Slate journalist Fred Kaplan reported today that General David Petraeus resigned his CIA director post over an affair with journalist and author Paula Broadwell.
Broadwell (pictured, via) wrote All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, a biography published by Penguin Press in January. She has a Twitter account, and most recently tweeted about the general: “My take: Petraeus ldrshp maxims in Newsweek http://tinyurl.com/byeqtsx Take performance personally/if u r ok 2 b average, so 2 will be your team.”
Follow this link to read the complete report at Slate.
The publisher even tweeted about the book when the news broke this afternoon.
Breaking: CIA Director #Petraeus resigns. (@paulabroadwell on how he got the job: ow.ly/fat3m)
— The Penguin Press (@penguinpress) November 9, 2012