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| Top U.S. commander in Afghanistan investigated, Petraeus scandal widens | |
| 2012-11-13 | |
| The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, is under investigation for alleged inappropriate communication with a woman at the center of the sex scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus, a senior U.S. defense official said on Tuesday. The shocking revelation threatens to fell another of the U.S. military's biggest names and suggests that the scandal involving Petraeus - a retired four-star general who had Allen's job in Afghanistan before moving to the CIA last year - could expand much further than previously imagined. The U.S. official said the FBI uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of communications - mostly emails and spanning from 2010 to 2012 - between Allen and Jill Kelley, who has been identified as a long-time friend of the Petraeus family and a Tampa, Florida, volunteer social liaison with military families at MacDill Air Force Base.
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #13 The sister apparently initiated a spiral of widening email attacks, increasingly more expansive and unbelievable claims about the father, etc. etc. |
| Posted by: lotp 2012-11-13 18:14 |
| #12 e men wrote letters in September to the District of Columbia Superior Court in support of the twin sister, Natalie Khawam, as she sought more visitation rights with her son, court papers showed. So she doesn't have custody? Unusual. I thought we had Movie, now it looks like a miniseries with potential spin-offs. I see something like Dallas meets the Desert Rats. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2012-11-13 16:56 |
| #11 ...problem is that unlike the German culture of blind obedience, the real power of the US military lies with its middle grade officers and NCOs. Try to do what the others have done in using the military against its population will result in fracturing the services. You really don't want the competent middle grades against you, in or out of active duty. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-11-13 16:49 |
| #10 Alternate theory: the Kelley twins are manipulative, fame-seeking drama queens who are going to turn many people's lives into toxic sludge, hopefully including their own. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2012-11-13 16:48 |
| #9 It's a loyalty test/purge of flag officers. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2012-11-13 16:03 |
| #8 Begging the fact that this is all beautiful theater background before all the lemmings in D.C. jump off the fiscal cliff. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-11-13 12:49 |
| #7 If some jerk sends 30,000 pages of e-mail to me. 1) they are classified as spam by me and go directly to the spam folder without being read. 2) I drop that e-mail account and make a new one. 3) If it doesn't quit you get a court order against them. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-11-13 12:40 |
| #6 Well, it's less bloody than a trip to the basement of the Lubyanka and a guard with a Tokarev. |
| Posted by: Sgt.D.T. 2012-11-13 10:49 |
| #5 Ace of Spades says it best: "You can't even make this shit up. It's not a love triangle. It's a love Pentagon." |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2012-11-13 10:01 |
| #4 Ah, yes, the Senate Democrats. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-11-13 08:28 |
| #3 Senate Democrates to call for a DoJ investigation of the entire flag offier ranks, all grades, all services coming in..... 7,6,5,4.... |
| Posted by: Besoeker on the road again 2012-11-13 08:04 |
| #2 Google Blomberg-Fritsch Remember - it was the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei "There can be only one" aka does not play well with others |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-11-13 07:59 |
| #1 Begging to surmise that "more flexibility" referred to. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-11-13 07:45 |