Trust other people brehs. |OT|

[Kara]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/08/24/new-details-show-how-swinger-army-generals-double-life-cost-him-his-career/89220810/

New details show how 'swinger' Army general's double life cost him his career

WASHINGTON — Army Maj. Gen. David Haight, Army Ranger, decorated combat veteran and family man, held a key post in Europe this spring and a future with three, maybe four stars. He also led a double life: an 11-year affair and a “swinger lifestyle” of swapping sexual partners that put him at risk of blackmail and espionage, according to interviews and documents.  Jennifer Armstrong, 49, a government employee, said she and Haight had been involved in the torrid love affair that began more than 10 years ago in Baghdad and ended this spring.

. . .

Armstrong, who told USA TODAY in interviews that the relationship began with a flirty email and ended after assignations with multiple partners at swingers’ clubs, hotels and her home, says Haight had promised a future together. “I gave him the best years of my life,” she said.

. . .

How Haight, the married father of four adult children who has held a succession of increasingly influential jobs, maintained his intimate secret is unclear. His superiors promoted him three times since his affair with Armstrong began. Screeners of officials for security clearances — particularly those trusted with access to the nation’s most sensitive information like Haight — scrutinize financial and family stability to guard against vulnerability to bribes or blackmail.

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Haight is also a distant relation of an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Armstrong’s account of their affair is backed up by emails she said the two shared, indicating trysts involving other women, other couples and encounters with strangers at swingers’ clubs. However, Armstrong also misrepresented her educational background in the interview. She claimed to have a nursing degree from the University of California at San Diego. A check there revealed she did not, prompting Armstrong to claim a degree from California State University San Marcos. She does not. Records also show that she has twice declared bankruptcy, including last year in Virginia.

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Their relationship, however, wasn’t all about sex. Armstrong furnished a copy of a handwritten letter from Haight who encouraged her while she fought breast cancer. She also bears a tattoo with his name on it

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In 2015, anonymous tips about Haight’s extramarital affairs were brought to the Pentagon’s inspector general. Ultimately, the Army’s inspector general took the case. The Army ordered Haight to sever contact with Armstrong. Investigators interviewed her and others and substantiated allegations that he had "had an affair and lived a 'swinger lifestyle.' " Investigators also determined that he had spent nearly 24 hours on his government cellphone and sent more than 800 emails on his military computer to Armstrong.

Haight, the report noted, declined to testify or answer questions provided through his attorney.

[Madrun Badrun]

Bold the sex parts for me please.

[I'm a Puppy!]

So many dumb decisions
- Swinging for love
- Work for the government and have a mistress who also works for the government
- Not freak out when your mistress has a tattoo of your name
- Have a public job and be a sexual deviant...in public

I'd like to say I'm amazed someone so stupid could rise to a position of power. I'd like to say that....

Also, it's funny that he's related to a mormon apostle. Mormons are always all over when someone that's mormon is in the limelight (if I have to hear about lindsey sterling one more time...) but on this? everyone's completely mums.

[Phoenix Dark]

How Haight, the married father of four adult children who has held a succession of increasingly influential jobs, maintained his intimate secret is unclear. His superiors promoted him three times since his affair with Armstrong began. Screeners of officials for security clearances — particularly those trusted with access to the nation’s most sensitive information like Haight — scrutinize financial and family stability to guard against vulnerability to bribes or blackmail.

Pretty impressive

Time for a private sector job as a financial controller. 

[nudemacusers]

   



this stuff is pretty common in the military, the swinging part anyway. oh the stories I could tell..

[Vertigo]

Tbh being privy to all these state secrets and still doing this must have heightened the naughtiness for him tenfold. But this is why you only do swinging with your wife and an approved other female...

Or so I've heard... 

[Kara]

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Management thanks you for making a GAF thread more GAF-like.

[nudemacusers]

management would like to thank you as well for making this gaf-like thread even more gaf-like by attributing a common and ancient forum meme as something that originated on gaf. 

[Kara]

This whole story was textbook trust other people brehs, btw.

The American people trust their government to "keep them safe" (without ever really defining this) while the government surveils Food Not Bombs meetings instead of a starred general deliberately making himself a national security risk whose only defense is, "But muh boner though," because anti-war vegans are the real threat to America. (Wagering it's actually because LDS are perceived as vanilla ice cream when lol OK.)

The paramour trusts a dude (1) with security clearances who tells her that (2) he'll leave his wife, family, and otherwise check box life for her. Eventually. Promise. G friend I hope you've come to terms with sunk costs now.

The general trusts (1) himself to keep up this hopeless charade and (2) his paramour not to burn his ass unrecognizably when shit goes to hell.

The wife trusts that her husband is faithful, honest, and loves her and their multiple children. Awww.

[Mandark]

This year I had to explain to an African lady that she was being catfished by someone pretending to be a US Army general.

Not like just saying "I'm a general," but using the real name and pictures of an actual general, and pretending to be that guy and messaging her on Facebook.

[Madrun Badrun]

Petraeus just cant help himself.

[Syph]

Petraeus just cant help himself.

[Kara]

This year I had to explain to an African lady that she was being catfished by someone pretending to be a US Army general.

Not like just saying "I'm a general," but using the real name and pictures of an actual general, and pretending to be that guy and messaging her on Facebook.

Good work, M.

[WanderingWind]

I've followed this case as a matter of professional interest. It got me looking at it. The reason this is a big deal really hinges on the fact that swinging is outlawed by the UCMJ. If it wasn't, imagine Gen. Bigdick here just answering security screening questions honestly. If it wasn't against the UCMJ, he could be public about it, meaning there wouldn't be anything to potentially blackmail him about.

Just funny to me. Made me laugh that all these dollars and manhours were spent investigating basically this dude's proclivities toward watching his wife get nailed.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Cuckgate

[I'm a Puppy!]

Was it his wife or mistress he was watching getting nailed?

[bork]

His superiors promoted him three times since his affair with Armstrong began.

So that's how you get ahead in the military.

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"ahead"

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