Discussion for article #231905
Conservatives shouldnât be mixing business with pleasure and act surprised when it comes back to haunt them. Aside from the obvious family values hypocrisy, in this case it was horrible national security. Sharing government secrets could have helped make his Surge strategy not work in two countries for all we know. I bet his emails to this woman alone gave up way too much info to anyone hacking around.
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Iâm all for âgiving him a passâ as recommended by the shameless war profiteer Diane âChicken Hawkâ Feinstein. But only if Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden are pardoned.
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Apparently too much blood drained from his brain down to the region of little David, leading him to do something incredibly stupid. Funny though, how the standard for prosecution changes when it is one of the elite insiders (who may also know where all of the Iraq War bodies are buried).
I always thought that the standard for prosecution was based on whether an actual crime was committed, not on who the alleged criminal might be. I guess that idea is foolish.
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Not clear on how a senator gets to decide that a crime doesnât need to be prosecuted because the criminal has âbeen through enough.â
Pretty sure thatâs what judges and juries are for.
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Sharing classified military information with oneâs mistress on an unsecured personal computer? And Dianne Feinstein thinks heâs âsuffered enoughâ? Wow, thatâs âNational Securityâ for ya!
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The Republicans have been complaining about Obama and Holder using prosecutorial discretion regarding issues like immigration. So shouldnât they be complaining that Petraeus is not being prosecuted?
This might be a good card for Obama to hold (and that might be the strategy). When they start complaining again about him breaking the law on immigration, Obama can fall back on not prosecuting Petraeus. The Republicans at that point would have to insist he prosecute Petraeus also, which they will NEVER do. Perfect display on how prosecutorial discretion is totally legal, and that the Republican accusations are BS.
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Obama will not make the decision. It will be made at Justice, as it should be. That said, you have to wonder where all the Republicans shouting, âRule of Law!â are on this issue.
If the info had been pulled from The Womanâs computer, rather than from Senate computers would it then have been just fine, according to our âesteemedâ Senator?
Yeah, this is the part thatâs catching in my craw a littleâŚand this was just a Natasha scenario, not even a matter of patriotic conscience.
This comment, however obliquely, raises the troubling question of formal relationship descriptions.
If weâre to see citations like âhis biographerâ rountinely employed in relation to whatever it was that Ms. Broadwell had going on with General Petraeus (and vice reverso), it wonât be long before what is generally accepted as meant by use of the term âbiographerâ will have spilled over into decidedly less objectively-reliable territory, causing periodic eruptions of titlations on The New York Times Best-Seller List for Non-Fiction Books, at least those purchased largely by think tanks and lobbying groups to accommodate the U.S. Tax Code and assorted laws and regulations aimed at the recording,reporting and use of political donations.
Iâm pretty sure that TPM isnât equipped to accommodate the ALL dimensions of GOP hypocrisy. So far, not even theoretical geometry has succeeded in describing even four of them.
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Pretty much what I was thinking earlier this morning. Not that I have an awful lot of sympathy for Manning or Snowden, but it is hardly fair to prosecute those guys, who were at least acting on principle, and then let Petraeus skate when he was acting out of self-interest.
And if Petraeus has suffered enough, doesnât that same thing apply even more to Manning and Snowden? They have also lost their jobs, and one is in a high security federal prison, and the other in exile in Russia.
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