So Gen, David Petraeus, ex-CIA chief, was screwing around with his biographer Paula Broadwell, was was sending mildly harassing e-mails to “socialite” Jill Kelley, who was sexting with another four-star general. Kelley got mad about the e-mails to her and called in an FBI friend to investigate. Result: instant scandal. Glenn Greenwald’s perspective on this circle jerk:
…So not only did the FBI – again, all without any real evidence of a crime – trace the locations and identity of Broadwell and Petreaus, and read through Broadwell’s emails (and possibly Petraeus’), but they also got their hands on and read through 20,000-30,000 pages of emails between Gen. Allen and Kelley.
This is a surveillance state run amok. It also highlights how any remnants of internet anonymity have been all but obliterated by the union between the state and technology companies..
The rich are different than the rest of us. Let’s not be naive, heh Glenn. This has nothing to do with the “surveillance state run amok.” That’s a right wing talking point adopted by the Left because they think they’re “sticking it to the man” by saying it. In “polite circles” everybody knows everybody. (The “Swells” (1%) doesn’t include all that many people.) They use those connections to fuck with each other all the time. In this case their catty behavior took a very bad turn and ended up burning a couple of generals to the ground. Which worked out very nicely for the Left because Petraeus was tuning the CIA, an intelligence gathering organization, into a para-military assassination bureau and needed to go anyway.
Surveillance state! Whatever do you mean?