(11-13-2012 08:16 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  We learn that:

Petraeus had an affair which may have affected his performance, and resulted in the release of classified materials.

Fed gov't response to Sandy is lacking, people suffering and dying.

Iran attacked US drone.

Significant layoffs coming and other negative consequences from Obamacare.

Glad the US news media is looking out for the good of the country.

(11-13-2012 09:53 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  

(11-13-2012 08:16 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  We learn that:

Petraeus had an affair which may have affected his performance, and resulted in the release of classified materials.

Fed gov't response to Sandy is lacking, people suffering and dying.

Iran attacked US drone.

Significant layoffs coming and other negative consequences from Obamacare.

Glad the US news media is looking out for the good of the country.

I think what concerns me more than Petraeus having an affair is the fact it was discovered by the FBI reading someone's private emails with no apparent legal justification for it.

(11-13-2012 09:55 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  

(11-13-2012 09:53 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  

(11-13-2012 08:16 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  We learn that:

Petraeus had an affair which may have affected his performance, and resulted in the release of classified materials.

Fed gov't response to Sandy is lacking, people suffering and dying.

Iran attacked US drone.

Significant layoffs coming and other negative consequences from Obamacare.

Glad the US news media is looking out for the good of the country.

I think what concerns me more than Petraeus having an affair is the fact it was discovered by the FBI reading someone's private emails with no apparent legal justification for it.

He probably paid cash at Starbucks, thereby landing himself on a terrorist watch list. There's your justification.

(11-13-2012 09:53 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  I think what concerns me more than Petraeus having an affair is the fact it was discovered by the FBI reading someone's private emails with no apparent legal justification for it.

(11-13-2012 09:55 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  

(11-13-2012 09:53 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  

(11-13-2012 08:16 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  We learn that:

Petraeus had an affair which may have affected his performance, and resulted in the release of classified materials.

Fed gov't response to Sandy is lacking, people suffering and dying.

Iran attacked US drone.

Significant layoffs coming and other negative consequences from Obamacare.

Glad the US news media is looking out for the good of the country.

I think what concerns me more than Petraeus having an affair is the fact it was discovered by the FBI reading someone's private emails with no apparent legal justification for it.

He probably paid cash at Starbucks, thereby landing himself on a terrorist watch list. There's your justification.

(11-13-2012 11:01 AM)mlb Wrote:  

(11-13-2012 09:53 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  I think what concerns me more than Petraeus having an affair is the fact it was discovered by the FBI reading someone's private emails with no apparent legal justification for it.

This... and it was a bipartisan law. Bush administration pushed it and the democrats supported it.

(11-13-2012 09:53 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  

(11-13-2012 08:16 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  We learn that:

Petraeus had an affair which may have affected his performance, and resulted in the release of classified materials.

Fed gov't response to Sandy is lacking, people suffering and dying.

Iran attacked US drone.

Significant layoffs coming and other negative consequences from Obamacare.

Glad the US news media is looking out for the good of the country.

I think what concerns me more than Petraeus having an affair is the fact it was discovered by the FBI reading someone's private emails with no apparent legal justification for it.

(11-13-2012 11:12 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Eric Cantor knew of the Petraeus affair two weeks before the election.

Any other pointless strawmen you want to prop up you sore losers?

Quote:As is now widely reported, the FBI investigation began when Jill Kelley - a Tampa socialite friendly with Petraeus (and apparently very friendly with Gen. John Allen, the four-star U.S. commander of the war in Afghanistan) - received a half-dozen or so anonymous emails that she found vaguely threatening. She then informed a friend of hers who was an FBI agent, and a major FBI investigation was then launched that set out to determine the identity of the anonymous emailer.

That is the first disturbing fact: it appears that the FBI not only devoted substantial resources, but also engaged in highly invasive surveillance, for no reason other than to do a personal favor for a friend of one of its agents, to find out who was very mildly harassing her by email. The emails Kelley received were, as the Daily Beast reports, quite banal and clearly not an event that warranted an FBI investigation:

Quote:What is most striking is how sweeping, probing and invasive the FBI's investigation then became, all without any evidence of any actual crime - or the need for any search warrant:

"Because the sender's account had been registered anonymously, investigators had to use forensic techniques - including a check of what other e-mail accounts had been accessed from the same computer address - to identify who was writing the e-mails.

"Eventually they identified Ms. Broadwell as a prime suspect and obtained access to her regular e-mail account. In its in-box, they discovered intimate and sexually explicit e-mails from another account that also was not immediately identifiable. Investigators eventually ascertained that it belonged to Mr. Petraeus and studied the possibility that someone had hacked into Mr. Petraeus's account or was posing as him to send the explicit messages."

Quote:This study and the accompanying ranking chart measure the extent of surveillance and privacy. They do not intend to comprehensively reflect the state of democracy or the full extent of legal or parliamentary health or dysfunction in these countries (though the two conditions are frequently linked). The aim of this study is to present an assessment of the extent of information disclosure, surveillance, data exploitation and the general state of information privacy.

(11-13-2012 09:53 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  I think what concerns me more than Petraeus having an affair is the fact it was discovered by the FBI reading someone's private emails with no apparent legal justification for it.

(11-13-2012 06:06 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  Well, wasn't the woman sending the emails from Petraeus's gmail account?