by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 11, 2012 | Monitor
Gen. David Petraeus gives the thumbs up with his wife Holly at his retirement ceremony. Photo: DOD When it came out that CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his hagiographer, I got punked. “It seems so obvious in retrospect. How could you...
by Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman | Nov 9, 2012 | Monitor
David Petraeus being sworn in as CIA chief, with his wife Holly looking on. Photo: CIA Updated 10:23 pm. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has resigned. Petraeus told CIA employees Friday in a letter that he was stepping down “for...
by editor | Sep 8, 2010 | Analysis, Image, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Narrative, Politics, Religion, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry This is the second of a four-part series of posts on foreign reactions to recent anti-Muslim rhetoric in the U.S. In Part I we looked at the Park51 project, also known as the “Ground Zero Mosque,”...