How perfectly he´s following along with the crisis management team suggestions.

Recall him to Active Duty and give him a Courts Martial. Hopefully he will be reduced in rank and sent off to Leavenworth to do some HARD time.

And how is it that General Shelton thinks it is okay to share a private and anguished letter from General Petraeus?

Jerk. Reminds me of the chalet living,girlfriend screwing Eisenhower in WWII. Guys are dying and they are writing thousands of emails to their camp whores.

Yup - as previous poster stated, Petraeus is working from a script, and Shelton is playing his role to help out his buddy.

We are being played by the crisis management professionals.

Good Old Holly. What else is she gonna do? The guy ruined the family business, now they´ve got to pull together to save as much money as they can from the lawyers. So sad!!

Asking Shelton to be his mouthpiece is not the sign of a brave man. Just another whiner who had it all and thought he was above reproach. Wonder what blackmail he has on Shelton for Shelton to parrot the kind words and the ATW?

...and Petraeus is being disingenuous with his "paid the price (appropriately). He´s playing this as his resignation being the big punishment. What would he have done to a subordinate who jeapordized national security by whoring around on his wife and lettinging his squeeze see classified documents she wasn´t cleared for. How about finding them on her unclassified personal computer?

Petraeus makes Private Bradley Manning look like Soldier of the Year. They have Manning in a cell sleeping on a metal cot without clothes. Stepping down from the Director of the CIA position is "punishment" for what he has done ot national security?

You wish, General Betray-us.

Petraeus will be considered "paid in full" when he comes forward and speaks the truth, the WHOLE truth to the American people.
We have the right to know exactly how incompetent the administration was in the Benghazi incident.
He OWES that much to America.

Understatement, his fall is tragic...an absolutely brilliant career thrown out the window because he got weak-kneed when a pretty girl gave him a glance.

I would delete "up" from the headline.

I am sorry, I just cannot find it in my heart to condemn this good man. I hope he moves on and finds some other way to serve our great country. I suspect his wife will forgive him and that he will spend the rest of his life making their marriage a priority. Forgiveness is really much harder than than judgement and punishment.

Gotta love double standards, #13.

Some us live in reality and don´t predict fairy tale endings. His dowdy, unattractive, fat little wife has no choice but to forgive him. The poor gal suffered and sacrificed through is military career, and finds herself in her golden years with a national traitor and cheater for a spouse.

What´s she going to do? If she walks, she gets nothing. Forgiving is expedient.

He can make his marriage ´a priority´ all he wants now, but every time he goes alone to the grocery store, she´ll have thoughts of him shagging the checkout girl while she sits at home waiting. The marriage as they know it is over. In addition, he sold out the country and its secrets as well as his marriage vows for his fling with Ms Fitness.

Most guys just throw away family money on their back door women. He threw away his country and his entire career as well as his honor.

Interesting historical bit, his wife was the daughter of the Commandant when he was at West Point.

Social climbing much?

Don´t waste your time crying for Petraeus, as because of the double standard that is in place throughout the USA, after he spends a time in political purgatory, Petraeus will again land on his feet in a new job that most Americans of high moral character can only wish for!

And his private letter to an old friend is public because?

Tell us the whole absolute truth about Benghazi, General Petraeus. That will suffice.

The Clintons without the meaning of "is", the pink suit and the hairband.

"Mistakes were made"...