Foreign Policy

Note to General Petraeus: FBI does not need a warrant to read old email. It only needs a subpoena.

Petraeus and his mistress used draft emails. She had declassified material on her computer. Apparently an FBI agent had send Petraeus's friend pictures of himself without his shirt.

The Petraeus investigation exposes another salacious email romance with 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails documents relating to the top general in Afghanistan and Petraeus's friend in Tampa, the woman whose complaint started the whole investigation. This sounds like they were running a swingers club. The emails are characterized as flirtatious.

The deceptions of Petraeus.

"More so than any other leading military figure, Petraeus’ entire philosophy has been based on hiding the truth, on deception, on building a false image. “Perception” is key, he wrote in his 1987 Princeton dissertation: "What policymakers believe to have taken place in any particular case is what matters — more than what actually occurred.""

So he was honest about deception.

So the woman, Jill Kelley, who kicked this whole thing off by asking her FBI friend to investigate some emails is wacko.

"A State Department spokesman went to pains to state the obvious, that she was never an official U.S. ambassador: "She does not work for the State Department and has no formal affiliation with the State Department."
But in 911 calls made to Tampa police this week about trespassing reporters, Jill Kelley seems to indicate that her property is considered diplomatic soil.
"I'm the honorary consul general so they should not be on my property," Kelley said. "I don't know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well."
A former military officer told us that Kelley often sought to bypass protocol officers and make direct connections with the top generals such as David Petraeus, and General John Allen. She also courted their wives. Sources describe her as a prolific emailer and caller. One admiral instructed an aide: "You'll have to manage her for me."
Living in a million-dollar home, the Kelley's seemed to perfectly blend social status, patriotism, and philanthropy. But records on file with the state of Florida show nine different court actions involving debts, mortgages, and a foreclosure."

It seems to me they're all wacko.

Apparently the emails that sparked the investigation were tame. So the only reason the FBI investigated was Kelley's FBI agent friend, the one who sent her pictures with his shirt off, was obsessed with her.