If you’re like me and have a hard time understanding why Patraeus resigned from the CIA and what the big deal was with his extra-marital affair, Mother Jones offers a good explanation.
The problem seems to be what I already suspected on Friday – the boss of the CIA couldn’t keep his affair secret:
There is still the possibility that Broadwell got previously secret CIA info via her relationship with Petraeus. (See the Benghazi-related question above for more details on those allegations.) But even if that’s not the case, it’s an astonishing breach for the man hired as America’s top secret-keeper. As the editors of Wired’s Danger Room blog put it, “not only did Petraeus conduct an affair that could conceivably open up the CIA director to blackmail, he exhibited poor data security, setting up a pseudonymous email account to correspond with his paramour—one that the FBI easily traced back to him using the breadcrumb trails of Gmail metadata.
Thoughts?