Strange Days

As you may have already heard, David Petraeus, Director of the CIA, stepped down yesterday after he disclosed that he had an extra-marrital affair.  The general reaction to this has been somewhere along the lines that Petraeus had brilliant careers in both the field and here at home and that this unfortunate incident is, to use a favorite phrase of President Obama's, just a bump in the road.

Last night, Fox News reported that the affair, which has now ended, was with his biographer and began when she was embedded in Afghanistan.  Therefore, it seems that the affair began before the vetting process that would end with his being elevated to the position of Director of the CIA.

Also, the connection with Benghazi couldn't be more obvious.  Petraeus was just getting ready next week to testify in front a congressional hearing about what occurred during the terrorist attack.   His testimony, for some reason, is now cancelled.  This makes no sense, since the affair has already ended and should no way impair his judgement in giving testimony on what happened in Benghazi.  Hopefully the committee will still issue him a subpoena so this shouldn't be an issue.

Lastly, the Clinton standard -- you know, where things that happen in private supposedly do not affect the professional -- seems to have been cast aside for an new older standard of conduct.  The rejection of this standard will obviously go unnoticed by the MSM.

This whole thing is very fishy.