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Breaking: CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair

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lawhawk11/09/2012 12:26:05 pm PST

Not good news. No matter how you cut it, this is bad for the CIA and bad for the national security community. When top ranking officials have affairs, it opens up the possibility that said person could be compromised in some fashion (blackmail/honeypot) etc.

It could lead to lives lost or valuable intel falling into the wrong hands or decisions made that wouldn’t ordinarily be made.

That it happened to one of the genuinely good military leaders who understood modern warfare makes the loss that much greater. It may well compromise the reforms that are sorely needed in the national security establishment.

But someone will take his place (and be vetted by the Senate during confirmation hearings).

From a personal perspective, it show he was like everyone else who ever had an affair. He had his failings and he and his family will have to deal with it. It will suck for them.