Naomi Wolf thinks the Petraeus story is about snooping by the national security state

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5. She might have a point about privacy in general, but it doesn't work with Petraeus

When you sign up for a government job that has a security clearance, you sign away your right to have things be private. Put another way, you sign paperwork that gives various agencies the right to go through your private files, email, etc.

Petraeus had no expectation of privacy or that his emails were not going to be examined at some point by an investigating agency.