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Biography on David Petraeus gets boost amid scandal
"All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, has moved up significantly on the Amazon top sellers list, making it to No. 159 by Monday afternoon ... Before the scandal broke, it was ranked a mere 76,792.”
Reply to @VintageFreak: Hi VF- May I suggest that if the rapper you cite were also head of the Central Intelligence Agency, or a close confidant, the story would at least be newsworthy? (and you are in the "off-topic" area) Fortunately, I've never really felt compelled to have everyone agree with all my posts. FYI: Petraeus was not an active General when the story broke, though the U.S. General in-line to become NATO Supreme Commander in Europe, John Allen, is also under FBI investigation in the matter. Regards, hank
Reply to @Sven: Interesting article. Thanks. Never intended this to be too serious - way OT. Saw some irony in the title ("All In: The Education of General David Petraeus") in that Petraeus now has a greater "education" regarding the personal, political and investigative forces that brought him down.
(I'm aware others - notably Jon Stewart - have read a more risque connotation into the title. That's not what I was referring to. Audience here at MFO is way too smart for that kinda crap.)
Wow. Is this all real? As for Petraeus, I don't care if he was having an affair. I just don't the head of the CIA to be so gd dumb as to get caught. Allen and 30K emails to this 4* groupie? He has to go. Mueller has to go and so does Holder. Oh, and WTF needs friends when you have the Kelly girls. They brought down some mighty powerful people.
Reply to @VintageFreak: FBI. Here's the sort of thing I get from a google: "Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller are facing mounting questions over why they neglected to tell the rest of the Obama administration about the investigation into David Petraeus until Election Day, with one top lawmaker now demanding an explanation.
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General has book. Has affair. This is !@#$%^&* ridiculous.
Honestly tell me how many people wanted to know HTF Petraeus led his life prior to this.
http://www.thesegreentimes.com/page.php?p=articles&id=16
(I'm aware others - notably Jon Stewart - have read a more risque connotation into the title. That's not what I was referring to. Audience here at MFO is way too smart for that kinda crap.)
Wow. Is this all real? As for Petraeus, I don't care if he was having an affair. I just don't the head of the CIA to be so gd dumb as to get caught. Allen and 30K emails to this 4* groupie? He has to go. Mueller has to go and so does Holder. Oh, and WTF needs friends when you have the Kelly girls. They brought down some mighty powerful people.
and so it goes,
rono
Hey rono, I missed it. What did Mueller do?
FBI.
Here's the sort of thing I get from a google:
"Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller are facing mounting questions over why they neglected to tell the rest of the Obama administration about the investigation into David Petraeus until Election Day, with one top lawmaker now demanding an explanation.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/14/holder-mueller-face-mounting-questions-on-why-petraeus-probe-kept-under-wraps/#ixzz2CmDEDc9H
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