{"id":11329,"date":"2012-11-09T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2012-11-09T12:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:34:35","slug":"cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"david patraeus\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/06\/DCIA_David_Petraeus.jpg\/220px-DCIA_David_Petraeus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"165\" \/>FoxNews reports Petraeus has submitted his resignation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>How CONVENIENT for him and the emperor with the coming Libya hearings!!<\/p>\n<p>People there are no coincidences, only illusions of coincidence!<\/p>\n<p>Story developing, claims of extra-marital affair<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is Petraeus&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/11\/09\/15054517-cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns-cites-extramarital-affair?lite\">letter in full<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HEADQUARTERS Central Intelligence Agency<br \/>\n9 November 2012<br \/>\nYesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D\/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. 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.<\/p>\n<p>As I depart Langley, I want you to know that it has been the greatest of privileges to have served with you, the officers of our Nation&#8217;s Silent Service, a work force that is truly exceptional in every regard. Indeed, you did extraordinary work on a host of critical missions during my time as director, and I am deeply grateful to you for that.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Roosevelt once observed that life&#8217;s greatest gift is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing. I will always treasure my opportunity to have done that with you and I will always regret the circumstances that brought that work with you to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your extraordinary service to our country, and best wishes for continued success in the important endeavors that lie ahead for our country and our Agency.<\/p>\n<p>With admiration and appreciation,<\/p>\n<p>David H. Petraeus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CIA Director Petraeus Resigns, Cites Extra-Marital Affair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/national-international\/NATL-CIA-Director-Petraeus-Resigns-Cites-Extra-Marital-Affair-178159541.html\">NBC New York<\/a><br \/>\nCentral Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus has resigned, citing an extra-marital affair, NBC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position,&#8221; Petraeus said in his resignation letter. &#8220;After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation,&#8221; Petraeus said in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews reports Petraeus has submitted his resignation&#8230;. How CONVENIENT for him and the emperor with the coming Libya hearings!! People there are no coincidences, only illusions of coincidence! Story developing, claims of extra-marital affair &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[21493],"tags":[582,21494,21495,7419,21498,21497,21496],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}