oh, please. The mainstream media never got on Bush's ass 24x7 about *anything*. Ignore intelligence reports warning of an immanent attack? No problem. Let OBL get away? No problem. Lie us into a war? No problem. Authorize torture? No problem.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. Re:Job Performance by mattack2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From what I heard on the NBC News (podcast), he offered to resign to Obama, who took a day to accept the resignation. Doesn't sound like a firing to me.