Cross-posting from the (now locked) IBD thread:
Think about her life. She and her sister attended a fund raising event for Marco Rubio for example, they both came and went quickly after having their photographs taken...without making a contribution. That photograph then becomes another for their growing collection. Jill (Gilberte Khawam) invites the local governor to a function with the King of Jordan and his wife. The governor declines. Was he one of the few who had woken up to her?
Did the King of Jordan really visit her and her husband in their about-to-be-foreclosed house? I wonder...
She and her sister are users. Social climbers of the first order, working their way up the Power-ladder, all the way to the White House, where they only reached the level of eating in the employees Mess and had to settle for the usual guided tour the public is blessed with.
The possible poor relatives that fell off the Majdalany family tree in Lebanon generations ago, although potentially related to the Seattle baby-sitter’s husband, still struggling to become important enough to apply for an honorary consulship for South Korea, to enable them to ask for kickbacks from bona-fide developers (to the tune of millions in the form of ‘commission’) reeks of behaviour verging upon the criminal. Little potential Auchies and Rezko’s, is what they are. Natalie may have learned how it works from her husband Wolfe who was involved in Iraq reconstruction, iirc, but a rake-off from the top is nothing but influence peddling and business done the middle eastern way.
No way would any of them, both sisters or the husband of Jill have taken the risk to jeopardize this ‘business’ - years and years of effort and millions (of debt) have been accumulated in pursuit of their position in ‘society’ NO WAY would she have thrown it all away.
She made a bad move contacting the FBI. It ruined her. She’s now an untouchable and totally useless. The creditors will now gather and she has nothing with which to fight them off.
She made a bad move contacting the FBI. It ruined her. She’s now an untouchable and totally useless. The creditors will now gather and she has nothing with which to fight them off.
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Also...
What boggles my mind is if Kelley was that close to Petraeus and his wife, WHY, when Kelley began receiving the "threatening" emails, would she not contact Petraeus first, before she went to her FBI friend? I also think it is highly unlikely that Kelley would not have known about Petraeus' affair with Broadwell.
Despite the disposition of Petraeus and Broadwell's relationship today (and even considering that they ended the sex when Petraeus said they did (July 2012), they remained on very friendly terms at least up to their public exposure, if not to this day. It doesn't make sense.
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Hmmm... I haven't been following the Kelley end of Benghazi until I read the posts by you and BD. I just looked up a timeline to write this post, and found this factoid: Broadwell sent emails to Allen and several other generals FIRST. .
Weeks later, she sent emails to Kelley.
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May 2012 — Anonymous emails, ultimately traced to Broadwell, were sent to Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and several other generals warning them to stay away from Kelley, the Florida socialite. The emails came from the pseudonym "Kelleypatrol" and included notes on Allen's plans to see Kelley in Washington the following week. Concerned about how anyone else would know about his personal plans, Allen forwarded the emails to Kelley to see whether she was playing a prank on them. Other generals also forward to Kelley copies of emails they received.
Early June 2012 — Kelley begins receiving additional emails directly from various anonymous email accounts claiming she's up to no good. One email mentions Petraeus and an upcoming social event in Washington.
Timeline of events in generals scandal [AP's JOSH LEDERMAN – Fri, Nov 16, 2012
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Is this the first time that fact has been made public?...or am I just catching up to the Kelley end of the story?
Why did no reporter think that that fact deserved a headline all its own? Weeks before Broadwell ever emailed Kelley, she emailed several generals first to warn them to stay away from Kelley.
Did a broke and desperate Kelley try to extort money from Petraeus?