Tampa Is Seen as Social Link for Unfolding Scandal
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
TAMPA, Fla. — Jill and Scott Kelley moved here about a decade ago,
taking up residence in a huge redbrick home with a spectacular view of
the water on Bayshore Boulevard, the city’s most fashionable street.
They quickly established themselves as social hosts to the powerful
four-star officers who run two of the nation’s most important military
commands.
Chris O'Meara/Associated Press
The Tampa, Fla., home of Jill and Scott Kelley on the city’s most fashionable street.
The Kelleys were known for their lavish parties, with extravagant
buffets, flowing Champagne, valet parking and cigars for guests from
nearby MacDill Air Force Base, including David H. Petraeus and Gen. John R. Allen,
who now commands troops in Afghanistan. “Tampa is the kind of community
where, if you’re new to the community, you can carve out your own
niche,” said Pam Iorio, the city’s former mayor, who recalls mingling
with Mr. Petraeus and his wife, Holly, at the Kelleys’ home. “They
decided to carve out a niche with the military.”
DRUG CARTEL, TERRORISTS, AND BANKS
DRUG
CARTEL, TERRORISTS, AND BANKS
By
Former Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson
Profits
Over Patriotism
Every
night, drug smugglers gather at the border between Arizona and Mexico
waiting for nightfall so they can sneak into the U.S. with their loads
of methamphetamines and cocaine. This is the doorway to heaven for the
drug lords. Arizona is the drug highway by which 60 percent of illegal
drugs enter the U.S., eventually earning billions in profits for the drug
cartels. Now comes the news that the cartels and terrorists have not only
penetrated the border but have also infiltrated our banks and spread their
corruption into the financial system. A few months ago, author Jerome
Corsi broke the story that the U.S. office of a London-based international
bank (HSBC) was being investigated for money laundering for international
drug cartels and terrorists.[1]
HSBC, one of the largest banks in the world, has about 7,500 offices in
more than 80 countries and territories in Europe, North and South America,
the Asia Pacific region, the Middle East, and Africa. Their U.S. headquarters
is in New York.
PETRAEUS SEX SCANDAL COULD HAVE SUNK OBAMA
By Cliff Kincaid
A week
before the election, an FBI whistleblower went to a Republican member
of Congress with explosive details about a national security scandal that
could have stopped President Obama’s re-election campaign dead in
its tracks. But the potentially devastating “October Surprise”
was hushed up by Republicans.
Although
all the details are not yet available and new disclosures are coming every
day, it appears that the scandal involves the CIA director leaking classified
information to his mistress and the FBI not holding David Petraeus accountable
for his immoral and illegal conduct. In short, it is the worst scandal
of the Obama Administration and makes the third-rate burglary in the Watergate
scandal look minor by comparison.
Jill Kelley: Five Facts About the Petraeus Affair’s Mystery Woman
by Nina Strochlic
A new name has been dragged into the Petraeus mess: Jill Kelley, who allegedly received ‘harassing’ emails from the general’s mistress. Nina Strochlic on the new clues.
The FBI probe that uncovered Gen. David Petraeus’s affair with biographer Paula Broadwell stemmed from harassing emails she sent another woman. The woman apparently felt threatened
and reported the emails, sparking an investigation that would lead to
Petraeus’s resignation as director of the CIA on Friday. According to a
senior U.S. military official, that woman is 37-year-old Jill Kelley,
the State Department’s liaison to the military’s Joint Special
Operations Command who lives in Tampa, Florida. It’s unclear the nature
of her relationship with Petraeus, but her closeness with the general
was enough that Broadwell allegedly demanded Kelley “stay away from” him. Here’s what has been reported about this mystery woman.
John Allen could face court-martial
Marine Gen. John Allen’s alleged involvement in the romantic
triangle that ensnared David Petraeus could lead to something seldom
glimpsed in the American history of war: the court-martial of a top
battlefield commander.
Defense officials say Allen insists he has done nothing wrong, though they acknowledged he exchanged “potentially inappropriate” emails with MacDill AFB socialite Jill Kelley. But if the Defense Department’s investigation finds Allen did more than write her and actually engaged in an extramarital relationship, he would be subject to prosecution under military justice.
Defense officials say Allen insists he has done nothing wrong, though they acknowledged he exchanged “potentially inappropriate” emails with MacDill AFB socialite Jill Kelley. But if the Defense Department’s investigation finds Allen did more than write her and actually engaged in an extramarital relationship, he would be subject to prosecution under military justice.
FBI agent friend of Florida housewife at center of Petreaus scandal who sent topless pictures to her ‘went rogue’ after being told to 'stay the hell away'
FBI agent friend of Florida housewife at center of Petreaus scandal who sent topless pictures to her ‘went rogue’ after being told to 'stay the hell away'
- Jill Kelley contacted an FBI friend when she received harassing emails
- The male agent had previously sent her shirtless photos of himself
- He wasn't trained in cybercrime issues and was banned from the case but still involved himself by leaking word of the investigation to Congressman
A federal agent who sent topless pictures of himself to the woman at the center of the Petraeus and General Allen scandals was told to 'stay the hell away' from the investigation but took it upon himself to 'nose around', it was revealed today.
After receiving a half dozen harassing emails from an anonymous account - but later linked to Petraeus' mistress Paula Broadwell, Jill Kelley, the Florida woman who served as a volunteer social liaison officer at the Tampa military base, contacted a male FBI agent that she knew and had previously worked with.
During a prior exchange, when the agent was trying to establish a friendly relationship with the married mother-of-three, he sent her shirtless photos of himself adding to questions over his true intention behind going above-and-beyond his work duties to help her with the threats.
Because he was not a part of the cybercrime unit at the FBI nor did he have any training regarding electronic threats, he was never assigned to the case once he brought it to the agency's attention yet he still felt it necessary to involve himself.
New scandal: A federal agent was pulled
off the investigation into David Petraeus's illicit contact with Paula
Broadwell when the agent reportedly became obsessed with Jill Kelley,
another woman involved in the probe
The Real Petraeus Scandal
Nothing titillates the nation’s capital like a sex scandal masquerading
as a policy controversy. The American news media will use any
excuse to get into public officials’ private lives so it can try to achieve
the ratings of Entertainment Tonight-style celebrity gossip shows while
maintaining a veneer of “responsible journalism.” In America’s
unique celebrity-driven culture, this phenomenon happens in political
campaigns as well as the current scandal involving David Petraeus, the
recently cashiered CIA spy chief.
First Petraeus, then Allen — who's next?
Palace Revolution
First Petraeus, then Allen — who's next?
The political class is aghast at the spectacle of one after another of their holy icons falling: first it was David Petraeus, outed by a lone FBI agent in Tampa who took the discovery of his affair with Paula Broadwell to the House Republican leadership and effectively dynamited the CIA chieftain’s career. Now it’s Gen. John Allen, commander of US forces in Afghanistan: the discovery of his “thousands of pages of emails” to Jill Kelley — a 37-year-old looker whose complaints of email “harassment” garnered the full attention of the FBI and led to the downfall of Petraeus — has him in the dock.
Who’s next?
One could easily succumb to the temptation to simply cackle, like Madame Defarge, and attend to one’s knitting as heads roll. Rather than give in to such pure indulgence, however, this writer would much prefer to pursue the answer to a puzzling question: what is going on here? Is this just about the rutting habits of the lords and ladies of Washington, the national security realm’s version of Days of Our Lives — or is what we’re witnessing the equivalent of a palace revolution?
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Pentagon Outs General’s ‘Flirtatious’ E-Mails in Most Uncomfortable Military Briefing Ever
By Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman
Gen. John R. Allen at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Photo: U.S. Army
Citizens In 15 States Demand A Peaceful Secession
By
Jill Kelley and Twin Closely Tied to Top Brass
By CHRISTINA NG, MARTHA RADDATZ and LUIS MARTINEZ | ABC News –
The Florida socialite whose report of harassing emails from Paula Broadwell
ultimately led to the resignation of CIA director Gen. David Petraeus
forged close ties with top military and intelligence officials in Tampa,
hosting lavish parties at her waterfront mansion and earning accolades
as an "honorary ambassador" to the military and an honorary consul
general for Korea.
But detractors say that Jill Kelley,
37, is a social climber whose lavish lifestyle is now threatened by
millions of dollars in debt and possible foreclosure on her home, and
who tried to exploit her connections, perhaps even enlisting Gen.
Petraeus in her sister's bitter child custody fight.
Jill Kelley and her twin sister Natalie Khawam grew up in the Philadelphia area, daughters of a Lebanese immigrant couple who owned a local restaurant. Jill and Natalie would appear together on a 2003 episode of a Food Channel program called "Food Fight," in which they dressed in designer clothes while cooking alligator in a cook-off against two brothers.
After Kelley and her husband Scott, a cancer surgeon, moved to Tampa, Khawam came to live with them and their three children in their $1.5 million home on Bayshore Boulevard.
In Tampa, Kelley volunteered her time to support the military, planning and hosting charitable events for CENTCOM, the Defense Department's Central Command, which is based at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base and has responsibility for directing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kelley, her husband and her sister Natalie became friendly with major players, including both Gen. Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
Petraeus Scandal: Paula Broadwell in Classified Document Probe
By PIERRE THOMAS | ABC OTUS News –
Prosecutors are now determining whether to charge Broadwell with a crime, and this morning the FBI and military are poring over the material. The 40-year-old author, who wrote the biography on Gen. Petraeus "All In," is cooperating and the case, which is complicated by the fact that as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Military Reserve she had security clearance to review the documents.
Obama Promises MoveOn.org: We'll Raise Taxes
President Obama held his unity meeting at the White House today over the fiscal cliff. Attendees ranged from John Podesta of the Center for American Progress to Bono; all were there to urge the president to stick by his guns on raising taxes.
Sheriff Joe to Obama: Let's Meet 'Man to Man' to Discuss Immigration
Defiant and reflective, 80-year-old Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Breitbart News after winning re-election that he has a message for President Barack Obama: granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is unfair to legal immigrants.
And Arpaio would like to discuss amnesty -- along with border security issues -- with Obama “man to man” directly at the White House. He would also like to reach out to Hispanic groups he said have misunderstood his intentions and bought into the negative “propaganda” about him.$1.6 Trillion? Obama Doesn't Want a Deal
President Barack Obama has responded to House Speaker John Boehner's gesture last week towards reaching a deal to avoid the Jan. 1 "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts, putting a specific demand on the table: $1.6 trillion in new tax revenues, reached by raising tax rates on the wealthy in addition to other "tax revenues." The offer is twice as high as a deal Obama scuttled last year, suggesting he may be prepared to let talks fail again.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Why Is Love Pentagon an FBI Case?
Associated Press
There's Something About Jill Kelley
Associated Press
Defenders
of both ex-CIA director David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen deny they
were romantically involved with Jill Kelley, and even if that's true,
the lady sure knew how to pull strings. Petraeus and Allen both wrote
letters to the judge in Kelley's identical twin sister's ugly custody
fight, the New York Post reports. The four-star generals (one retired) wrote to defend the mothering skills of Natalie Khawam, Kelley's sister (the Post
says that's the twin at left with Petraeus). The news comes hours after
the Pentagon revealed Allen was under investigation by the FBI for, as a
source told the Washington Post, 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails with Kelley. (In its own report this morning, the AP has described the emails as "flirtatious," but cautiously adds: "It wasn't immediately clear who wrote the flirtatious notes — Allen, Kelley or both." Allen's defenders
say Allen has done nothing wrong, and that there were far fewer emails
than the report indicates.) This news comes a several hours after
reports that Kelley emailed Petraeus
over the harassing emails Petraeus's lover Paula Broadwell sent Kelley
and a day after the revelation that the FBI agent who kicked off the
case got obsessed with Kelley and emailed her shirtless photos of himself. Why are these guys willing to do so much for this woman? We're not sure, but here's what we know:Jill Kelley Ran a Bogus Cancer Charity, Wants 'Diplomatic Protection'
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