CIA Director Petraeus resigns, admits extra-
marital affair
CIA Director David Petraeus resigned his post
as head of the nation’s leading spy agency
on Friday, saying he had engaged in an
extramarital affair and acknowledging that
he “showed extremely poor judgment.”
In a letter to
the CIA
workforce,
Petraeus, 60,
said that he
met with
President
Barack
Obama at the
White House
on Thursday
and asked “to be allowed, for personal reasons, to
resign from my position.”
“After being married for 37 years, I showed
extremely poor judgment by engaging in an
extramarital affair,” he wrote. “Such behavior is
unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader
of an organization such as ours.”
Obama, who was reelected to a second term on
Tuesday, said in a statement that he accepted
Petraeus’ resignation, praising him for his work at
the CIA and for leading U.S. troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Petraeus’ departure, sudden and unexpected,
appeared to end the public career of a man who
played a key role in the Iraq war, led the U.S.
Central Command and commanded U.S. and NATO
troops in Afghanistan.
It also threatened to usher in a period of instability
at the CIA, which is grappling with a plateau in its
budget after a decade of steady increases and is
fending off questions about its performance before
and after the attack that led to the death of U.S.
Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya.
Intelligence sources said that Michael Morell, the
agency’s long-time deputy director, would serve as
acting CIA chief for the immediate future.
Morell, who is well respected at both the White
House and on Capitol Hill, had previously served as
acting director following the departure of former
CIA chief Leon Panetta.
Petraeus’ wife, Holly, has been an advocate for U.S.
veterans and head of the Office of Servicemember
Affairs at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau.
Posted by Channels Television on November 9,
2012.

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