Aug 11, 2022
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In the retired general's case, the FBI executed a search warrant at his home and seized notebooks allegedly containing classified material.
Case law as demonstrated in a similar previous matter.
Allison and Jamie discuss CUNY students being violently arrested while protesting David Petraeus, Greece protesting after a "Neo-Nazi" killing, the media's confusion over Iran's historical rhetoric on the nuclear bomb, and Chuck Todd's befuddlement over what the job of the media is, and some good news about JP Morgan paying $700 million for the London Whale incident.
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We have unwittingly constructed a legal and technological architecture that brings point-and-click simplicity to the politics of personal destruction. The Petraeus affair has, for a moment, exposed that invisible scaffolding ‑ and provided a rare opportunity to revisit outdated laws and reconsider the expanded surveillance powers doled out over the past panicked decade.
Collatoral damage of our surveillance state | The Great Debate
Something has not been sitting right with me about the Patraeus thing, and it has nothing to do with the actual story itself. Finally I found some sort of "journalism" that taps into my gut.
"But while the media tell a familiar narrative of misjudgment and temptation, to me this story is about the terrifying power of the Patriot Act, married to the terrifying power of the resurrected Espionage Act -- and combined with a lethal admixture of our nation's Puritanism, prurience about and ignorance regarding sexuality."
It should be noted it was not the Obama administration that signed into law the Patriot Act, it was the Bush Administration. Further more, it was under the Bush administration that the "Espionage act" was pulled out of the vaults to be used against suspected "spies." However, the Obama administration has used it far more often and probably will continue to do so over the next four years. I'm pointing this out just to clarify that one administration is not responsible for the possible "demise" of our nation and a loss of our freedoms, rather if that should happen it is due to a systematic decline and equal detriment from succeeding administrations, a truth few people are willing to fully understand. More importantly than any of this, rather than looking so high up to these so called "leaders" to blame, hold accountability toward, or find hope in...we should be paying better attention to things closer to home if we are to find a better future.
Other Scandals Revealed by The New York Times’ Ethicist Chuck Klosterman
Shortly after General Patraeus resigned as the head of the CIA last week, an advice column from July resurfaced on social media. In it, Chuck Klosterman (NYT ethicist) offers advice to a person who appears to be Paula Broadwell’s husband concerning the affair between Broadwell’s wife and General Patraeus. This theory was later proven false but not before Chuck Klosterman published a series of other questions he received anonymously that (in light of this scandal) may shed light on future scandals: What Goes Around Comes Around My wife is having an affair with a very public, very symbolic person in government. By symbolic, I mean he was the first something to be elected something. I can’t give too many details for fear I might reveal who I am, suffice it to say that I have clocked many hours aiding this man’s work by speaking on his behalf and on behalf of a large political group to which we both belong. Can’t say which one, but it’s big. And popular. It wins many popular things. If you asked random people on the street what they thought of this guy, a little more than half, I’d say 53% would say they liked him. Here’s the rub, not only do I not wish to ruin my wife’s reputation but I should also admit here that I have not had the greatest track record when it comes to fidelity. I held the same position that my wife’s lover held once, and after much denial of what transpired with a younger woman, I ended up paying a great price. So my question for you is this: Should I reveal what’s going on? It might ruin the chance to fix the deficit- Whoops! I mean fix the many problems in America. NAME WITHHELD My Husband, the Embezzler. I don’t want to give too many details, but my husband is the current CEO of a major American corporation that most around the world are familiar with. The name of the corporation has something to do with fruit. But they don’t make fruit. They make...technology. Anyway, my husband, who most do not hold in the same esteem as the man he replaced, recently admitted he’s been embezzling money from this corporation. “Who’s gonna know!” he said to me, “the company made so much on [the last product], no one will ever know it’s gone! And if we need to make the money back, I’ll just develop a smaller version of [the product] that does exactly the same thing [the older product] did!” Should I tell someone what he’s doing? I fear the company will lose its ability to deliver new, updated versions of the exact same product every year should I expose him. NAME WITHHELD Seeing Red My husband is the founder and CEO of a certain entertainment company that made it simpler for people to rent and watch movies. Without giving anything away, I’ll tell you that he got in some trouble last year for trying to change the business model of the company. Recently I found out that not only has he been heading up a prescription drug ring for the members of the company’s board, he’s also never seen Fried Green Tomatoes! On our first date I brought it up, and he said “Oh, I love that movie!” but now I see he was just trying to get in my pants! The nerve! He should not be in charge of the way people see movies when he hasn’t seen one of the best. I’m torn. Torn like a faulty red envelope that are frequently associated with this service he provides. Should I tell the world he’s a fraud? Or should I keep it a secret? NAME WITHHELD What to Expect When You’re Not the Father My wife recently took over as the CEO of a major search engine site. I don’t want to give away the name for fear she’ll get in trouble. Here’s a hint: the company she left rhymes with “frugal” as in what I’ll have to be if she ever kicks me to the curb, and the company she now runs is something you might say if you were really excited about something in the 1890s. But I’m not excited. Here’s why: she was pregnant at the time of her switch, but the child is not mine. It belongs to a certain news anchor who left MSNBC awhile back. No names, but he used to talk about sports but then switched to reading James Thurber on television. Don’t want to give too much away but his name rhymes with “Doberman.” What do I do? Tell the world the first pregnant CEO of a Fortune 500 company got knocked up by someone who was not her husband? Or just keep it to myself? NAME WITHHELD An Inconvenient Truth My ex-husband, Al Gore, was born a woman. I don’t have a question. Just wanted you to know, Chuck! Print it if you want! Tipper
Accountability
This week the hearings to investigate the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi began, an attack that is now understood to have been committed by Al-Qaeda linked militants. The upset of Senators, Congressmen, and the American people over Benghazi is understandable due to the confusion, misinformation, and muddling of the record over this event made even more serious with the loss of an exceptional ambassador. The actions of our government, and that includes all branches and departments, are accountable to the people; that is what democracy is. And there is a time and a place to review the Benghazi attacks and all of the people involved. However, we have an even more impending crisis that threatens to upend our nation: The Fiscal Cliff.
We have just 43 days until the combination of the Bush tax cuts expiring causes a sudden tax increase, $1.2 trillion of spending cuts called the sequester kick in slashing key programs, unless we put a long term budget plan in place. Even more troubling, Republicans seem unwilling to budge on raising any revenue and Democrats seem unwilling to budge on extending the Bush tax cuts for everyone over $250,000. While I truly believe that our leaders will tune into their inner purple gene that we all have in our DNA, we can't afford to keep up this political game of chicken. This isn't a Republican or Democrat problem, this is an American problem and we need to come together and fix it before it's too late. No more kicking the can down the road, no more focusing on distractions such as the Patraeus scandal, or the Benghazi hearings, both of which are important but can stand to wait until after we solve the most important problem we face.
Patraeus so Brezhnev
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