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FROM AP: 10 Things to Know for Today
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"You are talking about a massively invasive investigation that without any of their knowledge obtained their most intimate communications, all without evidence of any predicate crime," says Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now!
Sex brought him down. Not a stray bullet, not a landmine, not a grenade nor a terrorist.
While nothing is going to keep your online activities completely private -- especially if law enforcement has sufficient reason to search your online files -- here are some tips that are a big step in keeping your files, emails and chats as private as possible.
General Petraeus played a key role in decisions to carry out controversial drone strikes, including the attacks last year that killed two U.S. citizens. But no, it was adultery that brought down Petraeus.
Afghanistan has become a backdrop for a bad "B" movie, a tawdry farce played for cheap laughs. But the real story is not the farce but the ongoing military tragedy of Afghanistan.
There is nothing new about senior public officials or military officers having extra marital affairs. Here they join about half the American population who have also engaged in such behavior.
Who are these totally hot twins, and how can they get the highest ranking military and intelligence operatives in the world to drop everything to jump through hoops for them?
The David Petraeus scandal is a tragedy of personal and global importance. Who could have possibly predicted such an undoing? None other than fake pundit Martin Eisenstadt... five years ago, to be exact.
Talk shows hosts are much more interested in tempting their public with the red meat of what could be mistaken for a new hit cable TV series than focusing on the fact that General Petraeus' strategies in Iraq and Afghanistan were not, in the long term, a stunning success.
Obama has one move. He needs to call in Colin Powell to help him put out the escalating inferno and to restore both credibility and a sense of integrity to the military high command. Only Powell has both the status and the national-security gravitas to help Obama steady this dangerously rocking ship.
Whenever I was misbehaving as a young man, my late great Dad always threatened to send me away to military school. I had no idea that my father -- a Naval officer back in the day -- was thinking of ways for me to someday meet women.
In an unusual development, former CIA Director David Petraeus will be teaming up with former New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, and former Senator John Edwards to secretly fight crime as a group called The Insatiables.
Colloquial English language has no word for that -- no label we use to describe the man with whom a married woman cheats. Gigolo doesn't really cover it. Lover, perhaps, but no newspaper account would use it in a situation like this because their goal is to talk about sex without directly mentioning it. Paramour? That just sounds ridiculous.
Just because there are no e-mails that are flatly incriminating, does this means that secrets weren't passed? What do men do to impress the women with whom they're involved? They show off. Can we be absolutely sure that Petraeus didn't say things to impress his paramour?
How foolish it all looks. The sudden resignation. The photos of the "other woman," grinning as she shakes hands with the once-esteemed Four Star General. Senior members of congressional intelligence committees outraged that they weren't informed of an FBI investigation into the Director of the CIA.
With apologies to Jon Stewart who I am sure is all over this, I thought it was time to name the ever-expanding military sex scandal.
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