He sought to cover up his deed by lying to FBI agents saying he did not take or have any materials (also according to the plea deal),  In August 2011, Petraeus delivered eight black books of classified and unclassified information of meetings, conferences, and briefings that he took as military commander, including notes from meetings with the president.

  He took the classified material and kept and reviewed it a a private home, which was not an approved site for storage--a double infraction.

When white working class folks finally realize that most all their anxieties are actually a primary consequence of the tremendous and still-increasing disparities in wealth by class, rather than the direct result of any supposedly disqualifying cultural differences between themselves and their socio-economic peers of color, we'll finally achieve a significant breakthrough and will be at last getting someplace.

As horrific and lamentable as all this has been, particularly for the people of northern and southwestern Mexico where the bulk of the violence and fighting have occurred, it has also been an ongoing tragedy for over a decade now. And unfortunately, it shows no sign of abatement any time soon.

In fact, to give this underreported conflict some brutally stark perspective, more people died during the Mexican Drug War between 2007 and 2014 (164,345) than in Afghanistan (21,415) and Iraq (81,636) combined during that same period.

Now to be sure, not all documented homicides in Mexico can be linked directly to the drug war itself, and differentiating drug war-related violence from the raw totals is often quite problematic, if only for the simple fact that not all sources in that country can be considered trustworthy and reliable.

Further, some analysts such as Molly Molloy of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces make a compelling argument that these totals may have actually been low-balled, because both the government and the cartels have a vested interest in lowering the official body count.

Still, the very sharp spike in homicides that occurred in Mexico in the wake of the military's intervention in the illicit drug trade since Dec. 2006 is likely a direct consequence of the government's policy, which reflects the enormous toll suffered by noncombatants as collateral damage caught in the conflict's crossfire.

..wore a medal that some Hungarian news outlets and scholars identified

But some Hungarians

Hungarian scholars who spoke to TPM did not unanimously agree that the medal he wore on inauguration night could definitively be identified.

None would be so tacky as to wear one in public.

Some truly outstanding contemporary writers have had original works first published in Playboy, such as Joseph Heller, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood and Norman Mailer. And the magazine scored some truly notable interviews over the years with the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., Stanley Kubrick, Miles Davis, Hunter S. Thompson, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jimmy Carter and Milton Friedman.

From my perspective, that's just not the case anymore -- and hasn't been for quite a long time, really. Simply put, Playboy flourished as something of a counterintuitive and cultural icon during an era when there was still a Hayes Commission and Catholic Legion of Decency out there berating Americans over perceived lapses in morality. There was no other publication like it in America.

Once American society began shedding its Victorian / Edwardian mores in earnest and started becoming more liberal and tolerant, the magazine became a victim of its own success, as other publications and media outlets piggybacked on it and passed it by. By the late 1970s and early '80s, Playboy was already something of a relic.

Man, can you imagine the fun Hunter S. Thompson could have had with this?