Petreus is resigning from CIA

[Lucy Goosey]

57. An affair could have made him "blackmail-able"

I worked for a while for a (Canadian) federal agency that had strict security requirements. To get cleared, I had to take a polygraph and was grilled about things that could potentially be used against me - affairs, homosexual experiences, abortions, psychiatric care, whatever. To be clear, they didn't care if I had had any of those things per se - they cared if they thought I would betray my country to keep any of those things secret. I have, in fact, been a patient of a psychiatrist in the past, and I disclosed it and still got cleared.

And all of this was just for a Secret clearance for a mid-level finance policy job, nothing approaching the sensitivity of head of the CIA.

I mean, obviously I have no idea what the whole story is with Petraeus, but I thought of my polygraph experience as soon as I read that he was resigning over an affair. It's not entirely impossible that it is just about the affair.