Why An Extra-Marital Affair Means Automatic Resignation For The Head Of The CIA -- Robert Johnson and Geoffrey Ingersoll, Business Insider
The central risk of a CIA agent disclosing sensitive information to someone with whom he was maintaining an illicit extra-marital affair is minor compared with the possibility the affair could be used against him as blackmail.
The moment General Petraeus put himself into a position where his private behavior became something he needed to hide from the public — as stated in his resignation letter — he essentially put national security at risk. It's exactly the type of compromise which would put any government worker at immediate risk of losing a Top Secret clearance.
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Update: Did Petraeus have to resign? -- Olga Khazan, Washington Post
My Comment: The FBI must have told him .... probably the FBI Director himself. I cannot even imagine what must have gone through the FBI Director's mind when his agents came to him with this info ... and then CIA Director Petraeus when he realized that his private affair was now about to become a very public one.
Update: Apparently President Obama only had one night to digest the news that his CIA Director was about to resign.
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