Two women and two generals
One is Paula Broadwell, 40, the biographer with whom resigned CIA chief David Petraeus had an extramarital affair and about whom she wrote the book “All In: the Education of David Petraeus.”
The other is Jill Kelley, 37, the Tampa, Florida socialite, whose complaint about harassing e-mails from Paula led to the investigation that blew the lid off the Petraeus-Broadwell illicit relations and prompted the general to resign. The probe also exposed the e-mail link of another general to Kelley. He’s John Allen, slated to fill Petraeus’s former post as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Allen and Kelley had about 20,000 pages of email between them, mostly sexy, flirtatious, and embarrassing.
Kelly, hounded by media, complained that she is not the “criminal” but Broadwell.
The complex web of the scandal includes -- aside from the two women and the two generals -- Petraeus’s wife of 38 years, Holly; Paula Broadwell’s cardiologist husband Scott Broadwell; Jill Kelley’s cancer-surgeon husband Scott Kelley (great Scot, they’re both Scotts); and one FBI agent who previously had sent Jill a photo of himself, shirtless.
Testifying at Capitol Hill Friday (in the U.S.), Petraeus said the CIA knew all along it was terrorists who attacked U.S. consulate in Benghazi City in Libya and killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American staffers. That, as a report said Kelley visited the White House four days before Petraeus resigned.