Which, for the head of the CIA, is a scandal.

mwbri on November 21, 2012 at 10:09 AM

Could not agree more.
Circle the wagons…….
…………..these are the same people who glorified and deemed the “Lion of the Senate” and “crusader for women’s rights” the same Kennedy that left a woman to drown while he slept off his drunk and had no problem dry humping waitress’s in restaurants full of people.

As long as you share the liberal ideology and vote for the cause….
….it’s all good…nothing to see here.

Hypocrisy or lies. Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) was doomed when it emerged that the family-values politician filmed an abstinence-only video with his lover, who had worked for him. Clinton’s lies made Ken Starr possible — and then-House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston resigned during the impeachment proceedings against the president because Hustler magazine was about to expose his own infidelities.

Petraeus? None alleged.

Tell that to his wife. Or her husband.

Baxter Greene on November 21, 2012 at 9:59 AM

And just think the German spies did not have I pads and Smartphones. Milbank is naively telling us that the old rules (JFK and Clinton rules) still apply. What an unserious person!

She may or may not be right on Benghazi being a black ops center, but where did she get information that led her to that conclusion? Pillow talk, Dana?

mwbri on November 21, 2012 at 9:42 AM

…remember when the Germans used to send good looking women as spies to sleep with military leaders so that they could get inside information through “pillow talk”…..

Wasn’t long ago that we had some good looking Russian spies busted on our soil looking to make the same inroads using their “assets”….

….yea….no scandal here at all.

In truth, Petraeus’s behavior doesn’t even merit the label “scandal.” L’affaire Petraeus lacks every element of the definition. …

I don’t know what definition Dana is using, but illegality is not one of its elements

Dictionary.com scandal definition:

scan·dal   /ˈskændl/ Show Spelled [skan-dl] Show IPA noun, verb, scan·daled, scan·dal·ing or ( especially British ) scan·dalled, scan·dal·ling.
noun
1. a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc.
2. an offense caused by a fault or misdeed.
3. damage to reputation; public disgrace.
4. defamatory talk; malicious gossip.
5. a person whose conduct brings disgrace or offense.

That immoral conduct creates disorder not only in the general, societal sense but immediately in his personal affairs. It creates enemies, distractions, and risk.

You don’t sleep with another person period, because that person cannot be trusted to be purely interested in your ability to run a 6 minute mile between the sheets.

When that other person is an ambitious, opsec wannabee, underqualified, resume gilding and quite willing to sacrifice honor for advancement, to expose yourself to their machinations is nothing but blind and foolish.

One of the consenting adults was an ambitious, tech-savvy, West Point grad, who thought she knew what was going on in Benghazi. She may or may not be right on Benghazi being a black ops center, but where did she get information that led her to that conclusion? Pillow talk, Dana?