Brett McGurk, President Obama's pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, has withdrawn from consideration following revelations about questionable conduct, an administration official said Monday.
The personal conduct of McGurk (pictured) came under intense scrutiny since flirtatious e-mails exchanged with Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon were made public.
The e-mails appear to show that the two carried on an affair while they were stationed in Baghdad in 2008. They later married.
Chon recently resigned her position at the newspaper in the wake of the controversy.
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someone helpmie...I'm not getting this...emails to someone whom you are having an affair...wwhatt's the problem???
Were they married to other people at the time?
Because it says now that they married later...I'm not getting it...if they were UN married at the time, I see no problem....yeesh!
At the rate Iraq's complacency over it's own security has been lately, it almost doesn't matter who Mr. Obama, "picks" to be the U.S. Ambassador in Iraq, when it's almost is certain they will wind up killed anyways.
Drooling over emails and jpegs. Maybe this guy should be executed for being only human? Obama could send Jesus over there, and somebody would still whine.
i read extra-marital affair somewhere else
trully can you be trustworthy and lack integrity within your spousal relationship?
So they later married??? To each other? If so whats the big fat furry deal? Guess we kinda need a few more facts here!
We know how perfect the reds are....