Re: Petraeus

[David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>]

Oh, c'mon, we are security people!  :)

One of the big requirements of having any clearance at all, much less 
whatever DCI requires, is that you not be too easy a blackmail target. 
Secret extramarital affair?  Bad idea!

Also he used horribly bad opsec.  Pseudonymous gmail account used from 
official gear, rofls. 

He must have known, as he was having the fling, that if it came out, he 
would be toast.  Probably added to the thrill.  :)  And if he was passing 
her things in pillowtalk or otherwise that she had no need to know, as 
appears from some of the stories, that's really over the top.

I think we do, and should, hold a CIA director to a higher standard in 
some areas than we would hold some other gov't official.  And the same for 
other gov't officials, in their respective areas...

DC

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