Salon.com > Jackie Speier http://www.salon.com Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:50:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Dem rep. calls for new probe of Jill Kelley, Gen. Allen emails http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/dem_rep_calls_for_new_probe_of_jill_kelley_general_allen_emails/ http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/dem_rep_calls_for_new_probe_of_jill_kelley_general_allen_emails/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:52:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13347238 Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has called for a renewed investigation into potentially inappropriate emails exchanged between socialite Jill Kelley and Gen. John Allen.

"The fact that they didn't even pursue accessing the private e-mails is very disturbing to me," Speier said of the Pentagon's inspector general report on the matter, in an interview with USA Today. "Because it would suggest that it was an incomplete investigation at the very least. At the worst: [they were] intentionally not pursuing an investigation into whether or not there was an inappropriate relationship, secrecy, national-security breaches. Classified information."

The emails in question were the  thousands of exchanges between Gen. Allen and Kelley. Kelley was pulled into the spotlight when she complained to the FBI about harassing emails, eventually revealed to have been sent by David Petraeus' biographer Paula Broadwell, which eventually led to revelations that Petraeus and Broadwell were having an affair.

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