As the so-called "Petraeus Affair" unfolds, the White House and all of its adherents, sycophants, and general hangers-on is beginning to look like a sloppy version of Animal House.
Little boys having affairs, lying about it, helping each other lie about significant national defense issues, possibly extorting each other to lie -- and so on. The key thing seemed to be, "Don't let the Republicans know."
That also meant, apparently, "Don't let Congress know." Senator Diane Feinstein, California, and head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she didn't know anything about it until Petraeus resigned, and somehow she's the only person remotely involved in this whole matter who seems even remotely credible. And the fact that Feinstein didn't know anything about this may be a felonious omission on the part of the FBI.
OMG, Eric Holder again... FBI is under his lackadaisical misdirection. Think he'll let anything leak? He's probably already shredded the documents. And Hillary Clinton, who heads up the State Department, apparently intends to remain overseas until the Comrade is impeached, though she won't help with the effort.
OK. So Petraus had an affair with an ambitious -- or "am-bitch-ous?" -- grad student, Paula Broadwell. She managed to get hold of his email password and apparently had access to highly sensitive documents. That she mentioned casually in a talk to students in Denver.
Couldn't find a better informed or more interested audience? And the real question, what else does she know? Perhaps she misplaced Ambassador Chris Stephens' pleas for help while engaged in a mischievous game of keep-away with the CIA director. Or someone.
Apparently Mrs. Broadwell (yeah, she's also married, I understand) became aware that Petraeus exchanged conversaton with another woman -- "a friend of the family," Jill Kelley, who is herelf happily married and also a friend to Petraeus' wife. Broadwell became enraged, or went ballistic for some reason -- like something out of Fatal Attraction -- and started sending threats to Mrs. Kelley. Mrs. Broadwell appears to be a bit neurotic.
Mrs. Kelley called the FBI about it. And the FBI investigated.
We can only wonder about the nature of the threats if Mrs. Kelley felt compelled to contact the FBI. Did Mrs. Broadwell promise to blow up the Statue of Liberty or something? We can only guess.
And the most recent revelation is that the FBI agent Mrs. Kelley spoke to had been sending her photos of himself -- bare-chested. Never got over the Anthony's Weiner incident? Late-breaking news, he's been taken off the case.
What the hell is going on in Washington?
These people don't seem to have matured beyond the mental age of 14 or so. When are they going to start squirting Jello out of their cheeks at each other? Probably at the congressional hearings next week. Ha ha. What a hoot. I feel so much safer knowing these people are so close to nuclear weapons.
And the fact remains that Ambassador Chris Stevens, Glenn Doughtery, Sean Smith, and Ty Woods are still dead due to some kind of incompetence. Well, make that OBVIOUS incompetence at the top levels of American government.
Everyone preoccupied with "If you show me yours, I'll show you mine"? So much more fun than protecting the nation from attack.
I want my tax money back. I wouldn't pay any of these people to rake my lawn. God only knows what kind of a mess they'd make of that.
In 8th grade I was introduced to the French Revolution, the result of really over-the-top corruption and misconduct of all kinds by the powers-that-be in France at the time. My teacher said one sign of a government ripe for collapse is "intrigues at court." Kinda scary, huh? Nothing from this regime but intrigue, scandal, lies, back-door dealing, corruption, lies, scandal...
By the way, a whole bunch of people in about a dozen states are petitioning for secession.
At least they may provide us with some place to go.
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