In addition to close ties with top generals, women in Petraeus scandal had visited White House [View all]

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Source: Associated Press, November 17, 12:36 AM

WASHINGTON — Their close ties to the military community giving them unusual access to top generals, Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley even visited the White House on separate and apparently unrelated occasions before a sex scandal brought down former CIA Director David Petraeus.

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Jill Kelley, the Tampa, Fla., socialite who initiated the investigation that revealed the affair, and her twin sister had two “courtesy” meals at the White House mess as guests of a midlevel White House aide in September and October, the White House official said. Kelley and her family also received a White House tour on the weekend before the Nov. 6 election.

Broadwell, who was writing a book about Petraeus and eventually became his paramour, attended meetings in June 2009 and June 2011 on Afghanistan-Pakistan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is located in the White House complex, the official said.

The White House visits by Broadwell and Kelley illustrate the wide-ranging access both women enjoyed because of their ties with Petraeus, Gen. John Allen and others in the close-knit military community. The White House official discussed their visits on condition of anonymity because the visitors logs being cited have yet to be made public. ...


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Neither met with Obama per a White House official.

So what exactly are the Kelley women doing in these circles of people, just throwing the parties? At least Paula Broadwell is known to work in intelligence, she is supposed to be there, so there is less security concern with her access (albeit the biographer role may have been abused for personal reasons).