This entire episode is very Nixonian.
And the shame of it all is she's not even hot. Not sure I would have gone "all in" with this chick.
FYI: Here is the woman's bio from the webpage at her doctoral program. There's enough to make a person suspicious if she had any ulterior motives.
File under "shit you can't make up":
The affair was with his biographer, a woman who coauthored the book, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus."
The problem is that this is SPYING 101. This is how we got tons of data on Saddam Hussein (including his DNA, *nudge, nudge, wink, wink*), for instance.
That's why the guy on the secret service had to resign, too.
Honestly who gives a flying fuck who is screwing who? I could care less.
I'm not condoning the extra-marital affair in any way shape or form, but I will say that if you can't even keep THAT secret out of the public eye, you probably have no business being the director of the CIA in the first place... Seriously, you're pretty bad at your job.