Article

2012-11-11 Home Front: WoT

Why Petraeus's Gmail Account Is A National Security Issue

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Sherry 2012-11-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Petraeus is not the kind of guy to say anything about his work on a personal email - he knows better than that. Likewise, there's no way I'd believe that the man would ever allow himself to be blackmailed. It's not happening. There is zero evidence that he did anything wrong - in terms of disclosing national secrets. Did he make some bad judgments about personal relationships - sure. But he could have been allowed to retire and keep his dignity.

This incident has the stench of political reprisals to it.

Posted by Raider 2012-11-11 00:36|| 2012-11-11 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 "Petraeus's personal Gmail"

You can tell a lot about a person just by email habits.

I cannot believe the director of the CIA has a personal Gmail account. I hope he at least enabled the 2 stage authentication.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-11-11 09:16|| 2012-11-11 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Kay Summersby could not be reached for comment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-11-11 09:54|| 2012-11-11 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll betcha Valentinian really regretted assassinating Aetius about the time the Visigoths showed up.

Posted by Fred 2012-11-11 10:13|| 2012-11-11 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Brilliant, Fred.

Posted by 11A5S 2012-11-11 12:52|| 2012-11-11 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 and pull out cellphone batteries during sensitive meetings, Ahem, I seem to remember reading something about re-energizing units by bathing the conference room with microwaves of the right frequency. 3DC?

Posted by Skidmark 2012-11-11 14:46|| 2012-11-11 14:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Valentian... the Jersey capo?

Posted by Shipman 2012-11-11 15:16|| 2012-11-11 15:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Gmail not a good idea especially with phishing attacks from China.

Posted by Large Darling of the Antelope3345 2012-11-11 19:07|| 2012-11-11 19:07|| Front Page Top

23:56 CrazyFool
23:51 KBK
23:42 SteveS
23:38 SteveS
23:20 KBK
23:19 RandomJD
22:52 tu3031
22:35 tu3031
22:33 tu3031
22:30 Secret Master
22:16 JosephMendiola
22:09 RandomJD
22:05 Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)
21:56 JosephMendiola
21:54 JosephMendiola
21:29 JosephMendiola
21:22 JosephMendiola
21:21 Zhang Fei
21:17 Zhang Fei
20:57 SteveS
20:11 SteveS
20:09 Pappy
20:08 Pappy
19:57 Nimble Spemble