As more details come out about the alleged affair between former CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell, it's beginning to look like the story is about more than two married people cheating on their spouses.
The conspiracy theory that thought the husband of CIA Director David Petraeus' mistress wrote to Chuck Klosterman, the New York Times Magazine's Ethicist, asking whether or not he should expose the affair has been debunked.
CIA Director David Petraeus has resigned over an extra-marital affair, and President Obama accepted the resignation Friday afternoon.
He's clearly sticking to his favored explanation device
Panetta and Petraeus were easily confirmed. But there's a budget debate a-brewing
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