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2012-06-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2012-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Reporter canoodled with the source, eh?

Nothing new there. CNN was blowing Saadam pretty much forever.

Hey, is this Coach McGurk from "Home Movies"?

Posted by SteveS 2012-06-08 00:18|| 2012-06-08 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Images of the actual e-mail messages available at http://cryptome.org/2012/06/mcgurk-chon/mcgurk-chon.htm

I have no real problem with a horndog Alpha male being posted to a shithole like Iraq - maybe a jerk is exactly what you need in dealing with an entire nation of jerks.

The questions are:

1. Can he recover his gravitas after his awkward missives have been publicized?

2. Dose he have the emotional maturity to subordinate his own demon urges to the needs of his diplomatic mission?

3. Did he display an outright pattern of dishonesty in his prior official roles?

This guy was appointed to the National Security Council by George W. - so he appears to be a professional bureaucrat, not a completely political hack.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2012-06-08 01:07|| 2012-06-08 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 So that's what passes for romance today? Need to beef up the entry exam.

Posted by Perfesser 2012-06-08 05:45|| 2012-06-08 05:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like what the Brits call a prat.

Posted by phil_b 2012-06-08 08:22|| 2012-06-08 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 One wonders who leaked the e-mails and why. That's at least as important as that this guy resembles POTUS 1992-2000.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-06-08 08:31|| 2012-06-08 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 McGurk the jerk-off.

Posted by OmuluqueHapsburg5085 2012-06-08 11:27|| 2012-06-08 11:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The explicit details contained in the missives indicate that McGurk, who was married at the time, dangled unprecedented access and information before Chon in return for a series of increasingly intimate sexual encounters.

And that's the real issue here, IMO. Anyone willing to do such a thing needs to be kept far away from sensitive information and from access to other sources.

Posted by lotp 2012-06-08 13:40|| 2012-06-08 13:40|| Front Page Top

#8 An undercover assignment?

Posted by mojo 2012-06-08 16:37|| 2012-06-08 16:37|| Front Page Top

#9 dangled unprecedented access and information before Chon in return for a series of increasingly intimate sexual encounters

LOL :) Has the makings of a racy novel.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-06-08 17:00|| 2012-06-08 17:00|| Front Page Top

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