there's an odor to this story. i'm thinking this may reach all the way to libya before it's over.

Exactly. Doing anything that might expose you to blackmail is very serious.

QFT

To be fair, some of you folks probably think that when there's a bump in the night.

If he didn't quit after over 3000 Americans died on US soil I highly doubt Libya would drive him over the edge.

stop making sense T

This makes no sense. Please reword and try again.

Thanks!

nope, but we'll see here. this is awfully suspicious. everything that involves the cia (in my book) is suspicious. always has, always will.

somehow libya is involved. i smell it.

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nope, but we'll see here. this is awfully suspicious. everything that involves the cia (in my book) is suspicious. always has, always will.

somehow libya is involved. i smell it.

Well Petreaus was at the movies...watching Argo..when the Bengazi thing was going on.

jesus h, i hope he got his money back!

He shouldn't be fired for that. He should be given a purple heart for taking one for the team.

The head of the CIA cannot be put in a situation where he can be blackmailed!

Another dose of alternate reality.

Meow.....   How catty.

Sir, you are consistent, if nothing else.

He should.  If your wife can't trust you, why should we?  These kinds of people are open to blackmail to keep their affairs secret.  People at the highest levels of national security need to be shown the boot when they fuck around.

The head of the CIA is not a politician.  Additionally, it doesn't matter.  Anyone that has their hand in national security and/or directly able to seriously impact the lives of those they represent, they need to be trustable.  While is is possible to have higher professional ethics than personal, I'm not sure how likely that is.  And as I just wrote, when you have personal secrets you want to hide, how are we to be sure you won't sell out your professional life to protect your personal life?

Right!  uh huh. sure.

I see nothing wrong with that at all.  Just a mistress.  It was just a blow job...

cela ne veut pas dire que tous les français acceptent la chose ... .

now see? this is already getting interesting. it wasn't necessarily due to the "affair", but the access the biographer had to his ish.

again, stay tuned...i know i will.

Not what the FBI was investigating her for. But if you want to play false equivalence, have fun!

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now see? this is already getting interesting. it wasn't necessarily due to the "affair", but the access the biographer had to his ish.

again, stay tuned...i know i will.

Which is not necessarily to say that the affair wasn't enough for the CIA. But yes, this is a little more interesting.

i love spook stuff. it makes my day every time. this is classic spy novel level shit now.

the onion just lost one layer.

You missed the bottom line - it is the puritanic society he lives in that forces him to lie and cover up - which in turn makes him a potential victim of blackmail and that's inacceptable in such a sensitive position.

Over here people simply wouldn't give a damn, no need to lie and cover up, no potential for blackmail.

70 % of couples cheat on each other, it's 90 % in the military I believe, so this is pretty much the norm rather than the exception.

He's a Democrat now.

No news here.

He's CIA. That is a major no-no. Very major no-no.