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Jill Kelley Claims “Honorary” Diplomatic Status In Latest Twist In Petraeus Scandal

Last night, while discussing the Petraeus scandal on CNN, the network played a 911 call from one of the four major figures in the scandal: Jill Kelley. The call is perfectly bizarre in which Kelley, a Florida socialite, claims “honorary diplomatic” status to get the police to stop people from walking across her lawn. The dispatcher listens patiently and appears to resist the temptation to tell her that he will be sending over some honorary police to protect their honorary diplomatic residence.

Kelley is the woman who went to a friend in the FBI to complain about threatening emails from an anonymous source — emails that led the FBI to Paula Broadwell and ultimately Gen. David Petraeus. She and the agent are a rather odd couple. He sent her shirtless pictures of himself and was eventually removed from involvement in the case. She is described as a “nice, bored, rich socialite” who volunteered with the military as a self-described “social liaison” and cultivated relationships with generals. This included a questionable relationship with Gen. John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, involving a remarkable number of emails described by some sources as a bit raunchy and “like phone sex.”

Just when you thought the scandal could not get more weird, it did. Last night, we heard this 911 call for “diplomatic protection:”

“Thank you and you know, um, I don’t know, but by any chance because I’m an honorary council general, so I have inviolability so I should… they should not be able to (cross) this property, I don’t know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well.

Kelley has been described as invoking her diplomatic status previously. She was given the unpaid title of “honorary ambassador” to CENTCOM, the Department of Defense Central Command. This gives her about the same diplomatic status as the hostess at an International House of Pancakes.

What is strange is that she is protected by the non-honorary title of a citizen of Tampa from trespass. She is allowed to demand the removal of people from her property so long as it is not a public space or a private space with a form of constructive easement.

She might want to stick with the Tampa title because “Honorary ambassador” does not fit neatly into the the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961). However, if she wishes to claim to be an honorary diplomat, it would allow Tampa to declare her persona non grata but it is not clear what country she would be expelled to since she is claiming diplomatic immunity in her own country. It might be just easier to get a “No Trespass” sign at Home Depot.

284 thoughts on “Jill Kelley Claims “Honorary” Diplomatic Status In Latest Twist In Petraeus Scandal”

  1. Agreed, But are you aware Patreus is a fitness fanatic, working out hard 2-3 hours a day. She is obviously a fitness fanatic just by looking @ her. My slam was not on her but him. I guess I lost you w/ “gym bimbo.” Finally their shared love of the military is trumped by two, taut, sweaty bodies wrthing…never mind.

  2. nick, Broadwell is much more intelligent and accomplished than your average “gym bimbo”….. your words. She and Petreaus seem to have a lot in common.

  3. Blouise, Word is the emails w/ Allen and Kelley were not “flirtatious” but akin to phone sex[see Bubba/Monica]. Can I make a politically incorrerct observation…ok, thanks. Let me preface this by saying I’m fat, 6foot 225. My wife is slightly overweight. I have a friend who has always been into fitness. He is I believe an anorexic male who works out obsessively and eats w/ guilt. His wife bore 3 children and got fat. He tried to badger her into losing weight and like many people, she resented it. He cheated on her w/ gym bimbos who look lile Broadwell and Kelley, leading to their divorce. He lost all my respect and we vacation w/ his wife and adult children annually. It’s tangential to this because my gut says this is WAY more than sex, but time will tell. I believe this gym bimbo dynamic has probably come to the minds of some of the folks here, particualrly the women. And, Kelley’s husband needs to seriously consider salads, for what it’s worth.

  8. Now the push is to save Allen. Trash the women involved as much as possible so that Allen can be portrayed as a gallant guy who made a tiny, little error in judgement instead of just another puffed-up General being led around by his … sword.

    Give it up … the troops are snickering … he’s toast.

  9. I think the sex is a diversion from the real issues that start with the pillow talk and what’s done with the information.

  10. OT:

    http://rt.com/news/hamas-open-war-israel-694/

    Hamas says now in ‘open war’ with Israel, promises ‘gates of hell’

    Published: 14 November, 2012, 20:04
    Hamas says now in ‘open war’ with Israel, promises ‘gates of hell’

    “Hamas says that it is now in a state of “open war” indefinitely with Israel after the killing of the Hamas commander Ahmed Jafari by an Israeli airstrike.”

  11. I kept looking for information regarding Petraeus’ vetting for the CIA Directorship wondering how in the world he could sneak this affair pass those in charge of vetting when I came upon this little gem buried in a Bloomberg article and my questions were answered:

    “The sensitivity of an extramarital affair at the CIA stems from the potential for exposure to blackmail, according to one U.S. official, as well as the issue of a leader setting a bad example for subordinates. In Petraeus’s case, however, the affair did not jeopardize his high-level security clearances, because he already had passed the polygraph exam required for a Top Secret clearance as a senior military officer and didn’t need to retake it at the CIA, the official said. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-09/cia-director-petraeus-resigns-citing-extramarital-affair.html)

    They didn’t vet him for the Director’s job. They gave him an oath to take and I think the oath requires that he disclose an affair but come on, flushing an oath down the toilet is certainly not out of character for Petraeus … the adulterous affair proves that. If he’d been properly vetted this huge flaw in his character would have been uncovered or if it hadn’t been it would be because he’d successfully lied about it which, with the unfolding of this recent discovery, would have been a criminal act requiring prosecution.

    Petraeus skates and the CIA has to live with the fact that their failure to properly vet their Director created a vulnerability of potentially huge proportions. Incompetency hasn’t been fixed.

    What about that lone FBI agent who everybody within the upper circles of government has labelled “obsessed” and “shirtless”? Well, he’s the guy who called a couple of politicians and got this whole thing flowing to the public. He might turn out to be the only hero in this whole mess. Of course, we’ll never know that for sure, will we?

  12. Who came up with this moniker that she is a “socialite”? Is this 1956 and she is a member of a country club and smokes cigarettes to look cool and has tea with Mrs. Minever? Or did I spull it wrong? Social-light? I heard that socialite crap on tv last night. These generals are porking some outright hookers and y’all gotta get your language correct. Or is it Corrrectemon?
    Socialite my arse. How much were these generals paying and from whence did the porkiing funds come from? If from the government tit then it is theft by other means for socialite purposes.
    Hooker, hooker bo booker, banana fanna fo moker. Hooker!

  17. Petraeus Scandal: Paula Broadwell in Classified Document Probe
    By PIERRE THOMAS | ABC OTUS News
    http://gma.yahoo.com/broadwell-classified-document-probe-114054139.html

    Excerpt;
    Paula Broadwell, the author who allegedly had an affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus, is suspected of storing significant amounts of military documents, including classified material, at her home, potentially in violation of federal law.

    A source familiar with case told ABC News that Broadwell admitted to the FBI she took the documents from secure government buildings. The government demanded that they all be given back, and when federal agents descended on her North Carolina home on Monday night it was a pre-arranged meeting.

    Prosecutors are now determining whether to charge Broadwell with a crime, and this morning the FBI and military are poring over the material. The 40-year-old author, who wrote the biography on Gen. Petraeus “All In,” is cooperating and the case, which is complicated by the fact that as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Military Reserve she had security clearance to review the documents.

  18. nick:

    I knew about the police groupies and I imagine their are fighter pilot and SEAL groupies but general officer groupies?

    what do they call them? Silver star tarts?

  19. Interesting link Elaine. I think it was Swarthmore Mom who called these ladies groupies, and I think that is a very appropriate term. Gen. Petraeus is one sleezy sob.

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