he is a great general, very well respected. this is very problematic, the timing of it and everything. you talked about him being blackmail material. if he was blackmail material, then he became plaque mail material from the day he went into the central intelligence agency greta: as a general. if you are harboring anything like that, through the whole period, it gets more serious after that. but the cia, we learned from katherine, did what the fbi usually does, a full field investigation of someone to make sure they don t have problems like that. how could any full field investigation of general petraeus in afghanistan miss this if it had happend? when did people find this out? what it sounds like is that general petraeus was blackmail material from the day he entered the cia, until the day he left it. the mayor had a good point. why did he suddenly leave now? did he become a security risk now? or was it bk because the scandal