"The Onion broke this story two months ago, but the mainstream media covered it up to protect Obama prior to the election."

That...is fantastic.

I also found this moderately-spoilery comment from Monday's Homeland recap on Vulture to be ironically relevant:

Thanks to Homeland, how many cheating Washington mates are going to use, “I’m working for the CIA” as an all-purpose alibi? It sounds so much better than “I’m working late at the office.” And you can’t press too hard because of “national security.”

Did y'all see Ann Hathaway on SNL doing her impression of Claire Danes character from Homeland? I can't vouch for its accuracy but it was funny.

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I know we don't have facts, but I thought it was Broadwell who sent threatening emails to the other woman from Petreaus' account? Or something like that?

I don't really get why he resigned either. I read somewhere that he was doing well at the CIA and better than one might expect of a general. I mean, was sending emails dumb, sure, but why did he have to resign?

Did she do a lot of overly wide craxyeyes?

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Javachick has used it and liked it.

I want to know who the other other woman was in the P4 scandal. She had to be somebody pretty high up that she warranted and FBI investigation over harassing email.

I don't really get why he resigned either. I read somewhere that he was doing well at the CIA and better than one might expect of a general. I mean, was sending emails dumb, sure, but why did he have to resign?

That seems to be a big part of the discussion too. A lot of people are saying there is nothing there (that we know of) that necessitated resigning. He certainly seemed respected and valued by all. My completely naive and uninformed opinion that it is just a part of his personal character that he had to resign because he screwed up and that was the price to be paid.

It is a fascinating thing to watch, but I do feel very bad for the innocent parties.

I want to know who the other other woman was in the P4 scandal. She had to be somebody pretty high up that she warranted and FBI investigation over harassing email.

She was a State Department liaison to the military.

BTW, I am not sure the FBI investigation is because the woman is "high up", I think it was because P4 was implicated in the email. FBI is the body who investigates CIA problems. I think there was thought P4's account was hacked or someone was going to threaten him.

Patraeus had to resign because he exposed himself to blackmail by (a) having an affair; and (b) using gmail to contact her with details of the affair.

Considering that China devotes thousands of man-hours daily to hacking, he dangerously exposed himself and compromised CIA security.