Washington: Resignation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Director David Petreaus has become the talk of the town in
United States as new revelations have shocked people in the
country.
According to US media reports, Director of the Central Intelligence had an affair with one of his biographers, author Paula Broadwell. Ms. Broadwell co-authored a glowing portrait of Mr. Petraeus titled, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
According to the biography of Ms. Broadwell on the website of her book, she is a “a research associate at Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership and a PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London” who spent most of a year in Afghanistan with Mr. Petraeus working on the book.
Her site described the book as having built on her two-year doctoral dissertation, which was “a study in transformational leadership and organizational innovation influenced by U.S. Army General David Petraeus.”
Ms. Broadwell’s book site also identifies her as being married to Scott Broadwell, an interventional radiologist with whom she has two children.
“They love to run, ski, and surf together,” the site says of the couple.
Broadwell is also under investigation by the FBI for trying to access Petraeus’ email and possibly gaining access to classified information.
It was also revealed by US media that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was informed regarding the extramarital affair of CIA chief and it conveyed the information to US President Barack Obama.
The president prevented FBI from revealing the information and asked them to hold it until the US presidential election passes away.
Although, there were no reports that resignation of CIA chief was due to difference with President Obama over pulling-out of forces from Afghanistan in 2014 but certain elements were linking the resignation with the differences.
It is to be mentioned here that CIA director David Petraeus resigned from the spy agency, citing an extramarital affai
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