According to the terms of our Official Junior Blogger’s
License, it is no part of our brief
to follow the ins and outs of venery on the American political scene, a
subject more than amply chronicled
in our own press. We
do on occasion, however (while taking a break from contemplating the infinite),
as a service to those cooped-up in CONUS,
cast a glance across the Atlantic, towards such weighty intellectual matters as Mitteleuropäische depth-psychology, or, mm, French political sex. It was thus that, anent the recent
revelations regarding the forced resignation of the CIA director,
The collapse of the dazzling career
of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was
having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him,
according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the
episode.
The recipient of the e-mails was so
frightened that she went to the FBI for protection and help tracking down the
sender, according to the officials. The FBI investigation traced the threats to
Paula Broadwell, a former military officer and a Petraeus biographer, and uncovered
explicit e-mails between Broadwell and Petraeus, the officials said.
When Petraeus’s name first
surfaced, FBI investigators were concerned that the CIA director’s personal
e-mail account had been hacked and security had been breached. But the sexual
nature of the e-mails led them to conclude that Petraeus and Broadwell were
engaged in an affair, the officials said.
The identity of the woman who
received the e-mails was not disclosed.
our eye was caught by the following astute reader’s comment:
This is
starting to resemble the Hollande-Royal-Trierweiler scandal in France …
But exactly!
Now, America does many things
very well; but in a couple of
areas, France does surpass us, principally in the matter of cheese and
political sex-scandals. And you
can read all about them in the following post, repeatedly updated as each
mouth-watering detail leaks out:
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We now return you to
your regularly scheduled essay.
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[Update 11 November 2012] Let the land of ooh-la-la lead you on a trip down memory lane:
[Further update] I really should just shut up and let it lie -- allow things to play out; but it is all really just too juicy. Extraordinary statements are reported and go unchallenged. Thus, this:
Broadwell, a self-described soccer
mom who lives with her family in a $900,000 house in Charlotte, N.C., is a
high-octane achiever, a triathlete with degrees from West Point and Harvard.
She holds the rank of major in the Army Reserve, and she said she held a
top-secret "sensitive compartmented information" clearance, one of the highest.
Now, SCI is indeed a big deal -- though somewhat less
than it might sound: it does not confer access to all comparments by any means (the way TS does open the door to
anything TS) -- you have to be read-in one by one, compartment by
jealously-guarded compartment, strictly on a time-limited need-to-know.
But anyhow, neither SCI, nor even TS, nor even straight-Secret is conferred
simply because you're "a soccer mom who lives with her family in a
$900,000 house ... a high-octane achiever, a triathlete with degrees from West
Point and Harvard." Such is the prose of post-bra-burning
femininism, which now oozes through the media like a tide of oobleck,
moistening the crevices of the credulous, but which cuts no ice at all with the
steely-gaze guys who grudgingly hand out
clearances. These things are not awarded like party-favors, just because
you're hot.
So, either she's lying, or there's a story here ...
[Metafurther update] (O I shouldn’t I shouldn’t
… but they’re like Starburst, I cannot resist… quoting some of the amusing
unselfcensored readers’ comments)
Men
sleep with women and vice versa. The FBI needs to be informed.
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Gives
whole new meaning to "embedded" journalist.
--
If you google Ms Bonkwell, you will
see images of her looking reasonably young and hot, and you will also see Mrs
Petraus looking rather old and frumpy. So it's easy to see what the
temptation might have been,
---
The root
of the problem is that Holly morphed into a hobbit.
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Many PhDs have studied the issue
and concluded that when one's spouse morphs into a hobbit, the non-hobbit
spouse tends to go looking for other non-hobbits. It's science.
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