It all started with a questionable investigation into the cyber harassment of Jill Kelley, a woman in Tampa.
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Or did he speed up the process, or otherwise bypass established rules, because of a personal friendship with Jill Kelley?
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The latest twist: the FBI agent who launched the investigation had previously sent shirtless pics of himself to Jill Kelley.
Jill Kelley is a Tampa, Florida socialite who reportedly hails from a Catholic Lebanese family that immigrated to Philadelphia in the 1970s.
Even as a sideshow to the Petraeus fiasco, the Jill Kelley saga was a legitimate story, with two top generals coming under scrutiny.
The gist of the story is that Jill Kelley, a social planner in Tampa started getting approximately 10 menacing emails from an anonymous harasser.
The top US general in Afghanistan, General John Allen, has been cleared of misconduct by the Pentagon for emails sent to Florida socialite Jill Kelley.
And her romantic rival, Jill Kelley, became a captive as well.
Broadwell herself, an extraordinarily accomplished woman, fell victim to jealousy and sent anonymous emails to her alleged threat, Jill Kelley, which were tracked back to her.
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Obama nominated him last Oct. 10, but in November, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stunned many by announcing that Allen was being investigated for potentially inappropriate email exchanges with a Florida socialite, Jill Kelley.
As investigators examine Paula Broadwell's computer, and pour over the voluminous email traffic between Gen Allen and Jill Kelley, they're looking for signs of a possibly cavalier attitude towards the handing of classified material.
Dozens of news stories have recounted how Jill Kelley, a Tampa, Fla. socialite and friend of the Petraeus family, received a series of anonymous emails that she considered to be cyberstalking or cyber harassment.
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Details are slow to come out in part because the three people at the (broken?) heart of the story David Petraeus, Jill Kelley, and Paula Broadwell are not especially talkative at the moment.
One of the odd little details of the past week is the fact that both David Petraeus and John Allen allowed themselves to be used in a messy custody battle involving the son of Jill Kelley's identical sister.
U.S. officials said the FBI discovered Petraeus was involved with Broadwell, a woman who was under investigation for sending allegedly harassing and anonymous e-mails to Jill Kelley, a Tampa socialite who was friendly with Petraeus and his wife.
John Allen, who has been nominated to be the new NATO supreme allied commander for Europe, had accumulated a staggering 20, 000-30, 000 pages of documents, most of them emails with Jill Kelley, a social planner who organized events at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.
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They stressed that such a review had been in the works for some time and was not triggered by the departure of Gen Petraeus or the subsequent question marks raised over "possibly inappropriate communications" involving the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) commander, John Allen, and Tampa socialite Jill Kelley.
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