Vernon Loeb, an editor at the Washington Post and co-author of Paula Broadwell’s biography of David Petraeus, was “dumbfounded” to learn of the affair between Broadwell and Petraeus.
Loeb writes in the Washington Post:
I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David H. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I’d worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus’s year commanding the war in Afghanistan. On rare occasions, her good looks and close access would prompt a colleague to raise an eyebrow about their relationship, but I never took it seriously.
