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Another Perspective
Undercover Military Secrets Revealed
Paula and David, surveilled at a Motel 6.
Investigators looking into the scandal involving General David Petraeus and his comely biographer/mistress Paula Broadwell have found possible evidence of pillow talk revelations that could have adverse effects on the national security. An unedited transcript has fallen into my hands about one rendezvous at the Benghazi Motel 6.
Broadwell: Oh, David, sir, you can’t imagine how I tingle when you mention the big buildup of fighter jets outside Baghdad. No man has ever talked to me like that before!
Petraeus: I just tell it like it is, baby. Could you move your arm a little? I’m having trouble checking my Twitter account. I expect a message from the Pentagon soon about some troop movements on the Pakistan border. It could be important.
Broadwell: I’m sorry, sweetie. Um, is this something I should know for the book?
Petraeus: Nah, just a routine CIA thing, but I gotta keep up to speed on this damn stuff. You wanna break for dinner later? We can order in. You like pizza or Chinese?
Broadwell: Gosh, I’d love to, sir, but I want to finish that chapter we talked about last night. It drove me absolutely wild when you whispered what you told Leon Panetta.
Petraeus: Oh, you mean the business about moving a nuclear sub outside Libya?
Broadwell: You say it so casually, but a girl takes these things seriously…
Petraeus: I didn’t mean to lead you on. It sorta just slipped out. Hey, it was 0400 hours.
Broadwell: I know, honey — I mean, sir — but it turned me on anyway.
Petraeus: I should button my lip, I guess, but you’re not just any woman, ya know.
Broadwell (raises up on one elbow): Well, I should hope not! What time is it, by the way? I need to split before the cleaning woman gets here. I feel like I’ve seen her some place before. She could be wired.
Petraeus: Really? Geez, it never occurred to me. I was hoping you and I could spend the day together. I don’t need to be back at Langley until Tuesday.
Broadwell: Darn it, sir, darling, I just can’t spare the time now. My editor wants me to get this new chapter to him by tomorrow. But it’s terribly nice of you to give up your Sunday for little me. I can’t remember when I’ve had such a good time, sir.
Petraeus: Listen, Paula, I’m not in this just for the — you know, sex. I really like you.
About the Author
Gerald Nachman is a writer in San Francisco and most recently the author of Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan’s America (University of California Press).
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Joellen| 12.7.12 @ 7:00AM
This would be "funny" if there werent FOUR DEAD AMERICANS that resulted from these liasons and the inept Obama administration. Blood is dripping from Obama/Hillary, and our Media who refuses to investigate and report on this. I pray that Congress will tenaciously pursue this until these Americans and their families can rest in peace.
Frank Drackman| 12.7.12 @ 7:14AM
DCI takes his Gouma to a Motel 6 for a little of the old I&O(In & Out)??? Here is my "I'm SO Surprised!" Face, oh yeah, its AlGores Internets, you can't see...
Seriously, these Ex-Flag Officers are tighter with a buck than a Prom Queens Labii, There was this 3 Star Admiral I knew, and 3 Stars are the worst,, cause they almost made it to the big leagues, it's like those Career Triple A/Taxi Squad players. He'd spend 2 hrs Schlepping through sickcall/pharmacy line all for a weeks worth of Sudafed/tylenol/motrin/Robitussin. One cold winter morning I mentioned that I could just give him enough to last for the rest of his projected sucking the government teet, I mean life span, and he threatened to sick the retired NIS(no "C" yet)Officer behind him in line on me for diverting controlled substances.
"ITS FRIGGIN TYLENOL!!!!!!" I shrieked, because my Ensign bars were so new they were listed on the NOTAMS for Pensacola NAS.
Yeah, I was still just a Medical Student, thats right, a Medical Student treating a retired Admiral, its that "World Class" (that was before they started calling everything from hamburgers to lasers "World Class) Military Medical System...
Frank "3rd World Class" Drackman
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.7.12 @ 8:09AM
Clearly, Doctor, he wasn't hanging out each week because he was cheap, he would have accepted your offer if that was the case. He was hanging out in the line because he was lonely. It's a better than average chance that while clawing his way to those stars and transferring from one duty station to the next to enhance his professional chances, he burned enough bridges with colleagues that he had no friends left (once he lost the power associated with being an Admiral) when he retired. Waiting each week in that line is probably one of few chances he got to connect with that old life, and you were going to deny him the salutes he gets from the Marine guards at the gate every seven days with your offer.
Jacob McCandles| 12.7.12 @ 10:52AM
Ever been to Bethesda NH? So much brass there it makes the head spin.
ncatty| 12.7.12 @ 10:11AM
It does make you wonder what a triple A personality-type like Petraeus is doing with all of his spare time now. Yard work?
SUBVET| 12.7.12 @ 10:31AM
I think she was trimmed already.........
Frank Drackman| 12.7.12 @ 12:13PM
talk about a "Hot LZ"......
HAHA "I crack myself up"*
* only THE greatest movie in the History of Movies(Not Film) "TOP GUN"
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