History's steamiest political sex scandals
POSTED: 07:52 AM PDT Oct 24, 2011
UPDATED: 12:11 PM PST Nov 09, 2012
With CIA Director David Petraeus resigning over an affair, look back at some of the biggest political sex scandals.
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On Aug. 12, 2004, New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced: "I am a gay American." The married governor said he had "engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man" -- whom his aides immediately named as his homeland security adviser Golan Cipel -- and that he would resign effective Nov. 15, 2004.
