Business Insider’s CEO, Henry Blodget, Summed the Petraeus-Broadwell-Allen-Kelley Matter in a Humorous Way — which Illuminates the Unlikely “Booby” Traps that Life Sometimes “Lays” Us

© 2012 Peter Free

 

13 November 2012

 

 

Citation — to Henry Blodget’s admirable summation of the (apparently overblown) nonsense currently underway

 

Henry Blodget, You're Not Going To Believe The Latest Developments In The Petraeus Sex Scandal, Business Inisder (13 November 2012)

 

 

Here’s a sample

 

From the piece:

 

Paula Broadwell, General Petraeus's mistress, lost her mind and sent anonymous harassing emails to this woman.

 

Kelley got freaked out by the harassing emails and called the FBI, thus triggering the investigation that, so far, has sucked in the head of the CIA, a top general, and an FBI agent.

 

The FBI agent assigned to investigate the case lost his mind and emailed "shirtless photos" to the woman.

 

Another top US general, John Allen, lost his mind and sent 20,000-30,000 inappropriate emails to the same woman.

 

© 2012 Henry Blodget, You're Not Going To Believe The Latest Developments In The Petraeus Sex Scandal, Business Inisder (13 November 2012)

 

 

The moral? — Our electronic lives are too vulnerable to snoopers and Life sometimes "booby" traps us, no matter how powerful we think we are

 

As it (apparently) stands thus far, the alleged leaking of classified information from General Petraeus to Mrs. Broadwell does not seem to exceed routinely-made similar disclosures by thousands of other important people to their often (apparently) superficially vetted spouses.

 

If we trust important people’s judgment in whom they marry, why not trust their judgment in whom they mistress with?

 

The only big deal here (insofar as we yet know) is that someone (most probably in or connected to the FBI) wanted to embarrass either:

 

(a) one of the principals under investigation

 

or

 

(b) the people whom the principals are connected to.

 

Meanwhile, America’s insatiable and prudishly camouflaged concern with all things sexual is on display — in what seems to be a story about powerful men’s need for adulation from female “honeys,” who do not know these men’s foibles as well as their wives do.

 

Nothing new or surprising in this manifestation of Vanity’s Tumescent Peccadillo.