Petraeus affair revealed after lover sent threatening e-mails to other woman.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:

Jill Kelley, 37, of Tampa, Florida, is a State Department military liaison officer who appears to have a longstanding friendship with Petraeus, who quit as CIA director in disgrace last week. 

She told agents that Paula Broadwell, the 40-year-old biographer who has been identified as the ex-CIA boss' mistress, sent her harassing emails telling her to 'back off' Petraeus. 

Ms Kelley works in the Joint Special Operations Command, a section of the U.S. Armed Forces that deals mostly with counter-terrorism. 

The Joint Special Ops Command was directly involved in the mission that took out Osama bin Laden and the drone strike that killed radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. 

Details of the affair between Petraeus and Broadwell reportedly came to light during a FBI probe of the emails that she allegedly sent to Ms Kelley. 

The new revelation raises the possibility that Broadwell was growing increasingly jealous of a government employee whose job it was to keep in contact with Petraeus. 

Holly Petraeus, wife of the General, with Jill Kelley and her husband

Ms Kelley, who feared for her safety, contacted the FBI. 

A government official told the New York Post that the emails contained such language as: 'I know what you did,' 'back off' and 'stay away from my guy.' 

The official added: '[Broadwell] clearly thought something was going on' and thought she was in a 'lovers triangle.' 

The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Broadwell had shown up on the CIA radar before over working over concerns about what she was putting on her Facebook page. 

The Tribune reported that there had been concerns about whether Broadwell was giving away sensitive security information in her posts. 

Broadwell, who is married with two young sons, has not responded to multiple emails and phone messages. 

She had planned to celebrate her 40th birthday in Washington this weekend, with many reporters invited. Her husband Scott emailed guests to cancel the party. 

It is also claimed that Broadwell used Petraeus' own Gmail account to send the emails, and when the FBI began to investigate an obvious national security issue instead uncovered explicit messages between the two sent from the decorated war hero's own account - indicating an affair. 

Wow this thing is all kinds of tangled up.

However it is pretty clear after reading this, that while it is a very unfortunate situation damaging a number of promising careers, it is certainly NOT an attempt to create some false story to keep Petraeus from testifying before Congress about the Benghazi incident, like the Right Wing has recently been  all up in arms about.

I think if they keep heading down that conspiracy road they are going to look even more foolish than they did after predicting a Mitt Romney landslide.