The Hobies intrigued me, but I didn't like like to pedal! I have a good Trek 630 for that...
Potomac R. near Big Pool, MD!
Posted on 11/12/2012 10:28:02 PM PST by kristinn
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — The FBI probe into the sex scandal that led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus has expanded to ensnare Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced early Tuesday.
According to a senior U.S. defense official, the FBI has uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of “potentially inappropriate” emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old Tampa woman whose close friendship with Petraeus ultimately led to his downfall. Allen, a Marine, succeeded Petraeus as the top allied commander in Afghanistan in July 2011.
The FBI first notified the Pentagon of its investigation into Allen’s communications with Kelley on Sunday evening, according to the senior defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the ongoing case.
In response, Pentagon chief Leon E. Panetta referred the investigation to the Defense Department’s Inspector General for further review, according to a statement released by Panetta early Tuesday as he was traveling to Australia.
The latest development in the unfolding scandal has shaken President Obama’s national-security staff and upended his carefully chosen plans for his military and intelligence team in his second term.
It also further calls into question the personal behavior of two of the U.S. military’s highest-ranking and most respected figures, who apparently ignored concerns about the highly sensitive nature of their jobs as they embraced personal relationships with younger women who were not their wives.
SNIP
In his statement, Panetta said Allen would remain as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan for now, “while the matter is under investigation and before the facts are determined.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
” Sounds more and more like a honey trap and smells more and more like someone setting it up. Is it foreign enemies...or domestice ones?”
What is surprising is that two of our top military leaders could be compromised so easily. I mean, these two are not exactly femme fatales. Are our senior military guys really so sexually frustrated that they’ll risk their careers for flings with these women? Perhaps the CIA should hire some hot babes with proper clearance to service our top servicemen discretely.
The Hobies intrigued me, but I didn't like like to pedal! I have a good Trek 630 for that...
Potomac R. near Big Pool, MD!
“She obviously likes the attention and the way she tilts her head and poses makes me think this gal believes she is way hotter than she really is.”
I have met women who do not really look all that hot, but have perfected ways of getting men to do practically anything they want.
I am calling BS on all of this.
After careful consideration on what has been going on wth the military over the last 4 years, I have come to the conclusion that:
THIS IS A PURGE BY THE MARXIST REGIME!!!
Proof? John Kerry for Secretary of Defense???
Nuff said.
Bad rotator cuffs on both shoulers and a torn bicep head on my right arm/shoulder limits any paddling.
I can stand up and paddle in reasonably calm water with my Freedom Hawks and their pontoon system. However, even with the better designed Pathfinder re going through the water, I’m limited about a minute of normal kayak paddling.
I have a Bass Yak conversion electric motor on my Pathfinder and will be buying a Torqeedo Kayak motor this spring. The new Torqeedo 403 Kayak motor is an incredible example of German engineering re battery life, power, ease of use and probable life of the unit and battery at less much weight of a normal marine battery and electric trolling motor.
Good grief, this is like trying to figure out who did who in the Ewing family. I give up.
Sounds like what a guy would write if he was imitating a cat fight. Clueless or an amateur.
Tempted to agree with you. If you look at Broadwell's resume she's got more background knowledge about security issues than the average 4-star or even a POTUS or a Secretary of State.
OK she could be bat-ship crazy, but even then the e-mails seem too blatently outre for someone with her background. They sound more "hiking the Appalacian Trails" or "I'm dead".
How is the adultery connected to Benghazi other than being peripheral, concurring events?
This is why conservatives assert the reality that sex is not “free” and the character you have in your personal business (good or evil) goes with you into your professional life. There is not really a separation. You bring the same character and virtue to your job that you demonstrate at home unless you are schizophrenic. That is the “logic” missing from libertarian social ideology and why libertarianism is not the founding ideology of the constitution.
Why does virtue matter in all American people who want to be free and successful? Think about half of Americans voting to enslave the other half of Americans to the oppression and poverty of socialism in the last election.
Think about all the physical, mental and social disease (crime like robbery, rape, drug addiction and other violence) that comes out of the public’s lack of virtue in “their private lives” and how that lack of self control and lack of character resulted in their rejection of the personal responsibility of freedom.
The modern culture of raising up attention whore sluts and thug nuts produces society-wide ramifications. The lack of virtue in culture and life wrecks people’s careers, their bodies and their families and they need those EBT cards and free health care and housing to take care of the offspring they produce. Among the a corrupt elite class you get white collar crime and abuse of the constitutional limitations among the self serving posse.
Do you think Wall Street’s lack of virtue “in their private lives” does not result in the dishonesty and scams we have seen in the stock market and banks? How about giving out and taking more debt than you can realistically and honorably recover? How about the “solution” of printing money until the economy crashes? The same goes in the political and government realm, and the country’s social realm.
An elite class (like ours today) that has no virtue needs to corrupt the middle and lower classes so that the corrupt elite are held to no standard of virtue and the elite can lead lives of immediate gratification. That elitist mission to corrupt the public is what the entertainment industry, corporate culture, illiberal education, corrupt religion and atheism and dirty politics accomodates.
Socialism is the system necessary to accomodate people who lack the virtue needed for self control in order for them to be free and independent both economically and socially. The founders knew virtue matters and that is why we used to have religious freedom for Christians and they would teach Western virtue and constitutional freedom to the lower, middle, and upper classes so they could be free and nail corrput elitists.
Marxists undermined America’s culture of virtue because they knew it would lead where it has led - to economic and government Marxism. Libertarians accidently aided in that by incorporating cultural Marxism (aka, humanism) into their poliltical cause of economic freedom. Social conservatives are dismissed as party poopers and haters for resisting the elite’s mission of National social corruption using entertainment, education, business and politics.
The Lebanese twins are “Kardashianesque”
So, which one is Deep Throat?
Her family is Lebanese——not sure if she was born here but the family came about that long ago. Anyway it hurts my jaws because there’s a bunch of old Benny Hill jokes coming to mind.
Just guessing here, but I'd bet there wasn't an affair between the Mrs. Broadwell and the man who appears so small and goofy looking that he swims in his uniform, Gen. Patreaus. They may have both been working for a certain alphabet agency and been ready to out king Obama for his part in allowing the killing of our agents and Ambassador. When Beer Leader got re-elected, and knowing the truth about Benghazi spells i-m-p-e-a-c-h-m-e-n-t for him, perhaps someone ‘recommended’ Patreaus fess up to a fake affair...or else?
Don't know where the truth is in all this but my common sense says there is a lot more to this then what meets the eye.
I’m leaning toward your theory.
(Ping, linking your article)
11/13/12
“David Petraeus Personally Investigated Benghazi Attack”
“He was looking forward to testifying,” a Petraeus friend told ABC News. “He wanted to be fully prepared...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959023/posts
Looking at those e-mails it seems plausible that one set was written by a West Point grad with Masters from Uni Denver and Harvard, and the other set was written by a Real Housewife of Tampa Bay.
I don't think that is really certain at this point. It's not certain anyone told them to stand down and if so who. They were in-country so they required no POTUS CBA in order to act. The same is true of the 8 man team that came from Tripoli too. Only Woods was at the annex, FWIW, at the time the consulate was under attack so only Woods and the guys he took defied orders not to if such orders were given. Doherty came with the team from Tripoli.
“I doubt if there’s a man on earth who has 30,000 pages full of words in him to communicate with a woman. “
I love your sense of humor!
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