Kinda skipping the Petraeus stuff to ask if folks have seen every episode of Buffy in limerick form?

I hope the next CIA Director provides all reports to Congress in limerick form. Or haiku.

Hubby has picked up the line I came up with, that Democrats have sex scandals and Republicans have money scandals, so you should become a Democrat and get laid.

P4 does stand for Petraeus and I picked it up because I don't feel like double-checking the spelling every time. He is a 4-star general. P4.

From what I gather he isn't resigning because of adultery, but for exposure of information (email) to a crazy person. (short version)

Apparently Broadwell broke up with him after he became head of CIA and he wrote her thousands of emails and texts to get her back.

Does "P4" stand for Petraeus?

It does. Because he's a four star general, I guess?

I do find it interesting that adultery is seen as worse than killing large numbers of innocent people.

Right wingers complaining about P4 resigning do not care about this. Of course you are right, it is kind of ridiculous, but I file it away in the same irony category of mobsters getting caught through the IRS. After Clinton's impeachment, it is all kind of bullshit.

Hec,

then why did Broadwell write P4's other mistress a VERY threatening email?

For irony, I like this article from Nov 5: "General Petraeus' Rules for Living" : [link]

then why did Broadwell write P4's other mistress a VERY threatening email?

I don't know, but I'd guess that she probably still had feelings for him and was warning off the other woman. She might have only broken up with him because she understood that having an affair as CIA director was considered way more compromising than having an affair as a general.

As Stephanie notes, affairs are not uncommon in the military and tolerated. In spy biz, they create exposure.

Nov 5th! Wow, Raq. That is interesting timing although I have no idea when it may have been submitted compared to when it was published. She certainly was writing about him up to the last moment. Can't say the rules are half bad though.

She is writing another book about him! And apparently she still needs to finish her dissertation - which is about him.

Yes, I know about affairs in the military - despite their code of conduct that they aren't supposed to have affairs, blah blah. I am just struck that someone who had a distinguished career in military intelligence could have behaved so rashly as sending a threatening email message. It just seems extraordinary.

Broadwell also very much enjoyed the access she had to him. She kept in close contact with him when he became head of the CIA - in ways that his CIA staff found puzzling. Oh well. One for the books.

I feel badly for P4's wife and sons, and for Broadwell's husband and kids.