CIA General Petraeus resigned after he admitted to an affair with a woman who was his biographer. The book she wrote about the General is titled, "All In". If I wrote that in a script I would immediately be laughed at for having an over active writers libido.
When I was in college, between North Texas University and the Oklahoma border was a motel off the freeway. It was a close enough drive for college kids to have a weekend fling, but far enough away that the likely hood of being seen by friends (who weren't there for the same purpose) was remote. The motel was named... "Planet Inn" with a graphic of Saturn on the sign. Further down the road there was another motel which offered female company for a price and it was named "Walkin' Stick Inn" with a cane on the sign. I don't believe these names are just random semantic coincidences any more than the liquor store in Beaver, Colorado named "Beaver Liquor".
Being sort of a wordsmith myself I have to admire that sort of plausible deny ability. When questioned about the "suggestibility" of the name it can be turned on the inquisitor for having such a dirty mind to even think such a thing. Perhaps I admire it from a purely passive/aggressive point of view.
But back to the retired general head of the CIA. I don't care that he had an affair, and I don't care who he had it with, extra-marital affairs are not unique among high ranking men. And I am not so sure that this particular dalliance was dangerous to national security. But here is why he had to resign.
If the head of the CIA is not good enough to keep an affair secret... how can he be good enough to keep all the national secrets entrusted to him.
In a week when Republicans are wondering where they went wrong hearing that the great GOP hope for 2016 left the current administration in disgrace is just another defeat.
As you were,
Jay
When I was in college, between North Texas University and the Oklahoma border was a motel off the freeway. It was a close enough drive for college kids to have a weekend fling, but far enough away that the likely hood of being seen by friends (who weren't there for the same purpose) was remote. The motel was named... "Planet Inn" with a graphic of Saturn on the sign. Further down the road there was another motel which offered female company for a price and it was named "Walkin' Stick Inn" with a cane on the sign. I don't believe these names are just random semantic coincidences any more than the liquor store in Beaver, Colorado named "Beaver Liquor".
Being sort of a wordsmith myself I have to admire that sort of plausible deny ability. When questioned about the "suggestibility" of the name it can be turned on the inquisitor for having such a dirty mind to even think such a thing. Perhaps I admire it from a purely passive/aggressive point of view.
But back to the retired general head of the CIA. I don't care that he had an affair, and I don't care who he had it with, extra-marital affairs are not unique among high ranking men. And I am not so sure that this particular dalliance was dangerous to national security. But here is why he had to resign.
If the head of the CIA is not good enough to keep an affair secret... how can he be good enough to keep all the national secrets entrusted to him.
In a week when Republicans are wondering where they went wrong hearing that the great GOP hope for 2016 left the current administration in disgrace is just another defeat.
As you were,
Jay
Just used your opening line of this blog for my status (with credit attributed of course). Thank you for a chuckle this morning.
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