Comments on: Petraeus outed by Gmail

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:54:00 +0000

http://boingboing.net/2012/11/10/report-fbi-began-snooping-pet.html

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:17:00 +0000

I don’t care what is “safe to assume.” We are non in Soviet Russia. How did the GMail stuff get mixed into this? Were they monitoring him? Did they find someone who breached his e-mail?

By: SHeadius

SHeadius — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:01:00 +0000

How is what I wanna know.

By: Boris Bartlog

Boris Bartlog — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:24:00 +0000

Yes, this is just the sort of thing that would cause someone to fail a security clearance background check. And it’s not really a good idea to start making exceptions at the top, even if they seem justified on an individual basis.

By: tomservojr

tomservojr — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:23:00 +0000

Huh?

By: pjk

pjk — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:19:00 +0000

Also, he can’t even keep an extramarital affair secret. Clearly, not a very competent spy.

By: Tynam

Tynam — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:19:00 +0000

It’s not the affair that’s the problem, in itself. The problem is that a CIA chief who is having an affair is (a) open to blackmail from someone, or in this case, (b) hanging around with someone who tried to get access to his email.

I’m normally a big advocate of ‘who cares who they sleep with as long as they’re competent in their job’, but this is the specific exception – for an intel agency, having an affair can indicate a failure of competence. You really don’t want the intel chief to be more worried about keeping secrets from his wife and co-workers than from the enemy.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:46:00 +0000

*snicker* The title “Balls Deep” must have already been taken.

By: Katrina van Malksvig

Katrina van Malksvig — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:35:00 +0000

he’s the CHIEF OF THE CIA – it’s safe to assume EVERYTHING he does is monitored

having said that, I’m not sure why having an extramarital affair should cost him the job, people are having affairs all the time with no ill effect…

By: eli laztanguren

eli laztanguren — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:14:00 +0000

The banality of evil, always at work.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:57:00 +0000

Did I miss something? How or why did they monitor his GMail account?

By: AwesomeRobot

AwesomeRobot — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:12:00 +0000

Well, at least she titled her book appropriately?

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:46:00 +0000

Fan-tastic… Our CIA arch-spook was using a public webmail service. Was the answer to his ‘security question’ his mother’s maiden name, by any chance?

Well, on the plus side, I suspect that cracking his gmail is probably easier than getting an FOIA on his official email account, so maybe he’s just a transparency kind of guy!