The Shirtless FBI Agent From the Petraeus Story

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The Shirtless FBI Agent From the Petraeus Story

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What a great photo.

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It's by far my favorite part so far in this dumb story about what happens when the surveillance apparatus turns on itself.

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"one in which the original plan for this past weekend, as Barton Gellman of Time reported, was for David Petraeus to go on a birthday bike ride with Lance Armstrong."

Lance Armstrong? Ah, the plot thickens even more!
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I was hoping this stupid story wouldn't disgrace our fine forum.  >:(
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What I don't understand is how some of these guys could think that they had a high probability to get away with this stuff.  I mean who should be in a better position, to know how easy it is to surveil?
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This all seems to be to be working out very well for the Obama administration. The story of a secret CIA war in Libya gets turned into a story about an affair with the head of the CIA, a shirtless FBI agent, and a disgraced Tampa "socialite".  How perfect is that?

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MediumTex wrote: What a great photo.
Funny you should post this.  When it came out that the photo of the "shirtless FBI agent" was actually an obvious (and kinda funny) joke, I was immediately reminded of your Aldous Huxley quote.

It's funny how you can wind up with a better understanding of a story by actively ignoring the 24-hour news cycle and instead wait for the facts to be properly digested and laid out.  Otherwise you often get somebody else's slapdash narrative.  I think this is especially true in a story as weird and salacious as this whole mess!
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