USA Africa Dialogue Series - - Jill Kelley And Twin Sister Visited White House Three Times --- From The Washington Post

Prof bangura:

This is becoming a scandalous preoccupation about a non-scandal.

As a blogger a few days--the Republicans are desperately in need of a Scandal. They need a major distraction to soothe their healing emotional loss.
They need a scandal --preferably one at the same or higher level of notoriety as the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex gate of the late 1990s. But will they get one?

The White House along with the Capitol Hill and the Washington Monument is one of the major tourist attractions in Washington, DC.
Any visitor to Washington DC, including citizens and non citizens of the USA could apply for a tour of the White House and could be allowed to join any of the public tours after obtaining  a security clearance.

So what is the big deal in all of this?

Bye,

Ola

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Don't you have something better to do with your time? --- On Fri, 11/16/12, Abdul Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> wrote: From: Abdul Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Jill Kelley And Twin Sister Visited White House Three Times --- From The Washington Post To: "USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com" <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com> Date: Friday, November 16, 2012, 6:03 PM Jill Kelley and twin sister visited White House three times View Photo Gallery — The David Petraeus scandal: Cast of characters:?A scandal that began with the relationship between retired Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the CIA, and his biographer, Paula Broadwell, has mushroomed. Here's a look at the people mentioned in the case. By Amy Gardner, Updated: Friday, November 16, 3:50 PM Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite embroiled in the scandal surrounding former CIA director and retired Army general David H. Petraeus's abrupt resignation last week, visited the White House with her twin sister three times this fall, a White House official confirmed Friday. Kelley, 37, and her sister, Natalie Khawam, lunched at the White House mess, or cafeteria, twice with a mid-level staffer in the Obama administration whom Kelley had met socially in Tampa. One lunch occurred in late September and the other in late October. In addition, Kelley, her husband, their three children, her sister and her sister's child took a tour of the White House on Nov. 4. Among the new information uncovered by the Post's Greg Jaffe and Anne Gearan, the Petraeus biographer was asked to leave her doctoral program at Harvard and apparently mistated her accomplishments at West Point. All three visits were arranged by the staffer as a courtesy and at the request of Kelley, said the White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The staffer did not offer a private tour but simply arranged for Kelley and her relatives to take a tour of the White House that is regularly available to members of the public. The official said the staffer met Kelley during a visit to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, headquarters of the U.S. Central Command. It was during Petraeus's command there that he met Kelley, a prominent Tampa socialite known for throwing lavish parties and for befriending top military leaders at Central Command. Kelley flaunted her access to these military VIPs but also developed what family members called genuine friendships with some. Her close connections to Petraeus and Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, have brought them all under intense scrutiny in an unfolding scandal. Federal investigators have said that Kelley's complaint about harassing e-mails — which were eventually traced to Petraeus's biographer, Paula Broadwell — triggered the FBI's discovery of the general's extramarital affair with Broadwell and his eventual resignation from his post as head of the CIA. According to a senior defense official, Kelley also exchanged hundreds of e-mails with Allen, who has been ensnared in the case amid questions about whether he had "inappropriate communications" with her. The White House official declined to identify the staffer who lunched with Kelley, but said the employee is not a senior member of the administration. That characterization stands in contrast to Kelley's own boasts. In e-mails with the mayor of Tampa reported in The Huffington Post, Kelley crowed about visiting the White House days before the scandal broke. "I was at the WH with my friends in the Administration this weekend – the stress was surreal!" she wrote, according to The Huffington Post. "But glad POTUS has been reelected!" The official said anyone with dining privileges at the White House mess can bring a guest. The official also said that Kelley and her family went through the same security screening that all members of the public must go through to take the White House tour. The White House official also volunteered that Broadwell herself attended two meetings in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, within the White House complex. One meeting was in June 2009 with a staff member handling Afghanistan and Pakistan policy. The other meeting, in June 2011, was a briefing on Afghanistan-Pakistan policy for a group of approximately 20 attendees. The latter meeting took place a few hours before President Obama gave a prime-time speech to the nation on his plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Staff writer Carol D. 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