http://www.chron.com/news/politics/...ted-for-emails-to-Petraeus-friend-4031252.php story getting better. white women are such whores.
this is very funny: http://gawker.com/5960129/according..._source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
The only part of this story remotely interesting to me concerns the FBI's ability to easily read your personal email.
Seriously, this is the biggest story here and is truly alarming. The FBI think someone is trying to hack the general's PERSONAL EMAIL. Not his state email, his personal account. What even tipped them off that this was happening? Were they already monitoring his account? They then got in to his email and read it instead of calling him to tell him to change his password? This is alarming.
Which no one questions. Which we wouldn't know about if they didn't find anything. Also, that someone like Petraeus would be so stupid as to engage in this behavior and leave an email trail.
Mathloom/justtxyank: Petreaus (sp?) deserves the trouble, not because of the affair, but because he kept it secret. He has a very, very important job - one where blackmail-able secrets are not funny. Per the 1986 electronic communications privacy act, anything over 6 months old on a server can be delivered via a subpoena from a federal prosecutor (not a judge). So anyone with IMAP is essentially wide-open. More to the point, here is a textbook example of abuse - for anyone who cares to actually look at this larger issue. Kelley's "threatening" emails were hardly worthy of FBI investigation per the articles I've read and it's likely it only got the FBI's interest because the agent in question was romantically linked to her (too?). He sent her shirtless pics of himself and was subsequently removed, but only after he used the FBI's authority to raid Petreaus' email horde.
I don't care about Petraeus being in trouble, what I care about is what entitled the FBI to go into his email in the first place. It just seems awfully easy. Too easy.
Completely agree. There have been efforts to fix the 1986 law repeatedly. They have not been sucessful. I wonder why...
Each administration wants it to be easier to get information on the citizens and harder for the citizens to get information on the government. The day will come where America will wake up and say "Hey, you can't do that!" And the response will be "Um, yes we can. And you called it patriotism and rallied to our cause while we passed the pieces of legislation that made it possible."
This is troubling. Otherwise good riddance for a neo-con war propagandist who was constantly pushing Obama for bigger involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. On the otherhand, it would seem reasonable for the head of the CIA to have waived such privacy. WRT to the woman who worked in counterterrosim at one time and I believe had some higher level security clearance in the past, it is more troubling. The real issue is that the third woman who started the ball rolling apparenlty just informally told an FBI agent friend of her concern and he started the hacking into the email of Petreus's squeeze.
My understanding 1) Petraeus was not the subject of any investigation 2) No formal case was opened at the FBI 3) The FBI got into his personal email and provided that information other other people Seems way too easy. If Petraeus waived his privacy that's one thing, but I've not heard it. Just seems way too simple to me. Can anyone with a friend in the FBI just pull personal stuff on a political opponent with no repercussions?
My understanding is that the FBI agent investigated Broadwell's email, and that's how he discovered she was having an affair. Then he went down the rabbit hole and Petraeus turned up (remember, they weren't even exchanging direct emails...they had a dropbox exchange of some sort set up). The part that is quite fishy is how this information got to the House majority whip, but never to the appropriate House/Senate committees, and never to the president.
It is ridiculous he got fired. If he can do his job who cares how many chicks on the side he has. Look at tiger after the chicks left so did his game.
