Top U.S. General In Afghanistan Is Now Linked To CIA Scandal

Photo: President Barack Obama speaks as Leon Panetta, Army General David Petraeus, Marine General John Allen, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, listen during an event to announce national security personnel changes. The President has tapped current CIA Director Leon Panetta to succeed Robert Gates as the next Secretary of Defense, General David Petraeus to be the next CIA Director, Ryan Crocker to be the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, and General John Allen to succeed Petraeus as commander for ISAF and commander for U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Is Linked To Petraeus Scandal -- New York Times

PERTH, Australia — Gen. John Allen, the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, is under investigation for what a senior defense official said early Tuesday was “inappropriate communication'’ with Jill Kelley, the woman in Tampa who was seen as a rival for David H. Petraeus’s attentions by Paula Broadwell, the woman who had an extramarital affair with Mr. Petraeus.

In a statement released to reporters on his plane en route to Australia early Tuesday, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said that the F.B.I. had informed him on Sunday of its investigation of General Allen.

Mr. Panetta turned the matter over to the Pentagon’s inspector general to conduct its own investigation into what the defense official said were 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents, many of them e-mails between General Allen and Ms. Kelley, who is married with children.

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More News On General Allen Being Linked To The Petraeus Scandal

Scandal probe ensnares commander of U.S., NATO troops in Afghanistan -- Washington Post
General Allen Under Investigation for E-Mails to Petraeus Friend -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Top U.S. commander in Afghanistan under investigation, scandal widens -- Reuters
Top general in Afghanistan caught up in CIA scandal -- Stars and Stripes
David Petraeus CIA scandal engulfs US commander Allen -- BBC
Jill Kelley: Five Facts About the Petraeus Affair’s Mystery Woman -- Daily Beast

My Comment: This is unbelievable .... 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents and emails between a civilian and the top General in Afghanistan .... what are they talking about and what is in those communications that would make the FBI so concerned?

This scandal is growing .... and with more revelations (and leaks) .... more questions are being raised with each passing day.