How to follow the Petraeus CyberClusterFuck: a flowchart

Xeni Jardin 7:21 pm Wed Nov 14, 2012

Hilary Sargent, investigator and chart-maker, is trying to make sense of the Petraeus scandal. So are we. So it was with great delight that we encountered her explanatory flowchart. LARGE: Download PDF, or JPG. (Headline HT: @joneilnyt)

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