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It's more emotional in the Philippines, says U.S pollster

A survey by U.S research firm Gallup ranks the Philippines the most emotional society in the world—not at all a surprise for a country where a senator ends his privilege speech in tears, another senator becomes a byword as much for hilarious pick-up lines as for her heated outbursts on the senate floor, and where everyone loves a good melodramatic teleserye.

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there must be a survey that shows the u.s. is more tabloid-leaning aka tsismoso.  look at what tend to hug the headlines, among others-- bobbit, lewinsky, wiener, sandusky, sanford, schwarzenegger, woods, petraeus, etc.  it's a veritable teenage soap opera of runaway hormones, on prime time.

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The warriors of the Roman Republic were scarcely known for their puritanical sexual mores, but they nevertheless managed to conquer most of the known world. One minute the patriotic press are wrapping themselves in the flag and telling people to Support Our Troops! The next they are hounding (recently-former) senior officers from their jobs over ‘inappropriate’ emails.

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It does not take a scandal chart to describe the known facts about the affair. Petraeus and Broadwell had an affair that allegedly began after Petraeus retired from the military in 2011, and thus was no longer bound by military law under which adultery is a criminal offense.

Four months ago, around the time that the affair ended, Broadwell wrote anonymous emails to Tampa socialite Jill Kelley telling her to stop making moves on ‘her’ man. Kelly then forwarded the emails to Humphries, an FBI agent who had been trying to get off with her by sending her shirtless emails. The FBI agent informed his office who opened a case. Dissatisfied by the apparent progress on the case, Humphries then contacted a member of Congress who referred the matter to GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

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Adultery might expose an individual to threat of extortion. Under standing policy, Petraeus would have likely lost his security clearance immediately pending the outcome of an investigation. That would have made it all but impossible for Petraeus to remain as Director of the CIA for any length of time. But removing a security clearance merely prevents a person from accessing additional information that they might compromise. People cannot be forced to forget secrets they have already learned. Absent any proof that Petraeus had broken any law, there was a national security interest in not disclosing the affair unless doing so was necessary.

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There having been no laws broken and no evidence of Petraeus having been targeted for extortion, the investigation could have been completed shortly after interviewing Petraeus, which might have allowed him to keep the job. But the fact that Humphries had alerted Cantor made that impossible.  And now, here we are, treating a simple affair between consenting adults as if it were the greatest national security breach since the Rosenbergs (which was its own controversy).

Enough.

http://americablog.com/2012/11/

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