WE LIVE IN A WORLD GONE MAD (What the heck is happening with those who are defending this country?)

Powerline ^ | 11/13/2012 | John Hindraker

[SeekAndFind]

In the post immediately below, Scott recaps some of the recent developments in the Petraeus scandal. I want to add one or two more, and also elaborate a bit on one of the items that Scott mentioned.

The most significant of the recent bombshells, I think, is the report that Eric Holder knew about the scandal as of late summer, when the FBI contacted his office to get permission to interview Petraeus and Paula Braodwell. Holder apparently claims that he never mentioned this potentially election-derailing news to his boss and good buddy, Barack Obama. I find this claim–that, while many others in Washington knew of the Petraeus investigation, including Congressmen like Eric Kantor, Obama himself was blissfully ignorant until three days after the election–wholly implausible, just as I find implausible the claim that it was sheer coincidence that the scandal didn’t become public until then.

The least significant development, but one of the weirdest, is the replacement of the FBI agent who began the investigation on behalf of the bureau. The agent, whose name apparently has not been disclosed, was removed from the investigation after he “grew obsessed” with it, and specifically with Jill Kelley, to whom he sexted shirtless photos of himself.

Jill Kelley

The story I want to return to is the one involving another general, John Allen, who succeeded Petraeus as the commander of American and allied troops in Afghanistan. As a form of collateral damage, apparently, the FBI has found that General Allen, like the FBI agent, is obsessed with Jill Kelley. She must be quite a woman! Allen can be printed, in most editions, in under 1,500 pages. So what on earth were General Allen and Mrs. Kelley writing so as to fill up 20,000 to 30,000 pages? Poetry? Love notes? The longest military treatise ever? Assume it took General Allen a mere five minutes to either read or write one page–no doubt a low estimate, when it comes to writing–and use the mid-point of 25,000 pages. That would mean that Allen devoted 125,000 minutes to his correspondence with Mrs. Kelley, or 2,083 hours–in other words, a full work year (40 hours times 52 weeks). No wonder we aren’t winning in Afghanistan!

[Chuzzlewit]

wow.. human nature..who’d a thunk.. the difference is, thanks to American’s appetite for this crap, now we hear about it, 24/7.

And isn’t it convenient that all these higher ups are now so completely discredited, that they won’t be believed...and are now busy “putting their lives together” that they can’t testify?

They will all testify in a couple of years, when the whole thing is forgotten and the press has moved on.

[Ken522]

I think someone in this adminisration is releasing this information to the media to bring the military hierarchy down ...

[chris37]

Well, I think what we are witnessing is the simultaneous suicide ad murder of a once great nation by awful, awful people.

And there isn’t going to be any stopping it.

[basil]

We’re so screwed........

[Irenic]

I think part of the problem with our military is this long protracted nation building BS. Troops are going for multiple tours and families are being torn apart. They are away from their families over and over and sit in a backwards miserable land. Structure in all forms is breaking down.

[jagusafr]

Sure seems as though Kelley has been playing the role of femme fatale to a number of men in positions of authority. Maybe she’s just cursed with a come-hither projection, or maybe she really enjoys the attention.

Just an observation, not a condemnation.

[M Kehoe]

I won't be surprised if all the JCS aren't replaced by Jan 2013.

5.56mm

[rarestia]

Is there not a part of the Alinsky plan to discredit and dismantle the military?

[duckman]

“I think someone in this adminisration is releasing this information to the media to bring the military hierarchy down ...”

I think you’re right, since zero is considering the appointment of J.F.Kerry to the Sec of Defense position. Very troubling.

[Bitsy]

But, Barney Frank who openly lived with another man while in government gets a liberal pass. I am sick of MSM being the National Enquirer. Well, I guess the progression is inevitable when the MSM has becme a bunch of leftist liberal hypocrites.

[stuartcr]

I think we’re finally realising that everyone is pretty much the same, even those we think should be above certain behaviors.

[RoosterRedux]

So what on earth were General Allen and Mrs. Kelley writing so as to fill up 20,000 to 30,000 pages?

Er...let me guess. Something other than romance?

[MestaMachine]

More stinky socks.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.

Benghazi Index

[PGR88]

We have a degraded culture. Affairs, sex and perversion have always occurred with people of power, but at least everyone paid respect to the idea of moral behavior.

Now, respect for propriety hasn’t completely disappeared, but it has obviously declined. Furthermore, sex, entertainment and pleasure-is everywhere in our society. Temptation is much greater, so odds are, more people will be caught by it.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I don’t want to paint with a broad brush here, but the idea that ‘leaders’, elected or unelected, are somehow the cream of the crop is just fantasy. Sometimes it’s not that the cream that rises to the top, but that s**t floats.

[throwback]

I guess the thing I never realized is that Holder has run the FBI for 4 years. In four years, you can gather material on virtually every enemy that can possibly arise. They hold the strings on every player in this government except possibly the most squeaky clean. Regardless of what goes down, none of it will ever touch Obama. This is now Venezuela.

[Gaffer]

Democrats saved this juicy little story until after the election so that CNN could salivate over sex instead of asking questions about Benghazi that need to be asked.

As far as I’m concerned, the General (and the other one for that matter) can or could screw anyone they want with no more repercussions than Bill Clinton’s blow jobs, or the buggering Obama’s CINC directives now condones.

[brownsfan]

“Well, I think what we are witnessing is the simultaneous suicide ad murder of a once great nation by awful, awful people.

And there isn’t going to be any stopping it.”

Agreed. We had our chance, but it wasn’t “pure” enough. So, now we can only watch helplessly as the country is dismantled and remade to Marx’ liking.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The only way to fix this whole mess is to attack Iran.