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In reply to the discussion: Poll: The Petraeus Affair Should Be a Call for Executive Branch Housecleaning. [View all]Romulox
(25,960 posts)11. Why oh why can't the country's TOP SPY have his privacy?
Are you serious?
"If you are ok with living in an...authoritarian surveillance society"
Do you know what the "Central Intelligence Agency" ("CIA" is?
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Poll: The Petraeus Affair Should Be a Call for Executive Branch Housecleaning. [View all]
MineralMan
Nov 2012
OP
The head of the CIA probably doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the conduct of his
Romulox
Nov 2012
#8
The problem you seem to be having here is that you're simply making up your own facts.
Romulox
Nov 2012
#30
Apparently, Broadwell admitted to taking the classified documents and allowed the search/seizure.
Uncle Joe
Nov 2012
#14
She was "embedded" with the military. She obviously doesn't have a reasonable expectation of
Romulox
Nov 2012
#15
I don't know but warrants aren't required if you admit guilt and voluntarily allow a search.
Uncle Joe
Nov 2012
#23
If you or I voluntarily gave a stack of standard Post Office delivered mail that we received to
Uncle Joe
Nov 2012
#33
CAPS are not a SUBSTITUTE for READING THE FACTS of the CASE. The ACTUAL FACTS. Not the ones
Romulox
Nov 2012
#31
Petraeus was appointed as CIA director by Barack Obama. He isn't a "Bush holdover", any more than
Romulox
Nov 2012
#7
He is a Bush Neo-Con nonetheless, and probably was the DNI's pick for the job, not Obama's.
Coyotl
Nov 2012
#42
Um...I'd want a housecleaning even if this story never saw the light of day...
Blue_Tires
Nov 2012
#21