set the fw bi on paula broad well. petraeus affair. biographer and mistress paula broadwell. schenn an begans. very explicit e-mails. friend employ, perhaps flirtatio flirtatious. is this story serious or just salacious. s that there been too much reckless speculation and has it overshadowed popp s agenda or the investigation of the investigation in ia reese role with benghazi. the consecutive executive steps down. can he jump-start a paper that s been through tough times? aisle ask him. a i m howard kufrts and this is reliable sources. it is for the media the perfect storm when the combined sex, scandal, war, spying, and gossip, not to mention an fbi investigation and secret e-mails. the coverage of the petraeus scandal has been relentless, sometimes breathless, a tabloid tale in which the facts are often murky. the extramarital affair, we re told, was with one paula broadwell. the fbi opened an investigation into whether broadwell had access to petraeu
actually i thought was a resignable offense saying that the president sim pa thieszed with the people. there are a lot of people that are nominally on romney and ryan s side that condemned this stuff. yes. but i want to separate. now there s this broader politization. we should know what the heck happened in libya. we should know about why there was this gap. when you want to talk about politics, what s striking to me is the absence of the state department from all of this. this is what s bizarre. this is state department facility. it s a state department employee. from my reporting in the state department, stevens and hillary were fairly close. there was a personal line. he was seen as an incredibly important member of the foreign service. he had a distinguished career. the libya intervention was a huge signature of the obama foreign policy. as soon as this happens, it s the white house, jay carney and susan rice out on the sunday shows who are doing all the defense of it and st
assassination attempt in bends. i am joined by richard kim, my colleague. goldie tailor, contributor to our sister website, amy davidson, senior editor at the new yorker. author of the close read blog at the new yorker .com which has been absolutely essential reading for the last few months. the close read at the new yorker .com. michael moynihan. cultural news editor at newsweek and the daily beast. fantastic to have you all here. thursday s debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan was a substantive contest between two men who were well briefed and on their game. conventional wisdom was twofold. biden needed to calm democrats. he needed to set the stage for his boss to regain his footing during his second debate with mitt romney this tuesday. i think biden accomplished that mission. i think what made the difference was that biden was aggressive, uninhibited with preoccupation by preserving his own image and adept at leveraging his stature. the single best
goldie tailor, contributor to our sister website, amy davidson, senior editor at the new yorker. author of the close read blog at the new yorker .com which has been absolutely essential reading for the last few months. the close read at the new yorker .com. michael moynihan. cultural news editor at newsweek and the daily beast. fantastic to have you all here. thursday s debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan was a substantive contest between two men who were well briefed and on their game. conventional wisdom was twofold. biden needed to calm democrats. he needed to set the stage for his boss to regain his footing during his second debate with mitt romney this tuesday. i think biden accomplished that mission. i think what made the difference was that biden was aggressive, uninhibited with preoccupation by preserving his own image and adept at leveraging his stature. the single best exchange biden wasted no time for calling out ryan for his apparent hypocr
administration s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatics missions but to sim pa 2450iz with those who waninged the attacks. the obama campaign fired back, quote, we re shocked that at a time when the united states of america is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in libya governor romney would choose to launch a political attack. sarah palin then joined the fray paraphrasing a line often used to mock her, tweeting apparently president obama can t see egypt and libya from his house. now here s what we don t get. why the romfully c fullney camp wait until they had all the facts, not waiting to see exactly what was going on, waiting a day to condemn. now they re in a political box because what can they do. they know that they ve made a