... and sometimes a powerful man boinking a hottie is banal .... well, most of the time, now that I think about.

who didn't appreciate the General! He has not been liked very well as DCI.

I suspect, with over ego'd generatls beeing fleeced for information.

The jury voted 1-5 to LEAVE IT, but Jury #4 had a different view:

How silly.

I was juror #6.

with Rmoney, I would have said, Nah...but they were sure they had stolen/bought the election and Betrayus has always had his own agenda. It sounds like they (he and Allen) were in a special double dating situation that covered even greater sins.

but wasn't going to say it.

To spring his trap on the conspirators before they could act!

they say a military coup is the only thing that can save the country.

And foil the plot, leading to the public shaming of Petraeus on Veteran's Day? It just seems the sex angle is not enough to lead to such a dramatic fall by a leading government official. I feel like the sex/affair part of the story is a distraction. Will it get more salacious to keep us from looking for the real story?

Benghazi was the October Surprise. It went terribly wrong.

The bad information fed to State was deliberate.

Romney was all over it the moment the story broke. And, it was true, it would not have happened had he been POTUS.

Obama knew exactly what was going on by the time of the second debate, and was daring Romney to "go there" when he said "Please proceed, Governor." Obama was not taunting Mitt because he knew he was leading him into a semantic trap. Romney pounced on what he believed was a (forced) blunder by the president. Obama's "gotcha" moment over wording was just the way it played out in the debate.

Hillary, and also Bill, understood what had gone down. This might have fueled Bill's passion in campaigning for Obama.

The exposure and humiliation of the general is the beginning of the great retribution.

IMO

Sharing information and taking credit for accomplishments has become ingrained. I have a relative who was in the CIA and cannot talk about what he did. He did say one time, very seriously, that if the American people knew exactly what they did there would be a 'real' problem with American society and that some things will never be known. Information and evidence is destroyed absolutely and peoples memories are subject to manipulation and mistakes.

Army issue socks?

that would be a lot of piercings

saw a picture of him in his dress blues and the he has a crap load of medals and whatever else those things may be called

It is just sex and jealously bringing down a general.

I can see where it just might be a "big head/little head" conflict issue...
I'm just amazed that they were ALL foolish enough to actually leave an Email trail...

not to mention computers in general. Not the enlisted, mind you, but it's the brass and policy makers that keep getting into trouble with computers. From not having protocol on handling electronic data - like wiping hard drives on field and admin laptops when a unit gets ready to transition back stateside without backing up all the reports and artifacts that had been kept on them during deployment, to not reminding people - especially the brass - that e-mail is like a recorded phone call, and just because you send it to the "trash", doesn't mean you've permanently deleted it...

Haele

And let's not forget Dick Cheney has deep roots in the Pentagon including many 'leave behinds'. He also purchased a home within a mile of the Pentagon.

Lest we forget Prescott Bush and the "Business Plot" coup attempt-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_plot

...I'd wondered if because he was so silent all of this time, if something stinky was planned. Looks like I was wrong, and what a pleasure for him to have gone silent all of this time.

And embezzled funny money? I don't know.

It's an eerie piece of fiction written in 1992 and entitled "The Origins of the US Military Coup of 2012".

The link is a 1.3mb pdf document, so proceed with caution.
www.carlisle.army.mil/ usawc/ parameters/ Articles/ 2010winter/ Dunlap_Jr.pdf


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