One of my sisters is a fan of the Lifetime movie channel. I usually stop by her house on Sundays after church. She usually has on the Lifetime channel. Because of her, I have now started watching the Lifetime channel. And, because of me, my husband now watches Lifetime. One Saturday, my husband and I watched Lifetime from 9am until 10pm, non-stop.
Well, whether you watch the Lifetime channel or not, we all have a real live Lifetime movie playing out in the headlines. It's the Petraeus/Broadwell/Allen/Kelley Lifetime movie. And, I'm hooked. And, the plot is so convoluted that my eyes have glazed over. Married four star General David Petraeus' married girlfriend, Paula Broadwell, sent anonymous harassing emails to a married Tampa, Florida socialite, Jill Kelley, whom she (Broadwell) perceived as being a threat to her relationship with Petraeus. Well, Kelley reported the harassing emails to the FBI. As an aside to the investigation of determining the source of the threatening emails, the FBI uncovered a relationship between Petraeus and Broadwell and also a subsequent inappropriate relationship between Kelley and married four star General John Allen; Allen who just happened to be in Washington, D.C. preparing for a confirmation hearing for approval to become NATO's supreme allied commander. And, also in that mix is an FBI agent who was reassigned because he sent shirtless photos to Jill Kelley during the investigation. Did you follow all of that??? I couldn't make this up. And, it wasn't too hard to snare Allen because he sent 20 - 30 thousand emails to Kelley over a two year period between 2010 and 2012. 20 - 30 thousand emails!!!!!!!!! General Allen was the top commander in Afghanistan during the time of his romantic email campaign. When did he find time to do his real job and send official emails?
Who are these people? This is cyber world. Haven't they heard that even when you delete emails, they still do exist somewhere out there in cyber space? Emails, never, ever, ever, ever...e-v-e-r disappear. I even know that! And, who are these women?? Circes??
If this was a Lifetime movie, I would complain that the plot is a bit overstated, a bit too busy, too much going on, hard to follow. But, this is real stuff! Paula Broadwell even traveled to Afghanistan with General Petraeus under the guise of gathering information for a biographical book she was writing about him. Did I mention that Broadwell had never written a book before? But, I guess one has to start somewhere. After all, this is my first blog.
But, there is yet another twist to the whole Lifetime movie. Jill Kelley has a twin sister, Natalie, who was involved in a bitter child custody battle for whom David Petraeus wrote a letter to the court on Natalie's behalf as a favor to Jill. When Petraeus wrote this letter he was Director of the CIA until he was outed and turned in his resignation to newly re-elected President Obama the day after his re-election. I wish I could get the Director of the CIA to write a letter on my behalf for ANYTHING!!
AGAIN...who are these women?? Circes? Odysseus would not stand a chance!
Ya gotta love it.
Remember to think twice before you hit that "send" key 20 -30 THOUSAND times.
Peace
Michele
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