What does this suggest about this administration's vetting process? Patreaus' indiscretions didn't come up?
Imagine he was a Republican. How long do you think it would've taken to see his affair splashed all over the front page of the NYT?
The second-term curse goes like this: A president (e.g., Richard Nixon,
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, etc.) wins re-election, but
then his presidency implodes over the next four years -- mired in scandals
or disasters such as Watergate, Iran-Contra, Monica Lewinsky, the Iraqi
insurgency and Hurricane Katrina.
Apparently, like tragic Greek heroes, administrations grow arrogant after their re-election wins. They believe that they are invincible and that heir public approval is permanent rather than fickle.
The result is that Nemesis zeroes in on their fatal conceit and with a boom corrects their hubris. Or is the...
In this case,it does the double duty of discrediting Petraeus and diverting the discussion abut Benghazi itself,aka a "wag the dog" technique.
And that was before he and his Chicago Criminal Gang owned and operated and controlled -- and totally and abjectly politicized -- Justice and the FBI.