CIA Director David Petraeus has submitted his resignation to President Obama, citing an extramarital affair.
In a statement sent to the CIA workforce today, Petraeus said he went to the White House Thursday to ask the president to accept his resignation. The president accepted his resignation today.
"After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair," Petraeus said in the letter to the CIA workforce. "Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours."
Petraeus took over as director of the CIA in September 2011. Mr. Obama is expected to release a written response to Petraeus' resignation later today.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a statement that the CIA director's decision "represents the loss of one of our nation's most respected public servants."
"From his long, illustrious Army career to his leadership at the helm of CIA, Dave has redefined what it means to serve and sacrifice for one's country," he said.
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Obama goes after Romney's Jeep ad in Ohio - CBS News
(CBS News) President Obama spent the final Friday of the campaign stumping before crowds of 3,000 and 4,000 in high school gyms and a converted barn in the critical swing state of Ohio. The president will return to Ohio Saturday morning and the Obama camp says their commitment on the ground in Ohio is not an indication that they are nervous about losing the battleground state, but is simply an acknowledgement that it is a must-win state for both sides.
Campaign officials say the large rallies that characterized his 2008 campaign -- crowds of 40,000 in Indiana -- are scheduled for this weekend.
In the last three days of the race, the president is holding three events in Ohio, two events in Wisconsin, and two in Iowa. Obama will also take part in events in Virginia, New Hampshire, Florida, and Colorado before heading to Chicago to watch the returns on Election Day.
On the trail, Mr. Obama took advantage of new jobs numbers out on Friday, which showed the country created more jobs than expected last month.
"This morning, we learned that companies hired more workers in October than at anytime in the last eight months," the president said Friday.
At all three of his Ohio campaign stops, Obama went after a Romney ad that suggests Jeep is moving jobs from Ohio to China.
"Folks who work at the Jeep plant have been having to call up their employers because they're worried," Obama said. "Of course it turns out it's not true. The car companies themselves have told Governor Romney to knock it off. Knock it off, that's what they said!"
The Obama campaign believes the ad will be Romney's undoing in Ohio, where it's gotten a lot of attention.