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Re: dsm tchr Abanerjee< Yes I see your point. See below...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-09/cia-director-petraeus-resigns-citing-extramarital-affair#p2
posted by
dsm_tchr
on November 11, 2012 at 10:17 AM
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Re: In law, does an affair...? Straightforward, I researched this question
Evidently not legal. But I did find the following.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-09/cia-director-petraeus-resigns-citing-extramarital-affair#p2
The sensitivity of an extramarital affair at the CIA stems from the potential for exposure to blackmail, according to one U.S. official, as well as the issue of a leader setting a bad example for subordinates. In Petraeus’s case, however, the affair did not jeopardize his high-level security clearances, because he already had passed the polygraph exam required for a Top Secret clearance as a senior military officer and didn’t need to retake it at the CIA, the official said.
posted by
dsm_tchr
on November 11, 2012 at 10:16 AM
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dsm tchr
The last word, and I liked it, was ... "Mr. President, I don't dance".That, and not he insignoficant love affair, must have been his undoing. The man who had been the American hero of the Iraq war, who paciified Americans, and became their love then, ironically, wa undone by love itself.
posted by
anib
on November 11, 2012 at 5:53 AM
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In law, does an affair qualify for termination of a CIA chief?
posted by
Straightforward
on November 11, 2012 at 12:27 AM
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posted by
WileyJohn
on November 10, 2012 at 3:56 PM
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Re: dsm tchr, Bill, thank you.
posted by
dsm_tchr
on November 10, 2012 at 12:50 PM
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Re:
adnor, as F.G. would say, "stupid is as stupid does".
posted by
dsm_tchr
on November 10, 2012 at 12:50 PM
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Re: I said to Wiley that it has the sniff of day old fish upon it....so it will
Kabu, unfortunately, I think you are right. Also, I think Pat B and FSI have stated an obvious conclusiion that I had overlooked.
posted by
dsm_tchr
on November 10, 2012 at 12:48 PM
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I wonder if there is more to it as well.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 10, 2012 at 11:33 AM
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What if it is what he says it is? Wouldn't that be a rare jewel of a story
in the world of conspiracy theory? If he'd quit without giving a reason, then we might have believed he was caught in an affair... we're so fickle. But still, we can't help thinking this can't be the whole story.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 10, 2012 at 3:26 AM
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dsm tchr
{I saw that headline. I wondered about it. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on November 10, 2012 at 2:47 AM
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Or all of the above. And just how dumb do they think we are anyway???
posted by
adnohr
on November 10, 2012 at 1:35 AM
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who will ever really know the truth...mayhaps it is a smattering of all of the above!
posted by
Annicita
on November 9, 2012 at 10:17 PM
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I said to Wiley that it has the sniff of day old fish upon it....so it will
be 50 years before anyone knows differently if there is any differently.
posted by
Kabu
on November 9, 2012 at 4:27 PM
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