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CIA Director Petraeus Resigns, Cites Extramarital Affair
Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus has resigned, citing "extremely poor judgment" for having an extramarital affair, NBC News reported.
"Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position," Petraeus said in a letter to CIA colleagues. "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours."
"This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation," Petraeus said in the letter.
Mike Morrell, the deputy CIA director and a long time CIA officer, will likely be offered the job as acting director, multiple sources told NBC News.
4 comments:
So it's ok for the president (Bill Clinton), but the head of the CIA has to lose his job over it?? Systematic replacement of officials that challenge the authority of the White House. We need some of these officials to start coming out publicly with what's going on in D.C. nowadays...because everyone is too unaware of the Lenin-like government we're beginning to have because they're doing it so subtly.
What we are witnessing is the first days of a Stalinist Purge of the US military.
History teaches us that under in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin the Red Army was purged of its best officers and men. In fact the purge nearly destroyed the Red Army and it was a real possibility that due to the purge (And killing of these men) that Germany could have destroyed the Soviet Union.
I am scared shitless now!
I am also Norwegian and Swedish, warrior Nordic woman. (I'm daddy's girl) Daddy was a combat veteran WWII - not even a scratch! I am sick of this communist liar. His mother was a youth communist organizer in her high school. When the board of the school was called before the House UnAmerican Activities hearings, for teaching communism, Obama's grandparents ran to Hawaii for protection from party leaders. This is a sham! I can almost hear my father rising up out of his grave, and my grandfather Thor right behind him. lhodges75@hotmail.com
@ Anonymous,
Your father and mine. WW2 vet. DDay to end of hostilities.
I wonder if a whirling sound is coming from the Tomb of the Unknowns?
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