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Lawmakers from both parties expressed frustration Monday that the FBI did not inform them that it was conducting an investigation that included former CIA Director David Petraeus. But it’s not at all clear that the agency violated protocol. Read more…

The re-elected president should be worrying about the Second-Term Curse. Second presidential terms have almost always been disappointing and sad with thwarted ambitions, scandal and a slow slide towards political irrelevance. Read more…

David Petraeus had another love affair long before the one that cost him his job running the CIA. It was with the press. The retired general’s skillful courtship of journalists brought him a career’s worth of favorable headlines. Read more…

FBI Director Robert Mueller’s top aide was told former CIA chief David Petraeus was having an extramarital affair that might have compromised national security a week before the Nov. 6 elections, a congressional official said Monday. Read more…