[wideawake]

This article is absolutely ridiculous.

A woman who knows several prominent generals and the director of the CIA personally (it's troubling that she does, but those are the facts) gets anonymous threatening emails which involve the director of the CIA.

She informs a friend who is an FBI agent, who then escalates the inquiry.

This makes complete sense - this clearly touches on national security. What if the agent ignored the emails and something happened to the CIA Director?

This is not "snooping into someone's private emails."

This article is beyond stupid.

[MissMagnolia]

Evidently one of the emails Kelley showed the FBI agent she went to was one forwarded from Gen. Allen (where ‘KelleyPatrol’ was warning him about Kelley). SO, the FBI knew immediately that Allen was somehow involved, plus, they could tell that the movements of Petraeus & Allen, nonpublic information, was known by somebody. This was enough for them to look into it - makes sense to me.

[wmp46]

Whole careers can be destroy by invasion of privacy. The Watergate break in is thought to be illegal gathering dirt on a Democrat who was having an affair. That was before emails.

[ladyjane]

A woman who knows several prominent generals and the director of the CIA

Several generals and high ranking officers of CENTCOM.

That same woman also could sail in and out of MacDill whenever she wanted and has shown an amazingly bizarre behavior.

Troubling? VERY troubling.