New York Post wins the David Petraeus headline contest
The Washington Post has an earnest article about why former CIA director David Petraeus's private Gmail account has national-security implications.
The New York Times, in a true newspaper-of-record style, published Petraeus's resignation letter, which was released to CIA staff.
"After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair," he admitted. "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."
But the New York Post probably captured things in the most colourful way possible with its front page, featuring a photo of the four-star general with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
It was very considerate of Petraeus to wait until after the presidential election before fessing up to something that others in Obama's cabinet have undoubtedly done as well.
French president Francois Mitterrand fathered a child out of wedlock and kept his job—it seems that only in America does a guy fall on his sword for fooling around after nearly four decades of marriage.
Comments
7 Comments
Justin Macartney
Nov 10, 2012 at 9:42am
As long as she wasnt a Russian Spy who cares.
Ron S.
Nov 10, 2012 at 5:06pm
Can't blame him, she's hot!
ishka bibble
Nov 10, 2012 at 5:46pm
and the name of her book, "All In."
Aha...
Nov 11, 2012 at 8:04am
Where's his other hand?
dave19
Nov 12, 2012 at 10:24am
I guess this means we won't get the truth about what really happened at the embassy in Libya. Another staged sex scandal to divert our attention from reality.
Morty
Nov 12, 2012 at 10:35pm
I don't know – he apparently thought setting up a Gmail account would be enough to avoid detection. That alone should be enough to disqualify him from heading the CIA.
(And dave19: What really happened? The embassy was attacked by guerrillas. As Rachel Maddow put it, Benghazi was an attack on the U.S., not a scandal by the U.S.)
Michele Baillie
Nov 13, 2012 at 6:50am
These types of happenings are usually ignored by people in power; indulgences of appetites (all kinds- social no- no's right on down to criminal) are fairly common among people at the top. When it is convenient to do so, they are used to force someone out.
The motivation compelling the General to resign and just what and who were behind it have yet to come out into the light.
I wonder what is being sneaked past us while the media is "looking" at this. This is also a common tactic used by people at the top. Sun Tzu and Machiavelli both stressed the importance of using "spies" for good reason.