[rootos]

Why not lie to her about everything and bang her anyway?

[bsder]

If you were married, this would likely be blackmail material.

Occasionally, though, it does work like you say. I think there was some Asian(?) politician that they tried to blackmail after something like this, and he basically said: "Hey, could you send me a copy of the sex tape? She was smokin' hot, and I'd love to have the video."

[duskwuff]

Sukarno (no last name), first president of Indonesia.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cia-and-kgb-tried-to-bl...

[aliqot]

Didn't an agency also target Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this way as well, or am I thinking of someone else?

[thakoppno]

> King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter

[aliqot]

This is despicable behavior, what a painful history.

[bsder]

Thanks. That was the one.

[mhh__]

(Risk of) Blackmail. Oldest trick in the book.

It doesn't even need to be true, just needs to be compelling.

[TedDoesntTalk]

If he’s not married, what’s there to blackmail?

[2rsf]

Dickpics?

[wil421]

IIRC correctly you can lose your clearance for adultery. The guy was married.

[notch656a]

John McAfee (a known liar, so take it with a grain of salt) claimed in one of his interviews he gained and kept a clearance despite adultery and drug use by being brutally honest publicly about it all, so he was utterly unable to be blackmailed.

[Kalium]

Yeah, that's plausible. They don't care about drugs and adultery. They care that it's leverage. If the world already knows, it's not leverage.

[zepppotemkin]

yeah, lying and trust are much more serious