Update, 19 November 2012: Well, this is good news: "Pew: More Americans Following 'Fiscal Cliff' than David Petraeus Investigation"
Yes, it was asking too much that we "be spared the salacious details of General David Petraeus's extramarital affair", as the narrative continues to dominate the headlines and the plot line thickens. So, here I am providing, for anyone interested in all the developing details, a list of news articles that have followed all the minutiae of the tangled tale. Maybe there is something huge here, hidden in the volumes of e-mails that have come to light, but so far the situation seems to be a sad tale of infatuation, obsession, adultery, and jealousy, with a little bit of a petty political paranoia and too-ready access to the privacy-prying power of the FBI.
Nothing reported so far seems to be a national security issue....but, then, who knows. Before it's over, maybe the FBI will be poking through all our e-mails and discovering all our petty little secrets.
ALL THE DETAILS, updated as discovered, or until I tire of the updates, which was yesterday, 18 November 2012:
"CIA Director David Petraeus resigns, cites extra-marital affair,"
Andrea Mitchell and Robert Windrem, on nbcnews.com, 9 November 2012.
"Petraeus Resigns over Affair with Biographer,"
Fred Kaplan, in Slate, 9 November 2012.
"Woman Linked to Petraeus is a West Point Graduate and Lifelong High Achiever," Michael D. Shear, The New York Times, 9 November 2012.
"A Brilliant Career with a Meteoric Rise and an Abrupt Fall," Scott Shane and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times, 10 November 2012.
"CIA Chief Resigns over Affair,"
Devlin Barrett, Siobhan Gorman, and Julian E. Barnes, in The Wall Street Journal, 11 November 2012.
"Veteran: Paula Broadwell 'Not the Type' to Have Affair," Reena Ninan and Alyssa Newcomb, ABC news, 11 November 2012.
"Motives
Questioned in FBI Inquiry of Petraeus E-mails," Scott Shane
and Charlie Savage, The New York Times, 12 November
2012.
"Here's
the e-mail trick Petraeus and Broadwell used to communicate,"
Max Fisher, The Washington Post, 12 November 2012.
"Petraeus
'ghostwriter' clueless to affair," Vernon Loeb, The
Washington Post," 12 November 2012.
"Exclusive: Paula Broadwell's Emails Revealed," Michael Daly, The Daily Beast, 12 November 2012.
"FBI Agent In Petraeus Case Under Scrutiny," Devlin Barrett, Evan Perez, and Siobhan Gorman, in The Wall Street Journal, 13 November 2012.
"Patraeus investigation ensnares commander of U.S., NATO troops in Afghanistan," Craig Whitlock and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Post, updated 13 November 2012.
"Scandal
Widens; US General's E-mails 'Flirtatious,'" Peter Yost and
Robert Burns, Associated Press, 13 November 2012.
"Who is Jill Kelley and Why is Everyone Obsessed with Her?," Henry Blodget and Grace Wyler, Business Insider, 13 November 2012.
"There's Something About Jill Kelley," Elspeth Reeve, The Atlantic Wire, 13 November 2012.
"Petraeus friend Jill Kelley found place hosting military parties," Tampa Bay Times staff and wires, Tampa Bay Times, 13 November 2012.
"Jill Kelley requested 'diplomatic protection' in 911 call," myfoxmobile, 13 November 2012. (h/t, Josh Marshall, "Just Gets Better and Better," TPM, 13 November 2012.)
"Jill Kelley is an 'honorary consul' of South Korea,"Josh Rogin, on the Foreign Policy blog, "The Cable," 13 November 2012.
"General Confusion," David Weigel, Slate, 13 November 2012.
"FBI investigating how Petraeus biographer Broadwell obtained classified files," Sari Horwitz, Greg Miller, and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post,"
13 November 2012.
"Tampa is Seen as Social Link for Unfolding Scandal," Michael S. Schmidt and Sheryl Gay Stolbert, The New York Times, 13 November 2012.
"Jill Kelley Loses VIP Privileges at Military Base," Luis Martinez, The Blotter at ABC News online, 14 November 2012.
"Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-mail Inquiry," Michael S. Schmidt, Scott Shane, and Alain Delaquérière, The New York Times, 14 November 2012.
"Meet the Shirtless FBI Agent from the Petraeus Love Pentagon," Adam Clarke Estes, The Atlantic Wire, 14 November 2012.
"What Was in Paula Broadwell's 'KelleyPatrol' E-mails?," Elspeth Reeve, The Atlantic Wire, 15 November 2012.
"Jill Kelley outraged other military liaisons with her flirty ways," Jessica Vander Velde and William R. Levesque, Tampa Bay Times, 15 November 2012.
" In Petraeus' fall, a familiar tale of power and its dangerous allure," Michael Doyle, Frances Robles, and Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, 16 November 2012.
"The Wonderful World of Jill and Scott Kelley," Elspeth Reeve, The Atlantic Wire, 16 November 2012.
"Petraeus scandal: Jill Kelley and the Tampa society set," Emma Brockes, The Guardian, 16 November 2012. [These last few articles are just precious in their descriptions of social snobbery.]
OPINIONS
"A General Lesson," Fred Kaplan, in Slate, 10 November 2012.
"When a C.I.A. Agent had Scores of Affairs,"
Stephen Kinzer, The New York Times, 10 November 2012.
"How I was Drawn into the Cult of David Petraeus," Spencer Ackerman, on the blog Danger Room: What's Next in National Security, on the website of Wired, 11 November 2012.
"The David Petraeus-Paula Broadwell Affair: The Danger of Male Mentors?," Jenna Goudreau, Forbes 12 November 2012.
"The Siren and the Spook," Frank Bruni, The New York Times, 12 November 2012.
Petraeus the paper tiger," Joshua Foust, Need to Know Opinion, PBS online, 12 November 2012.
"How Paula Broadwell Wronged Her Readers," Laura Miller, Salon, 13 November 2012.
"The Real Petraeus Scandal," Joan Walsh, Salon, 13 November 2012.
"Petraeus situation: You asked, I answer," Thomas E. Ricks, on his blog The Best Defense, on the Foreign Policy website, 13 November 2012.
"Stop Judging, You Prudes," Katie Roiphe, Slate, 13 November 2012.
"What the Heck, FBI?," Marc Ambinder, on his blog The Compass, in The Week, 13 November 2012.
"Paula Broadwell, A Hanger-On in King Petraeus's Court," Noam Scheiber, in The New Republic's blog The Plank, 14 November 2012.
"When did Socialite Become an Insult?," Libby Copeland, Slate, 16 November 2012.
"The media's woman blaming," Jennifer Vanasco, Columbia Journalism Review, 16 November 2012.
FALLOUT
"FBI investigation into Petraeus's love life may damage ties to other agencies," Tom McCarthy, The Guardian, 13 November 2012.
"Panetta Orders Review of Ethics Training for Military Officers," Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times, 15 November 2012.
ADVICE
"My Secret Strategy for Avoiding Petraeus-Style Email Pitfalls," James Fallows, on his blog on The Atlantic's website, 12 November 2012.
"A Cheater's Checklist," Emily Yoffe ("Dear Prudie"), Slate, 13 November 2012.
BIGGER ISSUES?
"Questioning
the Brass," Thomas E. Ricks, The New York
Times, 11 November 2012.
"The Real David Petraeus Scandal," Robert Wright, The Atlantic, 12 November 2012.
"Petraeus Case Raises Fears About Privacy in Digital Era,"
Scott Shane, The New York Times, 13 November 2012.
"FBI's abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation," Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian 13 November 2012.
"The Petraeus Legacy: A Paramilitary CIA?," Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, 14 November 2012.
"Forget Petraeus: The Real Scandal Is Generals' Corrupt Weapons Procurement," Dina Rasor, Truthout, 14 November 2012.
"Collateral damage of our surveillance state," Julian Sanchez, Reuters, 15 November 2012.
"Paula Broadwell's Big Mistake," Andrew Leonard, Salon, 16 November 2012.
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