11/12/12
I was sorry to hear about the General’s affair, but knowing something about affairs of the heart I can understand some of what he was going through. His lady friend was too much for the guy to resist. She was a hot, forty year old woman, twenty years younger than he was, who devoted several years to gaining his confidence enough to write his biography. He’d been away from his wife and family for nearly 5 years commanding the Iraq and Afghanistan operations. The opportunity to have a sexual affair was there.
It appeared that his girlfriend got angry at another woman and sent a few threatening emails to her. Perhaps her jealousy, fear and anger prompted the threatening emails, but it was this stupid move on her part that caught the attention of the FBI. Why would an intelligent person who knows her emails are not private, send a threatening email to someone? And why would the General send his girlfriend solacious emails knowing his email acct was not private and could be viewed by the FBI and other security agencies?
The real irony in all of this is that the General was the one man in this country who had control of all the national military secrets, and accepted his new appointment to the CIA while he was having the affair. One would think he of all people could have kept his affair secret. The General faced bullets and fierce enemies his entire career, but a romantic seduction was the only thing that ever wounded him.
L.A. Steel
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