At 2 a.m. Colorado time, having watched a plethora of pundits opine on the Petraeus resignation and apparent imbroglio, I have a very bad feeling I assume I share with many, a residual prescience from the high-wire tension of the election.
What if Obama knew that the FBI was worried that Petraeus’s biographer-lover’s access of his e-mail had compromised national security OR WORSE, provided the missing link over Benghazi, and didn’t say a word?
What if our security is or was compromised, all merely to make love to an amanuensis, a scribe?
Does every man in a high position in our government have to dip his wick?
I’m wondering about the possibility of the outrageous having happened, i.e. fact always trumps fiction. But here’s a possible angle: how about the affair as cover up for a golden girl with a gilded finger, a political moll on a mission for the Republicans: to retrieve and pass on the CIA director’s e-mails about Benghazi to say Rove, Faux News, for a mean chunka change?
And just in time for some eleventh hour spin to throw the election for Romney?
I mean, isn’t this plausible, given the way the chips began to fall, GOP desperation, what we’ve seen as the Right’s penchant for subterfuge and dissembling… seriously!
I like my version. Perhaps it isn’t too late for NANOWRIMO with this plot, something like a salient one-word title Breached. Or Poached. Or Screwed.
Worse by far: Impeached.
I hear that Obama’s “people” didn’t tell him about the FBI investigation of the girlfriend during the campaign. Really?
We all know what a smart man Barack Obama is. I mean, really?
The latter is a far more concerning scenario. It does seem somewhat likely that someone had to take the fall for Benghazi; perhaps Petraeus’s head would have rolled if he hadn’t resigned.
Yes, having an affair can set up someone who knows the country’s every secret for blackmail. Watch the House of Representatives take this thing and try for a Hail Mary to undo everything Obama and his team have done.
I thought watching a little Faux News today and tonight wouldn’t hurt me, that I would glean just enough to see what the latest excuse for Romney losing the election is.
But perhaps the Conservative paranoia has the power to pour from the television like smoke and cunningly wrap itself around us.
We will see…signing off with all appendages crossed except for one: the good General’s cock of clay.
Loquaciously Yours 
Having and having had friends who worked both FBI and CIA, as well as Secret Service and State, I do think it’s possible Obama didn’t know about the investigation earlier. If he did, then he would have been a fool not to have dealt with it when he learned of the problem, and I don’t think he’d have jeopardized his possible re-election for a service officer who had an affair. Many in this Washington, D.C., area seem to think Petraeus is the scapegoat. I question his judgment, lack of integrity, and moral arrogance.
There are, however, so many questions this situation raises (what intelligence led the FBI to do the investigation is just one), especially the timing so soon after the election and the fact that Petraeus was due to give testimony to the Hill the day after the story broke. So far the papers here report that no compromise of security but who knows how this is ultimately to play out.
The conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this, as will the Republicans (these may be one and the same). As novel material, I think you could do wonders with it. Go for it, Jenne!
Hi Maureen– how fascinating to hear your take– I didn’t realize you’d found the piece– tonight on Fox their legal analyst whose name mercifully escapes me said, “The secrets just keep mounting and mounting and mounting…” I cracked up and wondered how far this will all go. I do not see Petraeus as a victim in any of this. I’m thinking of a plot…do you have any ideas, Maureen? Maybe we could collaborate! xxxj
Have you seen this? The innuendo is a bit much.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-25-2012/exclusive—push-up-contest-to-benefit-wounded-veterans