Several sources are currently reporting that Gen. John Allen, the top American commander in Afghanistan, "is under investigation for alleged inappropriate communication with a woman at the center of the scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus."
Below find an excerpt from some early reporting on this rapidly developing story.
This from Reuters via MSN:
General investigated for emails with Petraeus friend
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT - The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, is under investigation for alleged inappropriate communication with a woman at the center of the scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus, a senior U.S. defense official said on Tuesday.
The shocking revelation threatens to fell another of the U.S. military's biggest names and suggests that the scandal involving Petraeus - a former four-star general who had Allen's job in Afghanistan before moving to the CIA last year - could expand much further than previously imagined.
The U.S. official said the FBI uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of communications - mostly emails and spanning from 2010 to 2012 - between Allen and Jill Kelley, who has been identified as a long-time friend of the Petraeus family and a Tampa, Florida, volunteer social liaison with military families at MacDill Air Force Base.
It was Kelley's complaints about harassing emails from the woman with whom Petraeus had had an affair, Paula Broadwell, that prompted an FBI investigation, ultimately alerting authorities to Petraeus' involvement with Broadwell. Petraeus resigned from his job on Friday.
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Let me apologize in advance for not hanging around to field comments --- just caught this news on my way to sleep, but thought you all would want to be aware of the story --- and know you will carry on okay without me!