Petraeus Done

[dannubis]

*poof*

[Sava]

The more I read about Paula Broadwell, the more it seems like her career goal was to bang a general.

[Alexander's Horse]

they are called campaign wives or camp followers, Kabul was full of them

[-Jrabbit]

This was interesting...

Paula Broadwell’s big mistake

By Andrew Leonard

The funny thing is, Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus thought they knew what they were doing. They were careful, more careful than the average American fooling around outside the bounds of marriage tends to be. When Broadwell wanted to warn off the other woman she suspected of messing with her man, she set up an anonymous email account and only used it away from home, usually on the Wi-Fi networks of hotels she was staying in. Broadwell and Petraeus also thought they could avoid having their emails intercepted in transit by technically avoiding “sending” them at all. Instead, they saved their messages to each other as “drafts” in a Gmail account to which they both enjoyed access.

But if they thought they were being smart, they were wrong. Broadwell and Petraeus were undone, says ACLU privacy and technology expert Christopher Soghoian, by their “lack of knowledge of operational security” and “poor tradecraft.” “Draft” messages are stored in Gmail’s server cloud just like all other sent and received messages. And the FBI turned out to be more than capable of correlating the Internet Protocol addresses that identified the origin of Broadwell’s supposedly “anonymous” emails with hotel records that showed Broadwell as a guest at the same time the messages were sent.

If Broadwell had taken greater precautions, she might never have been caught. She could have covered her tracks with any one of myriad commercially available Virtual Private Network programs or, if she was looking for some heavy-duty protection, she could have downloaded the Tor Project’s anonymizing browser. We should all takes notes from her misfortune. For those of us who have been able to look beyond the shirtless-pic-sending FBI agents and Tampa socialite “honorary consuls” and overly flirtatious four-star generals, the obvious lesson to take away from this mess is that if we’re going to play hanky-panky with the director of the CIA, we’d better make sure we’re using the best privacy protection tools available.

Linky to full text.

[Alexander's Horse]

I could comment but I won't

[Sava]

they are called campaign wives or camp followers, Kabul was full of them

i want groupies!
why should a stupid general get some and not me?

[DinoDoc]

He's successful and you aren't.

[Sava]

He's successful and you aren't.

I'm working hard towards concluding my career with a sex scandal, losing my job in disgrace, etc... but that kind of success is hard work!

Plus, Petreaus' career in the military has only gotten him a one-way ticket to hell. So no thanks.

[DinoDoc]

Plus, Petreaus' career in the military has only gotten him a one-way ticket to hell. So no thanks.

I thought you wanted to get laid. Success gets you more opportunity for that than being Sava.

[Alexander's Horse]

If only Holly Patraeus had kept her gym membership up, occasionally worn some cosmetics, and invested in some clothes and shoes that didn't make her look like an old granny, all this might have been avoided. Pity.

[regexcellent]

When I want something to look anonymous I can always just route it through one of RIT's machines or tor it. Also for christ's sake GPG!

[Alexander's Horse]

I enjoy reading your stuff

[molly bloom]

I expect more of a person in charge of a nation's security apparatus than to act like a lovelorn schoolboy by falling for a honeypot and passing along classified information to someone we've learned maybe emotionally unstable.

Yeah yeah, blah blah. I'm sure no politics were involved in this AT ALL.

The way we were :

One missive in particular, penned at the height of the Trafalgar campaign, has been discovered for the first time, after prudish 19th-century editors had removed passages that were considered "too warm". In the letter, written while pursuing the French fleet in June 1805, Nelson tells Lady Hamilton, the wife of one of his closest friends, the high-ranking British diplomat Sir William Hamilton, that he would "with pleasure lay at your feet" when he returns from the campaign. He goes on to beg for "a sweet kiss" from her as "reward" for his "hard ***", before signing off with the line: "for Ever and Ever I am your faithful ever faithful and affectionate".

The letter, along with dozens of others addressed to Lady Hamilton, sheds new light on a love affair considered nothing short of scandalous in the early 19th century. In another unpublished letter, it is revealed for the first time that Nelson celebrated his victory at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 by throwing an impromptu birthday party for his absent mistress.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/horatio-nelsons-lost-love-letters-are-unearthed-6162846.html

Go Nelson !

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

[DinoDoc]

Yeah yeah, blah blah. I'm sure no politics were involved in this AT ALL.

In the timing of his resignation? Almost certainly. In the reason he had to go? Absolutely not. The type of behavior betrays a massive lack of judgement for someone trusted to guard the nation's secrets.