Akui Selingkuh, Petraeus Mundur sebagai Direktur CIA
Admitting to Affair, Petraeus Resigns as CIA Chief
Editor : Mohamad Aslan
Translator : Dhelia Gani
DIREKTUR CIA David Petraeus secara mengejutkan menyatakan mundur,
Sabtu, setelah diduga berselingkuh dengan penulis biografinya, seperti
diklaimnya sendiri.
Dalam pengunduran dirinya, yang ditujukan
kepada agen CIA, Petraeus menulis bahwa ´perilaku seperti itu tidak
dapat diterima´ untuk seorang pejabat senior pemerintah.
Presiden
Obama menerima pengunduran diri dan menggambarkannya sebagai ´jenderal
cemerlang di antara generasinya´ serta menambahkan: "Dengan ukuran
apapun, jasa David Petraeus membuat Amerika lebih aman dan lebih kuat."
Petraeus
dilantik sebagai Direktur CIA pada September 2011 setelah menjabat
sebagai kepala koalisi pertama di Irak dan kemudian di Afghanistan.
Wakil direktur Michael Morell akan bertindak sebagai kepala sampai ditunjuknya pengganti Petraeus.
Investigasi FBI
Skandal
tersebut terungkap setelah FBI menggelar investigasi terhadap penulis
biografi tersebut, Paula Broadwell, karena diduga meretas (hacked) email
mantan jenderal, seperti dilaporkan NBC News dan Slate yang dikutip
Daily Mail.
Broadwell, yang meneliti buku ´All In´ selama tiga
tahun, memiliki akses khusus pada Petraeus di Afghanistan. Namun sebuah
sumber kepada NBC menyatakan mustahil mengajukan tuntutan kriminal atas
dugaan hacking, sementara Petraeus sendiri tidak diinvestigasi.
Petraeus
mengundurkan diri hari ini setelah mengaku berselingkuh dari istri yang
dinikahinya selama 37 tahun, Holly, yang jelas ´tidak dapat diterima´
dilakukan pejabat senior pemerintahan.
Petraeus pertama kali
bertemu Broadwell enam tahun lalu, ketika ia berbicara di depan
mahasiswa Universitas Harvard, dan Broadwell adalah seorang peneliti,
sehingga mereka akhirnya saling mengenal dan menjadi dekat.
Broadwell,
yang bertugas di militer selama lebih dari satu dekade, bermukim di
Charlotte, North Carolina bersuamikan seorang radiolog, Dr Scott
Broadwell dan dikaruniai dua anak, Lucien dan Landon.
Dalam
biografi tersebut, Broadwell mengungkapkan ia pertama kali bertemu
Petraeus saat berkunjung ke Harvard pada musim semi 2006 ketika Petraeus
menjabat komandan Fort Leavenworth.
"Saya berada di antara para
mahasiswa diundang kampus untuk bertemu dengan jenderal saat setelah
makan malam, karena latar belakang militer saya," aku Broadwell.
Foto2: Daily Mail
CIA Director David Petraeus dramatically resigned today after allegedly having an affair with his biographer, it has been claimed.
In his resignation letter addressed to CIA agents, Petraeus wrote that ´such behaviour is unacceptable´ for a senior administration official.
President Obama accepted Petraeus´ resignation but described him as ´one of the outstanding General officers of his generation´ as he added: ´By any measure, through his lifetime of service David Petraeus has made our country safer and stronger.´
Petraeus had been sworn in as head of the CIA in September 2011 after serving as head of the coalition forces first in Iraq and then in Afghanistan.
Deputy director Michael Morell will serve as acting head of the agency until a permanent replacement for Petraeus is appointed.
FBI Investigation
The alleged affair was uncovered after the FBI launched an investigation into the biographer, Paula Broadwell, for allegedly hacking into the former general´s email, NBC News and Slate reported.
Broadwell, who researched the book ´All In´ for three years, had extensive access to Petraeus in Afghanistan. Yet sources told NBC it is unlikely she will face criminal charges after the alleged hacking, stressing that Petraeus himself is under no investigation.
Petraeus stepped down today after confessing to cheating on his wife of 37 years, Holly - behaviour he explained was ´unacceptable´ for a senior administration official.
He first met Broadwell six years ago when he addressed students at Harvard University, where she is a researcher, and they eventually got to know each other better during mile-long runs.
Broadwell, who served in the military for more than a decade, lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her radiologist husband, Dr. Scott Broadwell, and their two young sons, Lucien and Landon.
In the biography, Broadwell revealed she first met him during his visit to Harvard in spring 2006 when he was a Commander at Fort Leavenworth.
´I was among the students invited by the school to meet with the general at a dinner afterward, because of my military background,´ she explained.