Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2012 Is...

...David Petraeus

By Evann Gastaldo

Posted Dec 13, 2012 10:03 AM CST

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Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2012 Is... — In this Monday, July 18, 2011 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus salutes during a changing of command ceremony from Petraeus to Gen. John Allen in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq, File Sadeq)

Barbara Walters unveiled her most fascinating person of the year last night: General David Petraeus. The sex-scandal-plagued former CIA director's extramarital affair and shocking resignation was a story that Walters deemed "irresistible" during her annual special. "The keeper of the nation's secrets unable to conceal his own." She didn't actually interview Petraeus, but she did sit down with others who made the list—including Chris Christie, who said it's "ridiculous" that critics think he's too overweight to be president, the AP reports.

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