Latest makes it pretty clear that he was asked to step down, and also that if it had stayed under the radar, he could have kept his job while still fucking another woman. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/petraeus-told-biographer-to-stop-harassing-family-friend-officials-say/2012/11/12/6ccb325c-2d00-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_story.html)