Comments on: Report: FBI investigation into CIA chief's email "started with two women," not Petraeus (updated)

By: John Howard

John Howard — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:19:00 +0000

Actually, if the admin was trying to protect itself, wouldn’t they have hung on to this information and used it to force Petraeus to testify in a way that they wanted and then let him “retire” to “be with his family”?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:14:00 +0000

Toss Ryan in and you’ve got a deal.

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:51:00 +0000

Petraeus/Cantor

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:33:00 +0000

Just don’t breed.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:30:00 +0000

She certainly looks like she could take him down faster than he could blink. Very physically dominant. Maybe that’s what he’s into. It’s a pretty common fetish for people in positions of enormous power.

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:29:00 +0000

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

— Walt Disney

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:20:00 +0000

I’m waiting for the fanfic.

By: mrtt

mrtt — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:34:00 +0000

Amazing that someone in such a sensitive position would use Gmail instead of something untraceable like ThreadThat. Everything shared using TT is encrypted end-to-end and is never transmitted through an email relay. Need to erase everything ever shared? It takes about 10 seconds to log in and delete your account, which deletes every shred of info ever posted.

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:39:00 +0000

That’s an understatement. I hate to judge by looks, too, but maybe on some level we’re hard wired to respond to “looks”. That said, here’s my take: I’ve seen her in 3 different venues online. She has 2 “looks”. One is a 1940′s tweed jacket buttoned up the front, head mistress and the other were 2 off the shoulder numbers that seemed oddly inappropriate for the setting (The Daily Show and something else). A character with a German accent from a Mel Brooks film comes to mind.
Just going by looks and not facts or science she makes the General look like a boyscout at the jamboree.

By: Mary Margaret McCurnin

Mary Margaret McCurnin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:15:00 +0000

Petraeus had his very own, very personal pussy riot. Go pussies!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:13:00 +0000

I know that you can’t really tell anything from someone’s picture on the web, but she looks….. intense.

By: stuhfoo

stuhfoo — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:55:00 +0000

not sure if sarcasm or…

By: Albert Tallman

Albert Tallman — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:41:00 +0000

Don’t we all!

By: buddy66

buddy66 — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:35:00 +0000

Of course he used email. Pussy makes you want to slap your own damn self.

By: lysdexia

lysdexia — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:11:00 +0000

Megatron.

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:34:00 +0000

No, it’s a reference to those chairs on 2 sticks that guys carry

By: mindfu

mindfu — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:31:00 +0000

I would say even, all older males in power. There’s a certain need for validation that they’re still bull of the herd and can command a harem if they want to, just like the younger bulls.

By: Xploder

Xploder — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:21:00 +0000

chuckle, snort

By: Xploder

Xploder — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:21:00 +0000

What criminal POTUS?

By: Xploder

Xploder — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:19:00 +0000

Anyone who would actually believe that people in government or the military rarely participate in extra-marital affairs is a fool.

By: John Maple

John Maple — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:14:00 +0000

It’s worse with “strange pigeons”.

By: Joe Vanegas

Joe Vanegas — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:06:00 +0000

Isn’t the FBI famous for wanting to top the CIA? Ousting the director would be a major score in that game of office politics. Shouldn’t we be looking in the Hoover building for plausible parties?

By: Julius Smith

Julius Smith — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:56:00 +0000

Unrelated, but is Sedan Chair a reference to VSC by any chance? :P

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:50:00 +0000

24 hours after your post, Antinous, it looks like you’re on to something. Latest report identifies woman who reported Broadwell to FBI as she feared for her own safety after receiving threatening messages from Mrs. B.

By: chris jimson

chris jimson — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:40:00 +0000

Damn, you beat me to it.

Sounds like the condition a certain Captain Kirk was afflicted with.

By: literatewench

literatewench — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:40:00 +0000

I jsut google image searched “strange pussy”. Only two pictures were of cats.

By: Eric McClellan

Eric McClellan — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:15:00 +0000

damn! all pussy is strange, sonn

By: Moses Lambert

Moses Lambert — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:00:00 +0000

grooaannn…

By: Ipo

Ipo — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Depends. How strange?

By: FoolishOwl

FoolishOwl — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:55:00 +0000

I read a textbook that outlined the detailed rules produced by the US federal government decades ago for secure operating systems. Shortly after I read that, there was a story on how the Air Force workstations for controlling drones were infected with malware. In the discussion of that story, people from the military talked about the shift in policy towards using commodity hardware and operating systems.

The upshot of this that it seems that everyone takes shortcuts for convenience, even those with the most serious security concerns, and it’s really not surprising that the director of the CIA would use Gmail for personal email.