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Subscribe to RSSJill Kelley and her twin sister have lunched at the White House twice, and they toured the White House days before the scandal broke. Records show Paula Broadwell has also visited the White House, attending meetings on Afghanistan. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
Jill Kelley and Paula Broadwell, the two women at the center of the David Petraeus scandal, both visited the White House multiple times during the last four years.
Kelley has visited three times since September of this year, and Broadwell’s two visits were in 2009 and 2011, a White House official told NBC News on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Kelley’s trips were set up by a White House staffer she met at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., where she served as an unpaid social coordinator.
The staffer hosted Kelley and her twin sister, Natalie Khawam, for breakfast in the White House cafeteria, known as the mess, on Sept. 28 and again, for lunch, on Oct. 24.
The third visit, on Sunday, Nov. 4, occurred just three days before Gen. Petraeus resigned as CIA director, citing an extramarital affair. Kelley also took a tour of the White House that day with her husband, Scott, and their three children, as well as Khawam and her child.
Broadwell visited the White House twice -- in June 2009, when she met with a National Security Staff member who handled Afghanistan and Pakistan policy, and in June 2011 when she attended a broad briefing on Afghanistan-Pakistan for approximately 20 guests, according to the White House official.
The women have emerged as key figures in the scandal that cost Petraeus his job.
Numerous government and law enforcement officials have told NBC News that Kelley inadvertently triggered the investigation that revealed Petraeus' extramarital affair with Broadwell, his biographer, by complaining to an FBI agent she knew about a series of harassing emails she had received. Agents investigating the cyber-harassment case first determined that Broadwell was the author of the emails, then found evidence of her affair with Petraeus, the officials said.
Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman at the center of the scandal that brought down David Petraeus, reportedly had connections that went beyond the social and military elite of Tampa. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
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Ya' know.... no matter how much make-up gets piled on, and how many "events" they're invited to, at the end of the day, they just can't hide their Po' White Trash roots.
If the White House perceived Petraeus as a threat, iis it possible they used these two to set him up and get him out of the way?
Everyone involved in this mess are GOPers. A GOP operative wanted Paula to run for Senate in NC.
Big deal, they "visited" the White House. Funny how this happened during the last few months, when President Obama has been campaigning. As miraculous as the right believes he is, even Barack Obama can't be in two places at once.
Also, does anyone remember Jeff Gannon, the fake news reporter who was really a porn actor, who actually spent the night at the White House during the Bush administration? Now there was a REAL scandal. Didn't see so much outrage about that, did you?
Well, I have never been there, could care less. Doesn't interest me in the least one way or the other.
Hmmm. Seems to be working. All of this tabloid-nonsense serving as an effective distraction, pulling everyone's focus away from what's really important behind it all.
What did Patreaus say re; the Benghazi incident?
What was the President's role in it all? How and why did it fail in the way that it did?
All of this Dem VS Rep / Rep VS Dem bashing is pointless. There are armies of crooks and liars in both camps. Everybody's dirty. Who cares about who's been tickling who behind the curtains?
What was the President's role in the Benghazi failure? That what I wanna know......
If you were watching a real news station rather than Fox, you would already know.
If CIA and FBI in involved, who would investigate these women for being spies?
Non-story.. Ate in the cafeteria and got a tour? You'd think they were servicing jc staffers out of the Lincoln bedroom from the comments here
So, who really brought these men down? They did it to themselves! Rule of thumb, don't screw around on your partner. Can avoid a lot of trouble that way.
A White House staffer need to be fired, simple. WH access restriction to these ladies. Let the story unfold and press on. they'll make money off of it to a tabloid "The American Way".
why do i have to see this dumb crap on the news.
What, like politicians and high ranking soldiers don't have groupies? Just because we had an election doesn't mean we got rid of all the sycophants and hanger ons from our government. As long as there is influence and/or benefits to be gained there will always be Washington "Ho's". These two skanks are bush league (pardon the pun) compared to Grover Norquist.
To hear the GOP tell it, NOBODY tosses a salad like 'ol Grover...
That's hangers on. There is no plural for "on".
This article is stupid. Who cares? Do we need another hurricane to get the media off these two??
Unless these women's private lives were were known to Obama and his top officials during their visits to the White House, the only aspect of this story is that the women visited the White House. We had a President, Bush, who was clueless about running the government in the White Houe and he was ably assisted by two snake-eye oil men, Cheney and Rumsfeld, who lied to the pliable President to get America into a costly Iraq war. So what should be tomorrow's headline: "Cheney and Rumsfeld were repeat liars in the White House"?
Your speaking of two patriots, not the garbage that is there now.
OMG now it's Bush's fault Obama has whores in the White House!!!
Somehow these BB's (Bush Bashers) can blame the mistakes all presidential mistakes (even before Bush), on Bush.
You have to read your history. Terrorists (you know, the ones who obama is protecting) caused us to go to war. I thank God every day that we are not hit by another attack while the muslim in chief is in office.
plot keeps getting thicker and Obama is in the middle of it all.......meanwhile 4 american lay buried someplace because of the inability of our nations leaders.
Neither of these two delusional bitches are worthy of my sausage, I'm fussy about where I put it. Two power seeking idiots. Neither of them would even make a good hooker
Are these the 2 that were sucking on President Stinky's (BO) TonyD for him? Was that fat bottomed Moochie present, participatory, and perky?
The general could have gave/approved a interm security clearence until the final clerance came in
Jill Kelley Nasty hard looking woman who is flat out disgusting. This problem should have been taken care of as they usually do.
Is it any wonder the Republicans got creamed by the Democrats and shellacked by President Obama? Lets just say the Republicans are not the brightest bulbs on the tree and boy do they hate women.
coopy, Obama has been and is a pretender. He came into office with nothing but arrogance and petulance. Blaming others for one's shortcomings do not denote a leader. He is weak on foriegn policy and his domestic agenda will take a decade or more to fix.
Yes Stanley, and he a two-time re-elected President. You prove my point. Republicans are not the brightest bulbs on the tree. Wow you folks are thick.
So happy to know that our national security boils down to the most basic of all threats, a vagina. Priceless.
The biggest threat that cannot be trusted is the Dick...in the White House.
Sounds like the same as the clinton white house, hot and cold running whatever you call them.
Chicago politics.
HOW TO CREATE PUPPETS:
STEP 1. Get a couple whores/socialites to screw whoever you need to manipulate and then threaten to go public.
End of lesson.
They (whores) were in the White House talking strategy with the POTUS.
I knew there would be some idiot posting something about the President on here.
golfy, and---it's YOU.
Ali Weinberg's Fox-style-journalism is a disappointment, indeed! Weinberg is trying to make a story where there is none. I was a White House east-wing staffer, albeit decades ago during Nixon and Ford's administrations. White House employees often invite friends and family for tours, and yes, even to dine in the mess. And Broadwell's NSA connection and invitation to attend a "broad briefing" on Afganistan and Pakistan a year and a half ago is not a story, either, considering her background. There is NO connection with the President here, as the headline implies.
Ali is really scraping the bottom of the bucket on this one! I'm surprised NBC editors let this one run.
I'm surprised NBC let this out, as well. They normally have their nose so far up Maobama's butt, they can count his fillings.
I don't know about you, but my mind is sorting putting 2 & 2 together here....I wonder what they were promised by the Obama Administration to "do in" a couple of Generals...and I wonder who in the White House directed the entire project.....Sorry but knowing Demoncrats, and this Administration, I wouldn't doubt it at all....
That white house staffer had probably received some favors from both.