Petraeus Primer Day 11: ’50 Shades of Khaki’

In what seems like day 45 of the still-unidentified Petraeus "scandal," a pall of regret descends: Paula Broadwell’s here, David Petreaus’s here. Meanwhile, Petraeus has retained a  DC lawyer known for negotiating big-buck political book deals to help navigate his exit from government--and whatever else.

Meanwhile, predictable partisan bickering continues over the differing versions of the Benghazi attack.

And we’re well into tedious "lessons learned":  Slate.com believes the takeaway is that human beings are morons when using technology, specifically email which apparently we use "constantly--and, all too often, unthinkingly." In the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik weighs in , coining "50 Shades of Khaki" as he cleverly links the Petraeus affair with Philip Roth’s under-the-radar retirement from writing last week.

But, wait! Didn’t  Paula Broadwell’s indiscrete dad tell New York Daily News that whatever it is we’re watching is  a "a smokescreen" veiling a bigger story? “This is about something else entirely, and the truth will come out,” he said. “There is a lot more that is going to come out…You wait and see. There’s a lot more here than meets the eye.” Maybe he was just angling for a book deal too.