Check out this letter to the editor of the NYT earlier this year. (July 13, 2012) The plot thickens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/a-message-from-beyond.html?_r=0
MY WIFE’S LOVER
“My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project whose progress is seen worldwide as a demonstration of American leadership. (This might seem hyperbolic, but it is not an exaggeration.) I have met with him on several occasions, and he has been gracious. (I doubt if he is aware of my knowledge.) I have watched the affair intensify over the last year, and I have also benefited from his generosity. He is engaged in work that I am passionate about and is absolutely the right person for the job. I strongly feel that exposing the affair will create a major distraction that would adversely impact the success of an important effort. My issue: Should I acknowledge this affair and finally force closure? Should I suffer in silence for the next year or two for a project I feel must succeed? Should I be “true to my heart” and walk away from the entire miserable situation and put the episode behind me?” NAME WITHHELD
Don’t expose the affair in any high-profile way. It would be different if this man’s project was promoting some (contextually hypocritical) family-values platform, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. The only motive for exposing the relationship would be to humiliate him and your wife, and that’s never a good reason for doing anything. This is between you and your spouse. You should tell her you want to separate, just as you would if she were sleeping with the mailman. The idea of “suffering in silence” for the good of the project is illogical. How would the quiet divorce of this man’s mistress hurt an international leadership initiative? He’d probably be relieved.
The fact that you’re willing to accept your wife’s infidelity for some greater political good is beyond honorable. In fact, it’s so over-the-top honorable that I’m not sure I believe your motives are real. Part of me wonders why you’re even posing this question, particularly in a column that is printed in The New York Times.
Your dilemma is intriguing, but I don’t see how it’s ambiguous. Your wife is having an affair with a person you happen to respect. Why would that last detail change the way you respond to her cheating? Do you admire this man so much that you haven’t asked your wife why she keeps having sex with him? I halfway suspect you’re writing this letter because you want specific people to read this column and deduce who is involved and what’s really going on behind closed doors (without actually addressing the conflict in person). That’s not ethical, either.
I just hope it all leads back to Benghazi.
Odumbo’s men were going to sit on this until they needed it, and voila, Benghazi Gate, and bye-bye P4.
Do you think Patreus takes a canoe out tomorrow?
My mom used to say -
When women keep their skirts down and men their pants up, these things would not happen.
I just read that NYT ‘letter’. I ran across this post on another forum and went ‘hmmmmmmmm’:
Word out…is that the above letter I posted from the NYT’s July of 2012….was meant for Petraeus….Yet it ran affair the affair was over….So that letter was a THREAT…a threat to mind his P’s and Q’s….
Blackmail? …Why? …..For what purposes? A 4 star General, a particularly ambitious one ….would not want to go down in the trash heap of history….
If this is being leaked…a letter from July of 2012…. That ran in the New York Times, The Ethicist….it is because someone wants the people to know Petraeus was being blackmailed….someone from inside the FBI or the CIA….
Was this a shot across his bow to stand down as their planned kidnap scheme went forth…or to stand down as Missile Running was taking place to AlQaeda…or what?
Perhaps she was on to something big. Very big. So the FBI was brought in to take her out.
At first I was going to ask you if the letter is confirmed as actually coming from the husband, but reading it seems to answer that question.
So, Travis, is the gal the KGB imbed or is it her husband? One of them Fur Shur!
All the exectutives with knowledge of Benghazi are now civilians or shortly to become civilians. This means no classified information may be released without agency vetting.
This has been effectively covered up 100% as far as I can tell.
I gotta hand it to Obama, for coverup and Chicago politics, he's good.
A hero of the Bible is Joseph. He RAN from Potiphar’s wife instead of staying and allowing her to tempt him to sin any further than she likely had already tempted him. - These political sorts are role models, too, but not good ones. I sympathize with Patraeus’s wife; don’t know her age, but if nearing sixty, that can be a difficult age. You just can’t compete with these women who make a career almost out of their bodies, and in some cases have boocoos of money to spend on it. . . Ha. I’ve said many times that the Hollyweird celebs who marry and divorce repeatedly that I suspect the deal is that whichever one of them is the first one to hear the other one fart; they’re the ones who can file for a divorce on the grounds of unglamourousness. . .