Today, Donald Trump a brief break from tweeting horrifying conspiracy theories to continue conducting interviews for his administration's cabinet seats. The latest name to surface is that of retired four-star general and former CIA director David Petraeus, who dropped by Trump Tower today to discuss his candidacy for Secretary of State. The president-elect was apparently quite pleased with how things went.

Petraeus, who enjoyed a decorated military career during which he commanded U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, would certainly bring a wealth of foreign policy experience that certain other rumored Secretary of State candidates (hi, Rudy Giuliani!) decidedly lack. There is only one teensy problem with this choice: Petraeus is the same guy who copped a plea for doing something of which his would-be boss has been quite critical of late. From an April 2015 Washington Post account (all emphasis mine):

David H. Petraeus, a retired general considered one of the greatest military minds of his generation, pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials, ending a long-running legal saga that had threatened to send him to prison. Petraeus, who admitted he provided the materials to his former mistress and biographer, will instead face a two-year probationary period. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler also imposed a $100,000 fine — more than double the amount recommended by prosecutors — to reflect the “seriousness of the offense.” The plea follows a high-profile investigation and prosecution that triggered Petraeus’s resignation from the CIA in 2012. As part of an agreement with prosecutors, he admitted that he improperly removed and retained highly sensitive information in eight personal notebooks that he gave the biographer, Paula Broadwell, to read.

Yes, Petraeus pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges after confessing that he had taken top secret documents home, stashed them in a dresser drawer, and shown them to his biographer—a woman with whom he was also having an extramarital affair, by the way. Donald Trump just spent his entire campaign making bogus claims that his opponent should be jailed for mishandling classified information during her tenure as Secretary of State. Now, the president-elect is wooing an admitted mishandler of classified information to that very same position. (In fact, noted emails expert James Comey himself has characterized Clinton's conduct as nowhere near as serious as what Petraeus did.) Today is as good a time as any to see if the Canadian immigration web site is back up and running yet.