CIA director quits over extramarital affair

Friday, November 9, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) -- David Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, abruptly resigned Friday as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair.

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