TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - When news vans camped outside her stately home, a Florida socialite tied to the Gen. David Petraeus
sex scandal fell back on her informal credentials as a social
ambassador for Tampa society and top military brass: She asked police
for diplomatic protection.
In the phone call to authorities,
Jill Kelley, a party hostess and unofficial social liaison for leaders
of the U.S. military's Central Command in Tampa, cited her status as an
honorary consul general while complaining about news vans that had
descended on her two-story brick home overlooking Tampa Bay.
"You know, I don't know if by any
chance, because I'm an honorary consul general, so I have
inviolability, so they should not be able to cross my property. I don't
know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well," she
told the 911 dispatcher Monday.
Nearly all lines in the
increasingly tangled sex scandal involving Petraeus lead back to Kelley,
whose complaint about anonymous, threatening emails triggered the FBI
investigation that led to the general's downfall as director of the CIA.
And now Kelley is in the middle of an investigation of the top U.S.
commander in Afghanistan over alleged "inappropriate communications"
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