McGurn: Sex, Lies and Gmail
Did David Petraeus's personal troubles influence what he said to Congress about Benghazi?
First, the idea that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency is a victim of America's puritanical mores.
Second, the idea that, whatever the legal fine points, an FBI investigation involving a mistress accessing an email of a CIA director does not become a de facto investigation of the director.
Third, the idea that a CIA director can have a private email account, wholly personal and separate from his job.
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David Petraeus
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extramarital affairs are human tragedies. That would be true even if
this one involved a factory worker and secretary cheating, not two
high-profile, high-achieving West Point graduates. The difference is
that the pain and injustice are even more monstrous for the innocent
spouses and children here, because their private humiliation is playing
out across our front pages and television screens.
Saudi America
The U.S. will be the world's leading energy producer, if we allow it.
In its annual world energy outlook, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says the global energy map "is being redrawn by the resurgence in oil and gas production in the United States."
The U.S. will increase its production to about 23 million barrels a day in 10 years from about 18 million barrels a day now, the IEA predicts. That's more optimistic than current U.S. government estimates and a change from a year ago when the IEA said Russia and the Saudis would vie for number one.
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Oil Refinery in Detroit
As readers of these pages know, the key
to this U.S. energy boom has been technological innovation and
risk-taking funded by private capital. Specifically, the private oil and
gas industry pioneered the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing (or fracking) to tap unconventional deposits such as shale
that once were technologically out of reach. It also wouldn't have
happened if the industry wasn't able to drill on private land, free from
federal regulation.FBI Agent in Petraeus Case Under Scrutiny
By DEVLIN BARRETT, EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN
WASHINGTON—A federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors' concerns that he was personally involved in the case, according to officials familiar with the probe.
After the discovery of allegedly
inappropriate e-mails between Marine Gen. John Allen and a Tampa woman,
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta asked the Senate to put on hold the
confirmation of the top commander in Afghanistan. Photo: Getty Images.
Email Location Data Led FBI to Uncover Top Spy’s Affair
By Kim Zetter
U.S.
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command,
presides over a re-enlistment and awards ceremony while visiting
Soldiers of Task Force Mountain Warrior. Photo: U.S. Army Spc. Albert L. Kelley, 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
But who would have thought the nation’s top spy chief would be undone so easily by digital footprints left behind in e-mail?
In the irony of ironies, the distinguished career of CIA Director and former Afghanistan war commander David Petraeus appears to have come unhinged after authorities traced the location of the sender of threatening e-mails that were written from an anonymous e-mail account and sent to a woman in Florida.
Post-Petraeus CIA Should Kill Less and Spy More, Former Chief Says
By Noah Shachtman
Former
CIA director David Petraeus — along with Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Defense
Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess — take their seats
in a January hearing on Capitol Hill. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Petraeus Scandal Engulfs Afghanistan War Chief
By David Axe and Noah Shachtman
Gen. John Allen in Afghanistan last December. Photo: NATO ISAF
The sex scandal that brought down former Army general and CIA Director David Petraeus has expanded to engulf another senior official: Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Allen, who is married, allegedly exchanged what’s being described as “inappropriate communication” with Jill Kelley, the 37-year-old Tampa socialite who claims she received threatening emails from Petraeus’ mistress (and biographer) Paula Broadwell. Kelley reportedly approached the FBI with the alleged threats, kicking off the investigation that ultimately uncovered Petraeus’ affair with Broadwell and prompted the retired four-star general to resign from the CIA last week.
Obamacare’s America: Post-Election Layoffs
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The People have spoken, and business has replied. Layoff announcements are mounting at an unprecedented rate in response to Obamacare since President Obama won his second term Tuesday night.
Petraeus Mistress: Benghazi Cover-up About Secret CIA Prison
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More Californians Will Flee State After Recent Tax Increases
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday said California would start a tax-increase wave across the nation, but recent history suggests California's tax increases will only accelerate the number of people who will leave California to other states with better tax climates.
Report: CIA's Benghazi Annex a Detention, Interrogation Site
Unnamed sources tell Fox News that the CIA Annex in Benghazi held three Libyan militia members for days and that retrieving these detainees may have been a motive for the September 11th attack on the nearby US consulate.
Witnesses: FBI Raids Home of Petraeus Mistress
FBI agents raided the Dilworth, North Carolina home of Paula Broadwell, the woman accused of having an affair with former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus Monday night. Petraeus resigned last Friday, citing his infidelity.
General investigated for emails to Petraeus friend
AP National Security Writer
PERTH, Australia
In a new twist to the Gen. David Petraeus sex scandal, the Pentagon said Tuesday that the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for alleged "inappropriate communications" with a woman who is said to have received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, the woman with whom Petraeus had an extramarital affair.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a written statement issued to reporters aboard his aircraft, en route from Honolulu to Perth, Australia, that the FBI referred the matter to the Pentagon on Sunday.
Panetta said that he ordered a Pentagon investigation of Allen on Monday.
Scandal widens in probe of top US general's emails
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- Enlarge PhotoAssociated Press/Musadeq Sadeq, File - FILE - This July 22, 2012, file photo shows U.S. Gen. John Allen, top commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and U.S. forces in Afghanistan,
WASHINGTON (AP) — The sex scandal that led to CIA Director David Petraeus' downfall widened Tuesday with word the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is under investigation for thousands of alleged "inappropriate communications" with another woman involved in the case.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Will The Bottom Fall Out? 15 Signs That Layoffs And Job Losses Are Skyrocketing
By Michael
If
you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly
because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the
United States is about to start getting worse again. Over the past
several weeks, a substantial number of large corporations have announced
disappointing earnings for the third quarter. Many of those large
corporations are also loaded up with huge amounts of debt. So what is
the solution? Well, the favorite solution on Wall Street these days
seems to be to lay off workers. In fact, it is almost turning into a
feeding frenzy. Since September 1st, we have seen more job cuts
announced than during any other two month period since the start of
2010. These announcements represent future layoffs and job losses which
are not even showing up in the unemployment numbers yet. So needless
to say, things don't look very promising for the end of 2012 or for the
beginning of 2013. If this race to eliminate jobs becomes a stampede,
will we see the bottom fall out of the employment market?Somebody Should Start The 'Stuff Costs Too Much' Party
By Michael
Stuff
costs too much. Seriously. Every time I go to the grocery store these
days, I am absolutely horrified by the prices. I try not to buy
anything that is not on sale, but the problem is that I am discovering
that the new sale prices are the old regular prices. So now paying what
used to be "full price" is supposedly a "good deal". The other way
that they are trying to hide rising prices is by shrinking package
sizes. As if we wouldn't notice that a box of 21 garbage bags is now
being sold for the exact same price that a box of 25 garbage bags used
to be sold for. It is one of my pet peeves. I feel like I am in the
middle of some bizarre movie entitled "The Incredible Shrinking
Dollar". Sadly, I am far from alone. There are millions upon millions
of American families that are seeing their expenses continue to rise
even as their paychecks remain the same. But neither Barack Obama nor
Mitt Romney seems very concerned about inflation. In fact, the Federal
Reserve, QE3 and Ben Bernanke were not even mentioned in any of the
three presidential debates. So I think that somebody should start the
"Stuff Costs Too Much" Party. Inflation is a tax which is destroying
the value of each dollar that we hold a little bit more every single
day, and the American people deserve to know the truth about what is
going on.Share This Massive List Of Post-Election Firings And Layoffs With Everyone You Can
By Michael
The
victory by Barack Obama on election night has resulted in a huge wave
of firings and layoffs all over America. A large number of businesses
seem to have suddenly shifted into panic mode. The number of layoff
announcements that we have seen in the last 48 hours has been absolutely
shocking. So why is this happening? Well, the truth is that the
federal government is absolutely suffocating small businesses all over
America with rules, regulations and taxes. If you have never tried to
run a small business, then you have no idea how oppressive this system
actually is for people that are trying to run small businesses
successfully. It has steadily gotten worse over the years no matter who
has been in the White House and no matter who has controlled Congress.
So we shouldn't put 100% of the blame on Obama. Bush massively
expanded government and made things harder on small business people
too. But what many small business people were looking for on this
election day was just a little bit of help. Many were desperately
holding out hope that Obamacare would be repealed so that they would not
have to get rid of some of their employees. Many were hoping to get a
little bit of relief from the crippling regulations and taxes that are
absolutely crushing them. But now that Barack Obama has been given
another four years, they understand that there is no hope on the horizon
and that things are only going to get worse. So they are making the
hard decisions that they feel are necessary in order to survive in this
economic environment.The Politicians We Have Chosen Reflect Who We Are As A Nation
By Michael,
The
American people have spoken. It is estimated that approximately 6
billion dollars was spent on political campaigns in 2012, and we ended
up exactly in the same place that we were before. Barack Obama is still
in the White House, the Democrats still have solid control of the U.S.
Senate and the Republicans still have solid control of the U.S. House of
Representatives. Clearly, the American people want more of the same,
and that is really bad news. The path that we have been on will only
lead to unprecedented disaster, and now it is abundantly clear that
there are not going to be any solutions to our problems on the national
level. Not that things would be that much different if we reversed
things and gave Republicans control of the White House and the Senate
and we gave Democrats control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Over the past several decades, nothing has really seemed to get any
better no matter what faces we have sent to Washington. But this time
there is really a feeling of "finality" to things. The American people
have made their choices, and those choices are going to have
consequences. There is no turning back now. The politicians that we
have chosen reflect who we are as a nation. It is not just our leaders
that have turned their backs on the U.S. Constitution and on the
principles that this country was founded upon - the truth is that the
majority of the American people have rejected them. We have willingly
chosen our destiny, and there are no more excuses.
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