Witch hunt in Washington

David Ignatius:

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The day Petraeus resigned, I received an e-mail from an Arab intelligence contact who expressed what surely has been going through the minds of many people around the world. I will quote it precisely, punctuation and all: “He needs to resign cause he has an affair? What da hell??? He is brilliant!!!! Why like this????”
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Once the affair was acknowledged it lost its potency as a potential blackmail event.  What is interesting about it from the point of view of the Libya debacle is that his resignation also freed him from having to be a team player pushing a flawed narrative.  Congress evidently saw that today in a closed hearing.  It will now be looking for who did the editing on the talking points.

My on view is that Clapper is less than brilliant DNI.  Donnelly is widely believed to have been responsible for leaks meant to make Obama look good.  Either or both could have been responsible for the bogus spin given to Susan Rice who was too ill informed to recognize the problem.