Is there a really good write up of the events anywhere? Somewhere during the last page of this I think I got lost as to what exactly happened and when.
Petraeus is having an affair with his biographer.
an FBI agent has the hots for the biographer, is sending her shirtless photos of himself and somehow catches wind of the affair, who knows how.
He starts spreading rumors around the office to get at petraeus and snatch the girl away.
He beleives that he can politically hurt Obama by outing his CIA director as an adulterer and also further his chances with the biographer, since she's a republican like him and would be impressed by the FBI agent's success in derailing his re-eleciton/credibility (I have no idea). So, he raises the issue to ethics, who start an investigation.
The ethics team takes him off the investigation when they notice how obsessive he was getting and discover he was trying to get into the biographer's pants.
He then tips off Eric Cantor and other GOP leadership in congress so they can bring the matter public and do their little obama witch hunt.
Also, the investigation has discovered that hte biographer was ALSO having inappropriate relations with a general, in addition to CIA director Petraeus.
so you have the stalker FBI agent with the hots for the biographer who is banging the CIA director and a general. The stalker FBI agenet thinks bringing this information to the surface will hurt Obama so he does, and he also collaberates with the house majority whip on it.
It's Burn After Reading, except in real life