Jill Kelley e-mails depict a striving Tampa socialite and a smitten military brass

Washington Post ^ | February 3, 2015 | Craig Whitlock

[maggief]

Judging from her e-mails, Jill Kelley was star-struck by the big-name military commanders rotating between the war zones in the Middle East and her home town of Tampa. And they were equally smitten with her.

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Although Kelley was never accused of wrongdoing, her name and her unusual niche in the national-security establishment were quickly publicized by the news media. In 2013, she sued the FBI and the Defense Department, asserting that her privacy rights had been violated by officials who leaked her name and personal information to reporters.

The federal government has sought to dismiss the case, but a judge has ruled that the lawsuit can proceed in U.S. District Court in Washington.

[7thson]

Honey trap - but the media will not investigate.

[sten]

muslim agent working an intelligence source

having the press realize this would mean they would have to acknowledge muslims as the enemy

[GrootheWanderer]

The government already ruined John Allen’s career and her reputation. Now, it wants to just say “Whoops” and suffer no consequences.

[Old Sarge]

Post about the late Mike Hastings...

[Bratch]

Her parents are Lebanese Catholics.

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Jill Kelley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gilberte "Jill" Khawam Kelley (born June 3, 1975) is a Lebanese-American socialite and advocate that previously served as the honorary ambassador to the U.S. Central Command Coalition, and honorary consul to the Republic of Korea.^[1][2]

In 2012, Kelley, a Florida socialite with connections to diplomatic and military circles, issued a complaint to the FBI in May 2012 over a series of anonymous stalking e-mails.^[3] The threatening emails were traced to Paula Broadwell, the biographer that had an affair with General David Petraeus. Kelley became a focus of media coverage when her name was leaked (as the victim) of the FBI investigation. ^[4] On June 3, 2013, Kelley filed a privacy lawsuit against the federal government alleging government officials violated her privacy rights by maliciously leaking her name and unlawfully searching her personal email communications with untrue descriptions to the media.^[5] In November 2013, Kelley described herself as the "human face" of the damage that can be caused by abusive government probing into personal emails and communications of law abiding citizens.^[6] In 2014, she received the support of two U.S. Congressmen to advocate for stronger privacy rights using her story to "bring awareness to the damages that can be caused by government overreach and unwarranted searches of emails ^[7] [8] so that history will not repeat itself, and this never happens to another innocent family again." ^[9]

She was named by the New York Times "An Apostle for Privacy".^[10]

Personal life

Kelley was born in Beirut, Lebanon^[11] on June 3, 1975. As the Honorary Ambassador to United States Central Command's Coalition Forces, Kelley is known to be someone with 'connective tissue' to the diplomatic world.^[12] Diplomats used Kelley's connections with Central Command senior generals to secure briefings for visiting foreign dignitaries.^[13]Kelley was a regular on the DC diplomatic circuit and frequently attended embassy events.^[14] She was known to be the go-between for Lebanese and other middle eastern government officials. She was active with dignitaries from the region and invited to functions at various embassies in Washington.^[14]

In March 2011, she received the Joint Chiefs of Staff Award for public service for "building positive relationships between the military and the Tampa community".^[15]

Family and marriage

In 1999, Kelley married cancer surgeon Dr. Scott Kelley. Dr. Kelley completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College, attended Columbia University Medical School,[2] and completed surgical residency at the University of Pennsylvania.^[16] They live with their three children in Tampa, Florida. Her family includes her identical twin sister,Natalie Khawam;^[17] a brother, David Khawam; and sister, Caroline.^[18] Jill's parents^[19] are Lebanese Maronite Catholics who immigrated to the United States from Jounieh, Lebanon in the mid-1970s.^[20] Kelley lived in the Philadelphia area until her mid-20s.^[21] She studied to be a doctor and she researched and published medical research at the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to medical course work at Hahnemann Hospital.^[22] Jill Kelley put her medical studies on hold at one point to have a baby.

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Photo of Jill Kelley (left) with Marco Rubio and her sister Natalie Khawam at a private
fundraiser.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Hmmm

[Ocoeeman]

I indirectly know these people and more importantly I do know this crowd.

Probably not espionage.

These folks are what you would call social climbers, the twin girls in particular. In truth they come from what we used to call trailer trash and used their looks to advance into a higher level of society.

I used to work with an individual desperately trying to hang with this crowd and quite simply they were legends in their own minds, constant name droppers.

In my opinion what we have here is a whole group of these people and they used their military contacts to puff themselves up. Think of High School and the various subsets and you will get the idea. The women are incredibly catty.

The question is is the a national security risk e.g. working for a foreign power? I don’t think so. But I do know that they are all about themselves.

[windcliff]

I hope they can straighten their necks.

[hoosiermama]

Hastings?
Was he working on any other material. ... Something he might have connected dots on?

[maggief]

Keep in mind, at the time of Hastings’ death, the FBI had denied they had ever investigated Hastings, despite Hastings sending out a frantic email hours before his death with the subject line: “FBI Investigation,” stating that he was being investigated. Also included in the body of the email was a reference to a “big story” he was working on. This “big story” turned out not to be about Bergdahl, but an investigation of then-terrorism czar—now CIA head—John Brennan, per Hastings’ widow. After Hastings’ death, all of his notes and documents on Brennan were suppressed—and this “big story” never appeared in Rolling Stone.

Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/traitor-bowe-bergdahl-linked-michael-hastings-murder/#QxQ7VkiFbC3Pe5ip.99

[hoosiermama]

Was he contacted by people posing to be FBI? Or did he just assume FBI? Will we ever know?

[maggief]

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/347475869629022208

WikiLeaksVerified account
@wikileaks

Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.

3:07 PM - 19 Jun 2013

https://news.vice.com/article/primary-sources-emails-show-fbi-worked-to-debunk-conspiracy-theories-following-michael-hastings-death

The change is significant because the FBI did have one file about Hastings’ work. On June 11, 2012, the FBI’s Washington field office opened a file and submitted “unclassified media articles” to it in order to “memorialize controversial reporting by Rolling Stone magazine on June 7, 2012.”

The articles in question included an investigative report Hastings wrote about the disappearance of US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was rescued by special forces earlier this year in exchange for five Taliban Guantanamo detainees.

The FBI located the three-page file on Hastings in a “cross-reference” file that pertained to an international terrorism investigation involving Bergdahl’s disappearance. The bureau turned over the file about two months after Hastings died.

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Related?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2987182/posts

The secret war behind Benghazi

[LucyT]

Article and comments, #1 through 12.

Thanks, Maggie. What a mess.

[hoosiermama]

WOW!
Just read article. Where does source rank in reliability?
It certainly makes sense! Maybe that special “group” explains why congress is so cooperative. Stevens (R Alaska) air plane accident comes to mind.

[hoosiermama]

Note on the FR thread post 11 by MM. With what we know today VERRRRY IN TER EST ING

[paddles]

To me there's very little new in this article, except they do mention Mattis' name as well as the name of his CENTCOM deputy. Further, they didn't reference any of Mattis' emails...only the deputy's.

IMHO this was a shot across Mattis' bow after he recently testified before congress at the ineptitude of Barry-O and his clown-car national security team.

[hoosiermama]

Is Gowdy being played or is HE a player?