The Sins Of General David Petraeus

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A little bit more on this TJ. I've been through the polygraphs they give for high level clearances, and the issue isn't that you can't have had an affair, used drugs, had gay relationships or any other "problem" - it's whether the situation exists that you can be blackmailed with it. When Patraeus took over the CIA he would have needed to be re-polygraphed, and would have been asked questions that would have revealed the affair. So the question is why this didn't raise the issue at the time - or perhaps it did. Did he lie about it, or was this step skipped in his hiring, or did he reveal it and it's just now being used. I'm interested to see the answers to those questions as they are learned.

You say this like the general public is going to have access to his polygraphs... Somehow, I don't think the CIA would allow that to happen. At least not for the requisite, what is it, 50 years? By which time, I'll be 81 and won't give a flying fuck.

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.... the issue isn't that you can't have had an affair, used drugs, had gay relationships or any other "problem" - it's whether the situation exists that you can be blackmailed with it. ....

So why did this racist little sissy stay in office for so long ?

I feel horribly stupid... But who is that? Hoover? I majored in history, but I never took the time to match faces with the storyline