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You can't be that dense. You don't resign because of an affair. That's personal stuff. Petraeus failed to reveal the truth about what happened in Libya because of pressure from the White House...and now he is running away from Obozo, because he WILL tell the truth under oath when he testifies.
Now there are dozens of people in the Obozo administration that are running even more scared now that Petraeus resigned because they know Petraeus will tell the truth about what happened in Libya.
Gotta love Krauthammer, not even a reference to an unnamed administration source. Too funny. My favorite line "you don't have to be a cynic." Yeah Charles but it helps to be a journalist.
Rumor is that the Obozo administration blackmailed Petraeus with his affair information unless he covered up the incompetence with the Libya fiasco. Petraeus didn't play ball 100% as the White House wanted him to...and now Petraeus is running scared because he knows he will be testifying under oath in front of the investigation committee...and he knows full-well the Obozo thugs will leak the information about his affair. So...Petraeus decided to get out in front of the affair issue now, and he will tell the truth about the Libyan mess when the time comes.
I think if your spouse can't trust you, no one else can trust you either.
But I don't understand how men can be so DUMB and put their reputation, career, marriage, family - EVERYTHING - at risk for sex. Women are smarter than that, or maybe sex just isn't as important to them.
Wrong. 21% of men and 19% women cheat in marriages. The actual difference may be closer than that given the percentage of error in such studies. Bottom line, human beings, have the innate capacity to cheat and will, given the motivation and/or the opportunity. The perception is that a woman has a lot to lose from being unfaithful. As women realize this is in fact not at all true and that the legal system will hand them considerable chunks of their spouses assets upon the break-up of a marriage, more and more are worrying less about the fall-out from infidelity and working with the same set of motivations men have.
The issue is that the keeper of America's secrets put himself in a situation where he could be blackmailed. you simply cannot have that... not ever.
Clinton's issue was not who he had sex with. Clintons issue was that he committed a felony by lying under oath.
???? Was Clinton's rank not higher that either Petraeus' or Allen's?? As a 'keeper of secrets', was his level of clearance not the highest possible? Sexual contact with anyone with a lower security clearance being an issue, Clinton would be in trouble on both the breach or security issues as well as the lying under oath... and of the two... I should think the security breach issue would be the more important.
Who would ever trust a person in charge of an agency designed to STEAL other people's secrets. The chief spook is head thief. It goes with the job description.
Besides as far as anyone knows he was still our thief until he resigned. That is all that matters.
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