Petraeus Affair and Escalating Crisis in Syria
Join the national conversation in this week's Hot Topics column.
This column is designed to offer a platform to discuss national stories on a local level. Share your opinion in the comment section! ---------- I'm sure you've heard by now that David Petraeus, Director of the CIA, resigned over an extramarital affair. Reports have surfaced that the affair was discovered by investigating his emails. Questions arise, but I'm sure we'll find out more about who, what, when and where. The Chicago Tribune reports that the woman was a journalist and his biographer. While the public has questioned why he would resign over an affair -- when even presidents have had affairs and remained in office -- the FBI expected him to resign "rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence …
Steve Burns
1:42 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
What timing that the Petraeus story breaks the same week as the presidential election, and with the Benghazi hearings coming soon. Like a good, uh, spy novel. more ›