If any enlisted man or low-ranking officer was guilty of the same offenses at Petraeus, he'd be rotting in a military prison now. As with Hillary's handling of classified emails, laws are evidently for little people, not for General Petraeus.
Having an Obama ally and criminal like Petraeus as SoS would probably be the only possible pick worse than Romney that Trump could make from his alleged short list. So I hope that this isn't true.
There’s a huge difference between providing TS-SCI information to a SECRET-cleared person, on a SECRET (closed) network and providing TS/SAP information to unlimited uncleared personnel via an internet server.
One is called a spillage, the other is called espionage.
One is a local command issue remediated by a reprimand and wiping some hard drives. The other is a national security breach which is permanent, unlimited and cannot be undone.
The biggest issues in security breaches is if classified information gets outside of a classified information system onto the internet. Think Wikileaks and Edward Snowden.
Petraeus was unduly punished for his spillage. At most he should have been reprimanded and completed his assignment. It should not have affected his military career. To bring it up when he has left the service, is in another position and then to drag it through the media before firing him was an over-the-top political attack. Like something out of the workings of the CCP. So what does that tell you? It tells me he didn’t kiss O’s ass or anyone else’s and made enemies fast in the administration. IOW, they chose him because they had the goods on him and thought they could use that for leverage to have him rubber stamp operations which were most likely against American interests. He refused so they publicly destroyed him. This is how the Left operates. They’ve been doing it for over 100 years.
Have you ever thought what got Petraeus in hot water in DC following his CIA appointment? Do you recall the talk of the military being used confiscate firearms prior to his appointment? Are you aware which branch of service and Command were most often identified to organize and lead gun confiscation or the fact that Petraeus was a former leader of that Command?
Ever considered why all the talk of gun confiscation abruptly stopped after Petraeus was appointed to head the CIA? Have you ever considered the possibility that Petraeus public humiliation and firing was him taking one for us?
As for Trump’s SoS consideration Trump, like any great leader, recognizes ability and success in leaders. He sees an opportunity to obtain the loyalty and dedication of a highly qualified, successful leader by rehabilitating him after an unjust and unwarranted public shaming.
As for Petraeus’ purported anti-gun stance I’m not worried for a few reasons. 1) He was vying for a leadership position in a Leftist government at the time. 2) Talk of gun confiscation ended after he was appointed to head the CIA. 3) Trump is pro-gun. 4) As SoS -who cares, he won’t set US policy.
Petraeus is a good American. He is loyal to the Constitution and the American people. He has placed both above his own interests whereupon the Left publicly destroyed his private and professional life in retaliation. Sounds qualified to me.