Media Bias

While the media slobbers violently all over the Patraeus/Allen scandal, here's three questions to take into your Wednesday:
1) Why were the names Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley ever made public in the first place? These women are not guilty of a crime. The Grand Jury system exists (partially) to protect the anonymity of those loosely involved with a potential crime but should they be cleared of wrong-doing, their anonymity is supposed to remain intact. There are media vans parked 24/7 outside Paula Broadwell's house for no reason whatsoever.

2) And while the anonymity of these two women has ceased to exist (with no explanation as to why their names were released), the FBI agent/friend who sent Jill Kelley a shirtless photo of himself and apparently started this whole brushfire remains anonymous. Why?

3) While the media gushes constantly in our faces about the scandal, asking how it effects Benghazi, how it effects Obama's agenda, how it effects the counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan...you have assuredly not heard from anyone that the incoming CEO of Lockheed-Martin (the largest defense contractor in the world) had to resign this past week due to an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.
Long-time readers know I have nothing but bad things to say about Lockheed-Martin. That their internal ethics investigation found evidence of unethical behavior from their top executive...causes me exactly 0.0001 seconds of surprise. But the question I have is why does no one seem to care about this? People might say "well Patraeus/Allen is a public servant and he is privy to secure, classified information that he might have leaked." You don't think the CEO of the largest defense contractor wasn't also privy to secure, classified information? Ethical lapses of judgement can lose you your clearance, believe me, as someone with security clearance, I would know. And just as Patraeus/Allen is perhaps accountable to all of us as a civil servant in our military, isn't the CEO of a company that gets TRILLION DOLLAR contracts (entirely tax payer funded) equally accountable to Americans? Yet we ignore this private sector scandal and focus on the one involving military men.


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