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In reply to the discussion: Petraeus and hypocrisy? If he was a commander during his affair and any troops under his command [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)50. That's the girlfriend shooting off her mouth--not him.
Look, he's a cad, no doubt, and his judgment sucks, and his wife should rake him over the coals and not "get mad, get everything," and it's good that he's outta there because his intemperance is demonstrative of his utter incompetence, but the paramour's big mouth proves nothing except that she has a big mouth.
I don't know what her clearance/access is--none of do, really; her situation is rather fuzzy. Is she a CIA asset? We don't know, really. It would not surprise me in the slightest were that the case.
At any rate, her loose lips in that article are HER problem, if the article is accurate. I haven't gone looking for the YOUTUBE performance.
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Petraeus and hypocrisy? If he was a commander during his affair and any troops under his command [View all]
jody
Nov 2012
OP
There may be cases where a separated military member has been recalled to duty to face court-martial
jody
Nov 2012
#8
He wasn't retired while he was having the affair. They've made spying on the American
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#18
Well he is retired, so I think that is why they refer to him as retired now. He was not
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#29
Would you have said that about any prosecutions when Clinton was Commander-in-Chief?
former9thward
Nov 2012
#13
Generals in the field are very different from the CIC. And thanks for the condescending
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#26
Please show where Petraeus "personally" punished a member of the military for adultery.
former9thward
Nov 2012
#54
It's called Civilian Control of the Military, and the President is not subject to the UCMJ.
MADem
Nov 2012
#30
The President isn't going to usurp the authority of a Service Chief or Secretary.
MADem
Nov 2012
#48
Yes. He was Commander in Chief. True not a commissioned officer but IMO morally bound by the same
jody
Nov 2012
#20
The question was whether or not Clinton had ever punished a member of the military
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#31
How often has any president done so for a low level member of the military who
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#47
I'll drink to that. Interesting that so many civilians in the military chain of command from E1 to
jody
Nov 2012
#43
The affair took place while he was a member of the military as far as we know. If so then
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#32
It must have been a very, very short affair if he is telling the truth about that. He left
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#57
He's a Republican so that wouldn't have bothered him! I hope this is a lesson about
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#14
He's a Bush guy. Bush was his hero. Everyone knew that which is why so many objected to
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#45