Photo SpecialDavid Petraeus Scandal Explained in 5 Clicks
Infidelity! Threatening emails! A shirtless FBI agent! PEOPLE breaks down the bizarre news reports of events that toppled the head of the CIA
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1. THE AFFAIR
Last week, retired General David Petraeus resigned as head of the CIA, citing infidelity. What's the story behind the married military man's betrayal? In about November 2011, Petraeus – the former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan – began an affair with a married writer, Paula Broadwell. (That was a couple of months after he retired from the military and became head of the CIA.) The pair first met back in 2006 and would spend a lot of time together traveling the world while Broadwell worked on Petraeus's biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
