I mean, after all is said and done, it might be that everything was above the table except the sleeping around. But I can definitely understand why both Petraeus and Obama would not want this over their head while trying to run the affairs of the country.
You've already been letting this woman shadow you for a favorable biography, giving her access that walks right up to that line of keeping your countries secrets. Sleeping with her just brings up all sorts of questions that you'd rather be on a classified dossier between agencies rather than the front page of the New York Times. If he was to continue his gig, you would need the details to be so public nobody would question the situation. Now it's clear all we're going to get is that "national security was not threatened", which would also be true if she had gotten a whole bunch of WikiLeaks type data for a tell-all story waaay down the line.
(I just realized how outdated the idea of front page is. Small sad.)
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Date: 12/11/12 18:13 (UTC)You've already been letting this woman shadow you for a favorable biography, giving her access that walks right up to that line of keeping your countries secrets. Sleeping with her just brings up all sorts of questions that you'd rather be on a classified dossier between agencies rather than the front page of the New York Times. If he was to continue his gig, you would need the details to be so public nobody would question the situation. Now it's clear all we're going to get is that "national security was not threatened", which would also be true if she had gotten a whole bunch of WikiLeaks type data for a tell-all story waaay down the line.
(I just realized how outdated the idea of front page is. Small sad.)