Petraeus Is Brain Dead
CNN reports that CIA Director, David Petraeus has resigned. Petraeus said he is resigning because he had an extra-marital affair. Were that the real reason, I wouldn’t bother commenting, but the real reason is that he doesn’t know what he is doing.
First off, everyone is reporting that the FBI was investigating Petraeus, which isn’t exactly true. Because of the War on Terror™ the government is scanning e-mails from all over looking for certain patterns that someone thinks is sort of the kind of e-mails that ‘terrorists’ would send to each other. We now know that the search criteria also fit people having extra-marital affairs.
The head of America’s lead espionage agency doesn’t know how to establish a private communication system with his girlfriend that doesn’t attract attention. Think about that.
It is no surprise that when the FBI finds suspicious e-mails being exchanged between the Director of the CIA and another person, they are going to want to know what is going on. They are responsible for counter-espionage within the US.
Update: It has been suggested that the timing of the FBI investigation makes the Congressional insistence on an investigation into government leaking as the possible root cause. The assumed ‘other woman’ is tied to journalism, and her communications with government officials may have been targeted.
