Among the many odd, swirling facts surrounding the unfolding David Petraeus scandal: Jill Kelley, the longtime friend of the former CIA director who reportedly went to the FBI complaining of harassing emails from Petraeus' mistress Paula Broadwell, has reacted to the mess by bringing out the scandal equivalent of heavy artillery. She's hired DC superlawyer Abbe Lowell and crisis PR specialist Judy Smith—despite the fact that the FBI has concluded its investigation and there are no criminal allegations on the table. 
 
 Kelley is a Tampa socialite who worked as an "unpaid social planner" for MacDill Air Force Base, according to the New York Daily News. According to a statement she released, she and her husband had been close with the Petraeus family for five years. Kelley began receiving anonymous, apparently threatening emails—the specifics haven't yet been reported—at some point last summer and reached out to an associate in the Tampa office of the FBI for help. The emails were traced to Broadwell, and when agents looked through her inbox they came across Broadwell's relationship with Petraeus. That's the story, anyway. 
 
 But why would Kelley hire Lowell and Smith? It's not clear why she would need a lawyer at all, given the fact that she is a victim in this situation. (One obvious inference is that Broadwell perceived Kelley as a romantic threat, but a friend of Petraeus' told ABC News that he and Kelley were just friends. And if she really were carrying on with Petraeus, it seems unlikely that Kelley, who is married with three children, would react to the emails by going to the feds.) 
 
 Even if Kelley simply found it prudent to keep a lawyer handy—why Lowell? It's like hiring David Boies because your friend got a speeding ticket. Lowell is the quintessential Washington power broker. He represented Clinton before the Senate during his impeachment trial. He specializes in disgraced political figures, including John Edwards. He's the kind of guy you hire when you're seriously fucked. 
 
 Likewise, Judy Smith is one of those unique DC creatures one hires to make serious problems go away. Her clients have included Monica Lewinsky, Larry Craig, Wesley Snipes, Michael Vick, Kobe Bryant, and the family of Chandra Levy. 
 
 That's a lot of very expensive firepower for someone whose role in this thing is limited to getting some nasty emails. 
 
 [Image via AP] ||||| CIA Director David Petraeus was shocked to learn his mistress was suspected of sending threatening emails warning another woman to stay away from him, former staff members and friends told The Associated Press Monday. 
 
 Jill Kelley leaves her home Monday, Nov 12, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. Kelley is identified as the woman who allegedly received harassing emails from Gen. David Petraeus' paramour, Paula Broadwell. She serves... (Associated Press) 
 
 In the frame grab from C-SPAN Book TV video taken Feb. 6, 2012, author Paula Broadwell speaks to an audience about the book she co-authored, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," at the Politics... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus kisses his wife Holly during an armed forces farewell... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2009 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus, commander U.S. Central Command, left, stands with his wife Holly before the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game between the Arizona Cardinals... (Associated Press) 
 
 This July 13, 2011, photo made available on the International Security Assistance Force's Flickr website shows the former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan... (Associated Press) 
 
 Petraeus told these associates his relationship with the second woman, Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, was platonic, though his biographer-turned-lover Paula Broadwell apparently saw her as a romantic rival. Retired Gen. Petraeus also denied to these associates that he had given Broadwell any of the sensitive military information alleged to have been found on her computer, saying anything she had must have been provided by other commanders during reporting trips to Afghanistan. 
 
 The associates spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly discuss the matters, which could be part of an FBI investigation. 
 
 Petraeus, who led U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, acknowledging his extramarital affair with Broadwell and expressing deep regret. 
 
 New details of the investigation that brought an end to his storied career emerged as President Barack Obama hunted for a new CIA director and members of Congress questioned why the months-long probe was kept quiet for so long. 
 
 Kelley, the Tampa woman, began receiving harassing emails in May, according to two federal law enforcement officials. They, too, spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. The emails led Kelley to report the matter, eventually triggering the investigation that led Petraeus to resign as head of the intelligence agency. 
 
 FBI agents traced the alleged cyber harassment to Broadwell, the officials said, and discovered she was exchanging intimate messages with a private gmail account. Further investigation revealed the account belonged to Petraeus under an alias. 
 
 Broadwell had co-authored a biography titled "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," published in January. In the preface, she said she met Petraeus in the spring of 2006 while she was a graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and she ended up following him on multiple trips to Afghanistan as part of her research. 
 
 But the contents of the email exchanges between Petraeus and Broadwell suggested to FBI agents that their relationship was intimate. The FBI concluded relatively quickly _ by late summer at the latest _ that no security breach had occurred, the two senior law enforcement officials said. But the FBI continued its investigation into whether Petraeus had any role in the harassing emails. 
 
 Petraeus, 60, told one former associate he began an affair with Broadwell, 40, a couple of months after he became the director of the CIA late last year. They mutually agreed to end the affair four months ago, but they kept in contact because she was still writing a dissertation on his time commanding U.S. troops overseas, the associate said. 
 
 FBI agents contacted Petraeus, and he was told that sensitive, possibly classified documents related to Afghanistan were found on her computer. He assured investigators they did not come from him, and he mused to his associates that they were probably given to her on her reporting trips to Afghanistan by commanders she visited in the field there. The FBI concluded there was no security breach. 
 
 One associate also said Petraeus believes the documents described past operations and had already been declassified, although they might have still been marked as "secret." Broadwell had high security clearances on her own as part of her job as a reserve Army major working for military intelligence. But those clearances are only in effect when a soldier is on active duty, which she was not at the time she researched the Petraeus biography. 
 
 During a talk last month at the University of Denver, Broadwell raised eyebrows when she said the CIA had detained people at a secret facility in Benghazi, Libya, and the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA base there was an effort to free those prisoners. 
 
 Obama issued an executive order in January 2009 stripping the CIA of its authority to take prisoners. The move meant the CIA was forbidden from operating secret jails across the globe as it had under President George W. Bush. 
 
 CIA spokesman Preston Golson said: "Any suggestion that the agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless." 
 
 Broadwell did not say who told her about CIA activities in Libya. The video of Broadwell's speech was viewed on YouTube. 
 
 A Petraeus associate said the retired general was shocked to find out about Broadwell's emails to Kelley. Petraeus was not shown the messages, but investigators told him the emails told Kelley to stay away from the general in a threatening tone. 
 
 Petraeus told former staffers and friends that he was friends with Kelley and her surgeon husband, Scott, and regularly visited their brick home with imposing white columns overlooking Tampa Bay. 
 
 Jill Kelley, 37, served as a sort of social ambassador for U.S. Central Command, hosting parties for the general when Petraeus was commander there from 2008-2010. 
 
 A photo shows Petraeus and his wife, Holly, with the Kelleys and Jill's identical twin sister Natalie Khawam in the Kelleys' front yard, decked out in party beads with a pirate flag in the background. Khawam, is a Tampa lawyer who works on health care fraud and whistleblowers cases, according to her Linkedin profile, which was removed from the professional networking site Monday. The sisters _ hard to differentiate in the picture with their matching long dark locks and black dresses _ also competed in a cook-off filmed for a Food Network show called "Food Fight" in 2003. 
 
 Jill Kelley regularly kept in touch with then-Gen. Petraeus when he became commander of the Afghan war effort, the two exchanging near-daily emails and instant messages, two of his former staffers say. But those messages were exchanged in accounts that his aides monitored as part of their duties and were not romantic in tone, the staffers said. 
 
 Kelley did not answer the door at her Tampa home Monday morning, and later left her home by car without talking to reporters. The Kelleys hired Abbe Lowell, a Washington lawyer who has represented well-known clients including lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former presidential candidate John Edwards, and released a statement Sunday through a Washington-based crisis management firm that she and her family had been friends with the Petraeus family for five years and wanted to respect their privacy. 
 
 Petraeus and his family are devastated over the affair, especially Mrs. Petraeus, who "is not exactly pleased right now," after 38 years of marriage, said Steve Boylan, a friend and former Petraeus spokesman who spoke to him over the weekend. 
 
 "Furious would be an understatement," Boylan told ABC's "Good Morning America." The couple has two adult children, including a son who led an infantry platoon in Afghanistan as an Army lieutenant. 
 
 Broadwell is married with two young sons and lives in Charlotte, N.C. She has not returned phone calls or emails seeking comment. 
 
 As the criminal investigation continued into the emails to Kelley, FBI Director Robert Mueller and eventually Attorney General Eric Holder were notified that agents had uncovered what appeared to be an extramarital affair involving Petraeus, said one of the law enforcement officials. 
 
 Broadwell and Petraeus have each been questioned by FBI agents twice in recent weeks, with both admitting to the affair in separate interviews. Broadwell's last interview took place the week of Oct. 22. Petraeus' second interview was the week of Oct. 29. The FBI notified Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, of the investigation on Tuesday Nov. 6, Election Day. 
 
 Clapper called Petraeus that night and urged him to resign. Clapper informed the White House late Wednesday, and aides informed the president Thursday morning, before Petraeus came to personally hand in his resignation letter. 
 
 Some members of Congress are questioning why they weren't told sooner. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she wants to investigate why she had to find out from news reports Friday. 
 
 But there were at least a couple of members of Congress who heard inklings of the affair before the election. Republican Rep. Dave Reichert of Washington state received a tip from an FBI source that the CIA director was involved in an affair in late October. Reichert arranged for an associate of his source at the FBI to call House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Saturday, Oct. 27, according to Cantor spokesman Rory Cooper. 
 
 Cooper told The Associated Press Monday that Cantor notified the FBI's chief of staff of the conversation but did not tell anyone else because he did not know whether the information from a person he didn't know was credible. 
 
 "Two weeks ago, you don't want to start spreading something you can't confirm," Cooper said. 
 
 The FBI responded by telling Cantor's office that it could not confirm or deny an investigation, but assured the leader's office it was acting to protect national security. Cooper said Cantor believed that if the information was accurate and national security was affected, the FBI would, as obligated, inform the congressional intelligence committees and others, including House Speaker John Boehner. 
 
 One of the law enforcement officials who spoke to the AP said long-standing Justice Department policy and practice is not to share information from an ongoing criminal investigation with anyone outside the department, including the White House and Congress. The official said national security must be involved to notify Capitol Hill, and that was not the case in the Petraeus matter. 
 
 Petraeus' affair with Broadwell will be the subject of meetings Wednesday involving congressional intelligence committee leaders, FBI deputy director Sean Joyce and CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell. 
 
 Petraeus had been scheduled to appear before congressional committees on Thursday to testify about the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Morell is expected to testify in place of Petraeus. 
 
 Feinstein and others didn't rule out the possibility that Congress will try to compel Petraeus to testify about Benghazi at a later date, even though he's relinquished his job. 
 
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 Yost reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Nedra Pickler, Larry Margasak and Adam Goldman contributed to this report. Dozier can be followed on Twitter (at)kimberlydozier. ||||| Times staff and wires 
 
 In Print: Monday, November 12, 2012 
 
 ﻿Gen. David Petraeus, left, longtime friends Scott and Jill Kelley and Holly Petraeus watch the 2010 Gasparilla parade from the Kelleys’ front lawn. 
 
 The woman who reported getting the harassing emails that led to the downfall of CIA Director David Petraeus is, according to a military official, an unpaid MacDill Air Force Base social liaison who once likened the retired general to a grandfather for her daughters. 
 
 Jill Kelley, 37, who lives with her husband and three young daughters in a Bayshore Boulevard mansion in South Tampa, has been friends for years with Petraeus and his wife, Holly. 
 
 Petraeus served as leader of the U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base between 2008 and 2010, before he was sworn in as CIA director. The Petraeuses frequently invited the Kelleys to social events held on the base, and the Kelleys likewise invited the Petraeuses to their home. 
 
 While he served as head of CentCom, Petraeus in 2010 marked his first celebration of the Gasparilla pirate festival at the Kelleys' nearly 5,000-square-foot house. He and his wife arrived at a white tent on the front lawn of the home with a 28-officer police motorcycle escort. 
 
 This past September, Jill Kelley said she had been named "honorary consulate general to South Korea" and also attended a breakfast at the White House. 
 
 The Associated Press, quoting an unnamed military official, reported Sunday that Kelley had received harassing emails from Petraeus' mistress, which led the FBI to examine biographer Paula Broadwell's email account and discover her secret relationship. 
 
 As the news about her involvement in the scandal broke Sunday, Kelley was holding a birthday party for one of her daughters. Approached on the lawn during the party, Kelley expressed her family's continuing regard for Petraeus. But she declined to discuss the matter further. 
 
 Later, Jill and her husband, Dr. Scott Kelley, issued a brief statement: "We and our family have been friends with Gen. Petraeus and his family for over five years. We respect his and his family's privacy and want the same for us and our three children." 
 
 Dr. Kelley is listed as a general and oncology surgeon at the Watson Clinic in Lakeland. Previously, he was a physician at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. 
 
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 As more details emerged about Petraeus' affair with Broadwell, members of Congress said Sunday they want to know when the now ex-CIA director and retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they weren't told sooner. 
 
 "We received no advance notice. It was like a lightning bolt," said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee. 
 
 Petraeus resigned while lawmakers still had questions about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA base in Libya that killed four Americans. 
 
 Lawmakers said it's possible that Petraeus will still be asked to appear on Capitol Hill to testify about what he knew about the U.S. response to that incident. 
 
 Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the circumstances of the FBI probe smacked of a coverup by the White House. 
 
 "It seems this (the investigation) has been going on for several months and, yet, now it appears that they're saying that the FBI didn't realize until Election Day that General Petraeus was involved. It just doesn't add up," said King, R-N.Y. 
 
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 Petraeus, 60, quit Friday after acknowledging an extramarital relationship. He has been married 38 years to Holly Petraeus, with whom he has two adult children, including a son who led an infantry platoon in Afghanistan as an Army lieutenant. 
 
 Broadwell, a 40-year-old graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and an Army Reserve officer, is married with two young sons. 
 
 Broadwell has not responded to multiple emails and phone messages. 
 
 Petraeus' affair with Broadwell will be the subject of meetings Wednesday involving congressional intelligence committee leaders, FBI deputy director Sean Joyce and CIA deputy director Michael Morell. 
 
 Petraeus had been scheduled to appear before the committees on Thursday to testify on what the CIA knew and what the agency told the White House before, during and after the attack in Benghazi. Republicans and some Democrats have questioned the U.S. response and protection of diplomats stationed overseas. 
 
 Morell was expected to testify in place of Petraeus, and lawmakers said he should have the answers to their questions. 
 
 But Feinstein and others didn't rule out the possibility that Congress will compel Petraeus to testify about Benghazi at a later date. 
 
 The Associated Press and Tampa Bay Times staff writer Amy Scherzer contributed to this report. ||||| PERSON OF INTEREST 
 
 A new name has been dragged into the Petraeus mess: Jill Kelley, who allegedly received ‘harassing’ emails from the general’s mistress. Nina Strochlic on the new clues. 
 
 The FBI probe that uncovered Gen. David Petraeus’s affair with biographer Paula Broadwell stemmed from harassing emails she sent another woman. The woman apparently felt threatened and reported the emails, sparking an investigation that would lead to Petraeus’s resignation as director of the CIA on Friday. According to a senior U.S. military official, that woman is 37-year-old Jill Kelley, the State Department’s liaison to the military’s Joint Special Operations Command who lives in Tampa, Florida. It’s unclear the nature of her relationship with Petraeus, but her closeness with the general was enough that Broadwell allegedly demanded Kelley “stay away from” him. Here’s what has been reported about this mystery woman. 
 
 She Is Close Friends With Petraeus 
 
 According to an unnamed mutual acquaintance who spoke to the Associated Press, the two are good friends and see each other often. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Kelley has described Petraeus as being like a grandfather to her family. A society column reports that in 2010, General Petraeus and his wife, Holly, attended Tampa Bay’s annual pirate-themed festival on Jill and her husband Scott’s front lawn. They apparently arrived with a 28-cop motorcycle escort to the classy get-together, which had waiters serving up crab cakes and lamb chops. 
 
 She's a Liaison to a Mysterious Counterterrorism Unit 
 
 Kelley is a "person of influence" in the Tampa community, according to a New York Times source, active in many charities and organizations. She's also an unpaid social liaison to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), one of the most mysterious components of the U.S. military. Based in Fort Bragg, N.C., the 30-year-old JSOC officially works to study and conduct “special operations requirements and techniques, ensure interoperability and equipment standardization, plan and conduct special operations exercises and training, and develop joint special operations tactics.” But it’s widely known that the JSOC conducts top-secret counterterrorism missions, and encompasses such elite units as the Navy SEALs. The JSOC was integral in helping the CIA and Pentagon in the investigation on the attack of the Benghazi compound, which means Kelley and Petraeus likely crossed paths in their work. 
 
 She’s Married With Children 
 
 In 2004, Kelley had a baby girl named Natalie Grace, who according to the local magazine, was their second child. A Tampa Bay Times article in 2007 describes the couple as having three children, ages 4, 2, and 1. 
 
 Her Husband Is a Widely-Respected Doctor 
 
 Dr. Scott Kelley is currently a general surgeon at the Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Fla. He was formerly the head of Esophageal Oncology and Surgery at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla. He left the Moffitt Center in 2008, but the year before was honored at Doctor’s Day for his accomplishments, an event the couple hosted at their house. The two share a similar interest: a few years ago Jill told a reporter that she put her medical studies on hold to have a baby. According to Dr. Kelley's bio, he did his residency and research in Philadelphia, where Jill grew up and lived until her mid-twenties, so it's possible they met during that time. 
 
 She Has an Identical Twin 
 
 According to news articles, Jill and her identical twin sister, Natalie, competed in Food Fight, a culinary showdown, on the Food Network in 2003. The two grew up in Huntingdon Valley, Philadelphia. 
 
 ||||| Jill Kelley is the mysterious woman at the beginning of a chain of events that led to Gen. David Petraeus resigning as the director of the CIA. Who is she? 
 
 The 37-year-old Florida native was identified as an unpaid "social liaison" to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida by US officials on Sunday, according to the BBC. 
 
 The Associated Press reported that Kelley and her husband were regular guests at events at Central Command on the air base, where Petraeus was stationed from 2008 to 2010. The Kelleys befriended Petraeus and his wife Holly during their time in Tampa. 
 
 A US official said the coalition countries represented at Central Command gave Kelley a certificate as an "honorary ambassador" to the coalition, but she is not employed by the US government and has no official status. 
 
 She was initially reported to work for the State Department, but USA Today later reported that that was not the case. 
 
 According to a local CBS affiliate, Kelley and her husband, Dr. Scott Kelley, a cancer surgeon, live on Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa. 
 
 When the scandal broke on Sunday, she was hosting a lavish birthday party for one of her daughters on the front lawn. It was attended by 100 guests and included a DJ, a jumping castle and caterers. 
 
 "Sunday afternoon, the couple apparently held a birthday party for one of their children. No one answered the door when 10 News knocked on it afterwards," the news outlet reported. 
 
 More on GlobalPost: Jill Kelley: The other woman in David Petraeus scandal 
 
 Neighbors said she enjoyed entertaining at her 5,000 sq ft home in South Tampa, and was usually seen dressed in designer outfits and with full make-up. She was very proud of her work with the military and regarded as a great networker in the community. 
 
 "At weekends while most women dress down and wear sweat pants and the like she will be fully made up and dressed as if she were going to a dinner," a neighbor said. 
 
 Kelley was raised in Philadelphia, according to The New York Daily News. Her family had settled there in the mid-1970s and opened a Middle Eastern restaurant after immigrating from Lebanon, where her father was a renowned organist. 
 
 The Daily Beast said Kelley has three young children with her husband, and she described Petraeus as a grandfather to her family. She has an identical twin, Natalie. 
 
 Kelley reportedly received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, the woman who was allegedly having an affair with Petraeus. According to the AP, Kelley reporting the emails led the FBI to investigate Broadwell's emails, uncovering her affair with Petraeus. A former associate of Petraeus said Kelley was the target of the emails, but there was no affair between her and Petraeus. 
 
 But today, the Daily Mail reported that friends believe it was Kelley's husband who told the FBI. 
 
 "Jill's husband Scott is very protective of her, and I'm sure he was the one who said go to the FBI," a close friend said. 
 
 "They are a very close couple who are devoted to each other and their children. If his family was being threatened he would not hesitate to go to the police." 
 
 Another close friend of Petraeus told ABC News that Kelley and Petraeus' relationship was innocent. "It is very clear there was nothing going on other than friendship between Kelley and Petraeus." 
 
 USA Today reported that Kelley and her husband have hired DC-based crisis manager Judy Smith and attorney Abbe Lowell. 
 
 More on GlobalPost: Petraeus took mistress, Paula Broadwell, to Paris on government-funded trip ||||| As questions swirl about the extramarital affair that led to the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, the retired general and his biographer, Paula Broadwell, have been quiet about details of their relationship. However, information has emerged about the woman who received the emails from Broadwell that led to the FBI's discovery of Petraeus' indiscretion. 
 
 FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus kisses his wife Holly during an armed forces farewell... (Associated Press) 
 
 In the frame grab from C-SPAN Book TV video taken Feb. 6, 2012, author Paula Broadwell speaks to an audience about the book she co-authored, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," at the Politics... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this Jan. 15, 2012 photo, Paula Broadwell, author of the David Petraeus biography "All In," poses for photos in Charlotte, N.C. Petraeus, the retired four-star general renowned for taking charge of... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus, standing with his wife Holly, participates in an armed... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2004 file photo, Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, center, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, kisses his wife, Holly, second left, as his son, Stephen, left, and daughter,... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2009 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus, commander U.S. Central Command, left, stands with his wife Holly before the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game between the Arizona Cardinals... (Associated Press) 
 
 This July 13, 2011, photo made available on the International Security Assistance Force's Flickr website shows the former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan... (Associated Press) 
 
 A senior U.S. military official identified the second woman as Jill Kelley, 37, who lives in Tampa, Florida, and serves as an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the military's Central Command and Special Operations Command are located. 
 
 In a statement Sunday, Kelley and her husband, Scott, said: "We and our family have been friends with Gen. Petraeus and his family for over five years. We respect his and his family's privacy and want the same for us and our three children." 
 
 The military official who identified Kelley spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation. He said Kelley had received harassing emails from Broadwell, which led the FBI to examine her email account and eventually discover her relationship with Petraeus. The FBI contacted Petraeus and other intelligence officials, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked Petraeus to resign. 
 
 A former associate of Petraeus confirmed the target of the emails was Kelley, but said there was no affair between the two, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the retired general's private life. The associate, who has been in touch with Petraeus since his resignation, said Kelley and her husband were longtime friends of Petraeus and wife, Holly. 
 
 Attempts to reach Kelley were not successful. Broadwell did not return phone calls or emails. 
 
 The Petraeus news caught much of Washington by surprise and members of Congress said Sunday they want to know more details about the FBI investigation that revealed the extramarital affair between Petraeus and his biographer. They questioned when the retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they weren't told sooner. 
 
 "We received no advanced notice. It was like a lightning bolt," Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday." 
 
 Petraeus, 60, quit Friday after acknowledging an extramarital relationship. He has been married 38 years to Holly Petraeus, with whom he has two adult children, including a son who led an infantry platoon in Afghanistan as an Army lieutenant. 
 
 Broadwell, a 40-year-old graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and an Army Reserve officer, is married with two young sons. 
 
 Petraeus' affair with Broadwell will be the subject of meetings Wednesday involving congressional intelligence committee leaders, FBI deputy director Sean Joyce and CIA deputy director Michael Morell. 
 
 Petraeus had been scheduled to appear before congressional committees on Thursday to testify about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Morell was expected to testify in place of Petraeus, and lawmakers said he should have the answers to their questions. But Feinstein and others didn't rule out the possibility that Congress will compel Petraeus to testify about Benghazi at a later date, even though he's relinquished his job. 
 
 Clapper was told by the Justice Department of the Petraeus investigation at about 5 p.m. last Tuesday on Election Day, and then called Petraeus and urged him to resign, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly. 
 
 FBI officials said the congressional committees weren't informed until Friday, one official said, because the matter started as a criminal investigation into harassing emails sent by Broadwell to Kelley. 
 
 Concerned that the emails he exchanged with Broadwell raised the possibility of a security breach, the FBI brought the matter up with Petraeus directly, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation. 
 
 Petraeus decided to quit, though he was breaking no laws by having an affair, officials said. 
 
 Staffers for Petraeus said Kelley and her husband were regular guests at events he held at Central Command headquarters. 
 
 A U.S. official said the coalition countries represented at Central Command gave Kelley an appreciation certificate on which she was referred to as an "honorary ambassador" to the coalition, but she has no official status and is not employed by the U.S. government. 
 
 The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the case publicly, said Kelley is known to drop the "honorary" part and refer to herself as an ambassador. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Michele Salcedo, Pete Yost and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
– The woman who reportedly received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell has lawyered up, and in a big way. Jill Kelley has hired Washington super-attorney Abbe Lowell and crisis manager Judy Smith—the equivalent of arming with a Howitzer and a jet fighter—even though the FBI says its investigation is over, Gawker reports. To put it in perspective: Smith's past clients include Kobe Bryant and Monica Lewinsky, and Lowell has represented Bill Clinton and John Edwards. You only hire Lowell "when you're seriously f--ked," quips Gawker. Meanwhile, details are emerging on Kelley: She's a Tampa, Fla., socialite and "unpaid social liaison" for the Joint Special Operations Command, reports the Daily Beast. The JSOC is a fairly mysterious part of the US military that includes the Navy SEALs, helps with counter-terrorism missions, and played a big role in the Benghazi investigation. Kelley has three children, aged 4, 2, and 1. Her husband, Dr. Scott Kelley, is a widely respected doctor. They were often guests at events held by Petraeus at MacDill Air Force Base, where he was stationed from 2008 to 2010, the AP reports. She considered Petraeus to be like a grandfather to her children, reports the Tampa Bay Times. She likes entertaining at her grand, 5,000-square-foot home and usually dresses to the nines, reports GlobalPost. "At weekends while most women dress down and wear sweat pants and the like she will be fully made up and dressed as if she were going to a dinner," says a neighbor. Petraeus was stunned to hear about the emails that Broadwell allegedly sent Kelley, and he insists his relationship with Kelley was purely platonic, friends and former staff tell the AP. Click for more about the Petraeus affair.