Scandal Probe Ensnares Commander of U.S., NATO Troops in Afghanistan

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Scandal Probe Ensnares Commander of U.S., NATO Troops in Afghanistan​

SIZE="3"]By: Craig Whitlock
November 13, 2012



ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — The FBI probe into the sex scandal that led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus has expanded to ensnare Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced early Tuesday.

According to a senior U.S. defense official, the FBI has uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of “potentially inappropriate” emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old Tampa woman whose close friendship with Petraeus ultimately led to his downfall. Allen, a Marine, succeeded Petraeus as the top allied commander in Afghanistan in July 2011.

The FBI first notified the Pentagon of its investigation into Allen’s communications with Kelley on Sunday evening, according to the senior defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the ongoing case.

In response, Pentagon chief Leon E. Panetta referred the investigation to the Defense Department’s Inspector General for further review, according to a statement released by Panetta early Tuesday as he was traveling to Australia.

The latest development in the unfolding scandal has shaken President Obama’s national-security staff and upended his carefully chosen plans for his military and intelligence team in his second term.

It also further calls into question the personal behavior of two of the U.S. military’s highest-ranking and most respected figures, who apparently ignored concerns about the highly sensitive nature of their jobs as they embraced personal relationships with younger women who were not their wives.

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In his statement, Panetta said Allen would remain as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan for now, “while the matter is under investigation and before the facts are determined.”


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Guess Jill Kelley is correct, she wasn't having an affair with Petraeus, but now we have two General Staff Officers with their balls in the ringer. Hope the lady (sic) is happy? Her escapades have now ruined the lives and careers of two generals her own family and Broadwell's.

 

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'Shirtless FBI Agent' in Petraeus Affair Is Named...

Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-Mail Inquiry
November 14, 2012 - NYT says it's veteran agent Frederick Humphries

The F.B.I. agent who spurred the investigation that led to the resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director is a “hard-charging” veteran who helped investigate the foiled millennium terrorist plot in 1999, colleagues said on Wednesday. The agent, Frederick W. Humphries II, 47, is also described by former colleagues as relentless in his pursuit of what he sees as wrongdoing, which appears to describe his role in the F.B.I. investigation involving Mr. Petraeus. Suspecting that the case involved serious security issues and was being stalled, possibly for political reasons — a suspicion his superiors say was unjustified — he took his concerns to Congressional Republicans. “Fred is a passionate kind of guy,” one former colleague said. “He’s kind of an obsessive type. If he locked his teeth onto something, he’d be a bulldog.”

The question of how and why the F.B.I. opened the investigation that has had such momentous consequences has been central from the moment Mr. Petraeus stepped down Friday. The emerging portrait of the agent who initiated the inquiry is another step toward an answer. Mr. Humphries, who was identified on Wednesday by law enforcement colleagues, took the initial complaint from Jill Kelley, a Tampa woman active in local military circles and a personal friend, about anonymous e-mails that accused her of inappropriately flirtatious behavior toward Mr. Petraeus.

The subsequent cyberstalking investigation uncovered an extramarital affair between Mr. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, his biographer, who agents determined had sent the anonymous e-mails. It also ensnared Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, after F.B.I. agents discovered what a law enforcement official said on Wednesday were sexually explicit e-mail exchanges between him and Ms. Kelley.

A spokesman for Ms. Kelley provided her version of events in two conference calls with reporters on Wednesday. Ms. Kelley’s concern when she took the e-mails to Mr. Humphries was that she feared the sender was “stalking” Mr. Petraeus and General Allen, said the spokesman, who asked not to be identified. “She asks the agent, ‘What do you make of this?’ ” the spokesman said. “The agent said: ‘This is serious. They seem to know the comings and goings of a couple of generals.’ ”

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Military suspends privileges of women at center of Petraeus scandal
November 14, 2012 - The military has suspended the security clearances of Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley, the women in the heart of the David Petraeus sex scandal.

Broadwell, a West Point graduate, is a former Army intelligence officer and held a high security clearance. Because her clearance was issued through the Army, it was the service's move to suspend it. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Steven Warren says the decision to indefinitely suspend Kelley's pass to MacDill Air Force Base was made in the last couple of days.

Warren said it was decided the pass suspension would be in the best interest of the Air Force base community. Kelley can still enter the base but now must report to the visitor center and sign in like everyone who doesn't have a pass. Kelley's complaints about threatening emails triggered the FBI investigation that turned up CIA Director David Petraeus' affair with Paula Broadwell and led to his resignation. The military is separately probing communications between Kelley and Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

A person close to Kelley says the first anonymous email in the case was sent to Allen and came from someone who used the handle "kelleypatrol." Allen forwarded it to Kelley. That email, which investigators traced to Broadwell, warned Allen to stay away from Kelley. In the e-mail, Broadwell said she knew Kelley and Allen had a meeting scheduled.

Read more: Military suspends privileges of women at center of Petraeus scandal | Fox News

 

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'Shirtless FBI Agent' in Petraeus Affair Is Named...

Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-Mail Inquiry
November 14, 2012 - NYT says it's veteran agent Frederick Humphries

The F.B.I. agent who spurred the investigation that led to the resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director is a “hard-charging” veteran who helped investigate the foiled millennium terrorist plot in 1999, colleagues said on Wednesday. The agent, Frederick W. Humphries II, 47, is also described by former colleagues as relentless in his pursuit of what he sees as wrongdoing, which appears to describe his role in the F.B.I. investigation involving Mr. Petraeus. Suspecting that the case involved serious security issues and was being stalled, possibly for political reasons — a suspicion his superiors say was unjustified — he took his concerns to Congressional Republicans. “Fred is a passionate kind of guy,” one former colleague said. “He’s kind of an obsessive type. If he locked his teeth onto something, he’d be a bulldog.”

The question of how and why the F.B.I. opened the investigation that has had such momentous consequences has been central from the moment Mr. Petraeus stepped down Friday. The emerging portrait of the agent who initiated the inquiry is another step toward an answer. Mr. Humphries, who was identified on Wednesday by law enforcement colleagues, took the initial complaint from Jill Kelley, a Tampa woman active in local military circles and a personal friend, about anonymous e-mails that accused her of inappropriately flirtatious behavior toward Mr. Petraeus.

The subsequent cyberstalking investigation uncovered an extramarital affair between Mr. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, his biographer, who agents determined had sent the anonymous e-mails. It also ensnared Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, after F.B.I. agents discovered what a law enforcement official said on Wednesday were sexually explicit e-mail exchanges between him and Ms. Kelley.

A spokesman for Ms. Kelley provided her version of events in two conference calls with reporters on Wednesday. Ms. Kelley’s concern when she took the e-mails to Mr. Humphries was that she feared the sender was “stalking” Mr. Petraeus and General Allen, said the spokesman, who asked not to be identified. “She asks the agent, ‘What do you make of this?’ ” the spokesman said. “The agent said: ‘This is serious. They seem to know the comings and goings of a couple of generals.’ ”

MORE

See also:

Military suspends privileges of women at center of Petraeus scandal
November 14, 2012 - The military has suspended the security clearances of Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley, the women in the heart of the David Petraeus sex scandal.

Broadwell, a West Point graduate, is a former Army intelligence officer and held a high security clearance. Because her clearance was issued through the Army, it was the service's move to suspend it. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Steven Warren says the decision to indefinitely suspend Kelley's pass to MacDill Air Force Base was made in the last couple of days.

Warren said it was decided the pass suspension would be in the best interest of the Air Force base community. Kelley can still enter the base but now must report to the visitor center and sign in like everyone who doesn't have a pass. Kelley's complaints about threatening emails triggered the FBI investigation that turned up CIA Director David Petraeus' affair with Paula Broadwell and led to his resignation. The military is separately probing communications between Kelley and Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

A person close to Kelley says the first anonymous email in the case was sent to Allen and came from someone who used the handle "kelleypatrol." Allen forwarded it to Kelley. That email, which investigators traced to Broadwell, warned Allen to stay away from Kelley. In the e-mail, Broadwell said she knew Kelley and Allen had a meeting scheduled.

Read more: Military suspends privileges of women at center of Petraeus scandal | Fox News

We now know that Paula Broadwell's home was raided and evidence removed. Supposedly her computer container restricted military information. Petreaus will appear before both the Congressional and Senate committees to answer questions regarding the Benghazi attack.
One hypothesis has been put forth stating that this was a failed October Surprise involving the kidnapping of the Ambassador and finally the exchange for the release of the blind Sheik now in a U.S. prison. I doubt if this will come up, but certainly the Obama's finger prints seem to be all over this fiasco and should answer for it.
The Petreaus-Broadwell affair has nothing to do with Benghazi or is it truly intwined with it?

 

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You morons just keep cranking out the conspiracy theories and drinking the piss even though you have been proven wrong time and time and time and time again.



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