Intelligence director urged Petraeus to resign

This September 13, 2011 file photo shows Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus (right), and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper at a House Select Intelligence Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee joint hearing in Washington, D.C. / Mark Wilson/Getty Images

The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, acting as a "friend, colleague, and fellow general officer," on election night urged David Petraeus to resign after being notified by the FBI of the former CIA director's extramarital affair, U.S. officials confirm.

Petraeus' name initially surfaced when a yet-unidentified Tampa woman contacted the FBI after receiving a number of anonymous harassing emails, which apparently referenced the CIA director. Federal agents quickly traced the emails back to Petraeus' biographer, Paula Broadwell, and further investigation revealed evidence - including numerous cryptic emails between the retired four-star general and Broadwell - of an extramarital affair involving the two.

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Law enforcement sources say the FBI did not alert congressional intelligence committees of the investigation since it was determined the affair was a private drama and not a matter of national security. Initial concerns that Petraeus or his emails might have been compromised "never materialized."

Broadwell and Petraeus, each married and with two children, spent time together in Afghanistan, when Petraeus commanded forces there and Broadwell was conducting research for her book, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus." The emails that prompted the initial investigation indicated Broadwell may have viewed the Tampa woman as a rival for Petraeus' attention.

In his resignation letter to the CIA workforce Friday, Petraeus confessed a moral falling, saying he used "extremely poor judgment" which was "unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours."

[bois-darc]

OOPS! Eric Cantor is now a co-conspirator. He knew about this in October ...... Whatever is Congress going to do now ???

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/11/us/petraeus-cia-resignation/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[baileycccc]

All of congress should resign over extramarital affairs. I had to see us lose a great leader over this.

[MIO42]

The book entitled "ALL IN"
Are we allowed to comment about the title?
Will there be a sequel ?
Possible title.... " ALL OUT"
A movie........................." Some Left Out"
An App ................"Nothing Up there"
A Reality show..........." Everybody gets In"

just wondering?

[hurtin4sertain]

Weird Al got it right "It's a party in the CIA".

[shurch4truth]

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What's really scary here, folks, is here we have two really intelligent Americas who are near or at the top of the charts with our security and they use email like to kids in junior high school to exchange love notes?!?!?!

Comparatively, I'm way down lower than these two and it as been pounded into my head to know that every email done on a government computer is an official and legal record. Didn't these two get the memo? Heck, I thought they probably wrote it!

[Daid132]

Yes.....but he resigned "after" he was caught. I wonder how long this would have continued, and at what expense to his country and himself.

[GossamerWings]

Wow! I guessed it. Paula went after another woman in a cat fight to keep Petraeus all to herself. This reminds me of the astronaut wearing a diaper that wanted to kidnap a woman over a man. This Paula is like a BAD fatal attraction at least for his career.