CIA Director David Petraeus resigns because of extramarital affair

[Tropicana]

Is now the story getting hot.

It looks like companies of all sorts looking for contracts in Iran and Afghanistan used the Kelleys to gain access to top brass in the military during the soirées...

I wondered what was going on at these parties. Based on how she dresses, their were likely hookers present.

[Tropicana]

Paula Broadwell, the author who allegedly had an affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus, is suspected of storing significant amounts of military documents, including classified material, at her home, potentially in violation of federal law.

A source familiar with case told ABC News that Broadwell admitted to the FBI she took the documents from secure government buildings. The government demanded that they all be given back, and when federal agents descended on her North Carolina home on Monday night it was a pre-arranged meeting.

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.

The FBI found classified material on a computer voluntarily handed over by Broadwell earlier in the investigation. Prosecutors will now have to determine how important the classified material is before making a final decision. Authorities could decide to seek disciplinary action against her rather than pursue charges.

Senior FBI officials are expected to brief the House and Senate Intelligence Committees today on their handling of the Petraeus investigation. The officials are expected to lay out how the case was developed and argue that there were no politics involved.

The case is so critical that FBI Director Robert Mueller may attend to defend the bureau, ABC News has learned. Members of Congress have been angry that they were not informed about the case before the story was reported by the media, but FBI officials maintain that their guidelines forbid them from discussing ongoing criminal cases.

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Ah but who gave her the security clearance and did she get it before or after she and Petraus started rooksin.

[RichD]

I wondered what was going on at these parties. Based on how she dresses, their were likely hookers present.

interesting conclusion ..so she was trying to look like them?

[Peasie]

The lure of poo-say has brought down many powerful countries and kingdoms in the past. You would think the USA could supply these generals with, um, toys.

[RichD]

Ah but who gave her the security clearance and did she get it before or after she and Petraus started rooksin.

she is a west point graduate and served in the US army and us army reserve

[Tropicana]

reading some crazy stuff about the role of the khawam sisters, who, depending on whom u read, are almost like double agents. at the very least, it appears the sisters are so closely linked to the us military command as to be in a position to influence decisions.

I thought Khawam was the name of the sister's husband...next thing they will say they have credible proof that they are Al Qaeda operatives.

You know when I first saw her photo, I thought, her hair is so dark, I wonder if she died it...maybe she is Middle Eastern.

[Tropicana]

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[RichD]

The lure of poo-say has brought down many powerful countries and kingdoms in the past. You would think the USA could supply these generals with, um, toys.

nobody cares if most of the generals get a bit on the side.

this is just out front because of politics

[Tropicana]

Mrs Kelley - who appears in the yearbook under her maiden name Khawam - was a ‘Mathlete’ and would have competed against other schools in maths competitions.

With her designer dresses and high heels, she looks every inch the accomplished socialite.


But MailOnline can reveal that Jill Kelley was taunted over her large nose in high school - and vowed to get plastic surgery to make it look better – and perhaps the episode points to an inner frailty about her looks that drove her determination to have a string of powerful men in her thrall.


The woman who is at the center of the scandal that has felled two top generals told fellow pupils when she and her twin sister Natalie were 18, that they were ‘going to get a nose job and when we you do you’ll all be in awe of us’.

Her parents, John and Marcelle Khawam, once ran a Middle Eastern restaurant and now live in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.
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[Tropicana]

The Kelleys’ party-giving tradition began before Petraeus’s stint as Central Command chief from 2008 until 2010, friends said, but after the general and his wife arrived, the two couples developed a genuinely close bond.
Jill Kelley and her twin sister, Natalie Khawam, often went shopping and out to lunch with Holly Petraeus, particularly when her husband was stationed in Afghanistan, the friends said. In a 2011 custody battle involving Natalie and her estranged husband, Gen. Petraeus and Allen submitted letters of support to the court.

“We have seen a very loving relationship — a Mother working hard to provide her son enjoyable, educational, and developmental experiences,” Petraeus wrote, speaking on behalf of himself and his wife.
In addition to being guests at the Kelleys’ parties, the Petraeuses were invited to intimate family gatherings, including a Christmas dinner. In one family photo book posted online, David Petraeus is pictured grinning sweetly with the Kelleys’ three young daughters. The caption from their 7-year-old reads: “I was with General Petraeus. He was at my house.”
Federal investigators said Jill Kelley’s closeness to Petraeus — captured in party pictures in local newspapers and online — may have explained why she received harassing e-mails from Paula Broadwell, with whom the general had an extramarital affair.
But Kelley’s brother, David Khawam, said neither of his sisters had anything but a social relationship with Petraeus. He said Jill is a born giver who early on channeled her efforts into political fundraising and later to the military.
It is a quality, he said, born of the Catholic family’s persecution in their native Lebanon; when he, Jill and Natalie were small children, the family fled to the United States, he said. They built a productive new life in America. “We feel we owe everything we have to this country,” David Khawam said. “We’re extremely patriotic.”

Kelley has seemed eager to make her civic involvement clear to those around her. Outside her two-story mansion Tuesday was a gray Mercedes-Benz S500 with vanity plates reading “Honorary Consul” and “1JK.” Nearby, contractors piled up tables and folding chairs after a weekend party.
A military officer who is a former member of Petraeus’s staff said Kelley was a “self-appointed” go-between for Central Command officers with Lebanese and other Middle Eastern officials.
Her presence was often a bit puzzling to Petraeus’s staff, the officer said, but added that there was never any indication that her relationship with the general was anything more than social.
Aaron Fodiman, the publisher of Tampa Bay Magazine and a friend of the Kelleys, said people in the family’s social sphere are shocked by the spotlight that the investigations have cast on the community. “She is so gracious, so lovely,” he said of Jill Kelley. “She’s one of those people — she walks in the room, and the room lights up.”
Londoño reported from Tampa. Anne Gearan, Rebecca Cohen and Alice Crites in Washington contributed to this report.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/tampa-woman-was-hostess-to-the-military-but-had-deep-financial-troubles/2012/11/13/45cea33c-2d19-11e2-9ac2-1c61452669c3_story_1.html

[mountaingal]

reading some crazy stuff about the role of the khawam sisters, who, depending on whom u read, are almost like double agents. at the very least, it appears the sisters are so closely linked to the us military command as to be in a position to influence decisions.

trying to find out more on that. the sister was married to a British guy who was a "former Bush Administration official who served in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and "Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction at the Export-Import Bank of the United States."

the implication is that, like other ME-heritage folks after the iraq war, the sister(s) offered themselves as unofficial liaisons between the us government and the local society in the reconstruction effort.

anyway, speculation abounding like what. i'm on gawker reading the comments, and although u really cannot trust that everything put on the internet is true, i'm seeing some fascinating commentary from people who worked in ithe military in iraq during the bush years.

[Gen]

they are lebanese born (christians)

[Gen]

apparently the south koreans thought highly of Jill as well. (in her role as hostess err liaison smaddy)

trying to find out more on that. the sister was married to a British guy who was a "former Bush Administration official who served in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and "Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction at the Export-Import Bank of the United States."

the implication is that, like other ME-heritage folks after the iraq war, the sister(s) offered themselves as unofficial liaisons between the us government and the local society in the reconstruction effort.

anyway, speculation abounding like what. i'm on gawker reading the comments, and although u really cannot trust that everything put on the internet is true, i'm seeing some fascinating commentary from people who worked in ithe military in iraq during the bush years.

[Xavier]

How many reality shows are going to be spawned from this scandal...

[mountaingal]

Agent Shirtless identified!!! Frederick Humphries II. FBI lawyers say the shirtless pix were sent to Jill Kelley before the complaint, as a kind of joke. Also that he wasnt really on the case so wasnt really dismissed from the case. This agent is credited with convict a terrorist in 1999 through his knowledge of French. He also apparently shot and killed a knife-wielding man outside a military base in Tampa in 2010.
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