A special report by Hal Bernton, Mike Carter, David Heath and James Neff · June 23 - July 7, 2002 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chapter 13: 
 
 On the Case 
 
 A French-speaking FBI agent in Seattle, who knew an Algerian accent when he heard it, was the right man to question Benni Noris. 
 
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 Even Humphries, a wiry, high-energy, third-year man, was ready for a breather and a good night's sleep. But seconds into the phone conversation, he was fully alert. 
 
 Agent Patrick Gahan, calling from Port Angeles, Wash., across Puget Sound on the Olympic Peninsula, was calling about an arrest Humphries had heard a bit about earlier that evening. U.S. Customs officers had detained a suspicious man coming by ferry from Canada. In his trunk were bags of white powder, mysterious chemicals and homemade timing devices. 
 
 The detainee, Benni Noris, seemed to speak only French. Gahan didn't, so he was calling Humphries  who had learned French as a high-school student in Ontario, Canada  to help. 
 
 Give me a few minutes to get to the office, Humphries told Gahan. When he got downtown, Humphries obtained a copy of the standard Miranda-rights card in French. He called the customs trailer in Port Angeles and spoke to the suspect on a speaker phone. 
 
 Humphries read Noris his rights in French. Then he asked, "Voulez-vous parler de ce qui est arrivé?" Do you want to talk about what has occurred? 
 
 "Non monsieur, je ne veux pas en parler." No sir, I do not want to talk about it. 
 
 That single sentence told Humphries plenty. He asked that Gahan turn off the speaker and get on the line. 
 
 What ID does this guy have? Humphries asked. A Canadian passport and baptismal certificate from Montreal, with the name Benni Antoine Noris, came the reply. 
 
 "There is no way this guy is who he says he is," Humphries said. "There's no way he's from Montreal." 
 
 The agent knew Quebecois French  and this wasn't it. The accent, he thought, sounded like that of a language instructor he had in the Army  a man from Algeria. 
 
 Humphries, Gahan and customs officials decided to hold the suspect on suspicion of using false identification. They needed to buy time to sort this out. 
 
 The next morning, Humphries wrote up his "302," FBI parlance for the form used to detail the events of the night before. He gave it to Bob Houston, who oversees agents on the Seattle counterterrorism desk, expecting Houston to assign the case to a more experienced agent. 
 
 
 
 
 
 STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES Seattle FBI Agent Fred Humphries' first terrorism case was a big one: Ahmed Ressam. With only three years’ tenure at the bureau, he didn’t expect to be assigned a major international case. 
 
 Humphries, 34, grew up in Steilacoom, Wash., went to high school in Canada and joined the U.S. Army. He climbed steadily through the ranks, but as a captain in military intelligence he feared he was on track to be a career pencil pusher. He decided to go back to school, winning a scholarship to the University of Tampa and studying criminology. 
 
 He spent a summer during college as an intern with the Sheriff's Office in Sangamon County, Ill., where his stepfather was the chief medical examiner. He met FBI agents working on a missing-persons case, and he was hooked. 
 
 Here he was with his own major international case. It was a keen responsibility  coordinating with federal prosecutors, assigning tasks, conducting interviews and keeping track of evidence. 
 
 All this would be especially daunting because the Seattle office was in disarray. It had just been moved into new quarters. Agents hadn't been assigned desks or phones, and their files were stored in boxes. The one working phone line did not accept direct-dial, long-distance calls. Agents were running around with pockets full of quarters, searching for a pay phone that wasn't already tied up. At one point, FBI Director Louis Freeh called the Seattle office for an update but gave up trying to get through. 
 
 When Humphries finally found a phone, he contacted the bureau's Hazardous Materials Team in Quantico, Va., and asked for specialists to join him. And he began digging for details on the mysterious Benni Noris. Noris had no criminal history in Canada and had never been to the U.S., according to a review of Canadian and U.S. databases. 
 
 The next day, Humphries drove to Port Angeles with two HazMat agents and set up a post at the Port Angeles airport. There, he took a call from an FBI agent based in Ottawa, the Canadian capital. The Ottawa agent had been given a photograph by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service that might match Humphries' mysterious Mr. Noris. 
 
 The agent faxed over the photo, saying only: "If this is your guy, you've got trouble." No explanation; no name. 
 
 Humphries took the picture to the Clallam County Jail. The suspect looked drawn, with dark rings under his eyes. But Humphries found his resemblance to the photo unmistakable. 
 
 The man before him was not Benni Noris. But who was he? 
 
 
 
 ||||| By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer 
 
 Posted: Nov 14, 2012 01:30 PM 
 
 TAMPA — The socialite whose friendship with CIA director David Petraeus touched off a sex scandal that led to his resignation had an ID issued by MacDill Air Force Base allowing her daytime visits to the base whenever she desired. 
 
 The ID first issued to Jill Kelley in November 2010 was revoked on Tuesday pending a Pentagon investigation, MacDill officials say. 
 
 The ID is one of about 800 issued by MacDill's 6th Air Mobility Wing in a program called Friends of MacDill, which allows select civilians who pass a background check to visit MacDill without being accompanied by someone with a military ID. 
 
 The wing serves as something akin to a landlord for other commands at the base, including U.S. Central Command. Petraeus was CentCom's chief from 2008 to 2010. The wing is in charge of base security, and its armed personnel stand watch at MacDill's entry gates. 
 
 The program was launched in late 2010 by Col. Lenny Richoux, former wing commander who now serves in Europe. 
 
 Kelley obtained the ID four months after Petraeus left CentCom in June 2010 to take command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. His deputy commander, Marine Gen. John Allen, served as CentCom's acting chief for six weeks after Petraeus' departure. 
 
 Kelley's pass was renewed in February 2012. 
 
 Allen is himself ensnared in the controversy surrounding Kelley and Petraeus. The Pentagon is investigating emails between Allen and Kelley that may have been inappropriate, according to published reports. 
 
 In a recent interview with the Tampa Bay Times, the wing's current commander, Col. Scott DeThomas, described Friends of MacDill as a successful program allowing civilians to visit MacDill's two golf courses, eat at one of several restaurants or go bowling, among other activities. 
 
 DeThomas said ID holders "tend to be very active on base." 
 
 Richoux told the Times last year that one of the rationales for the program, aside from forging beneficial ties to the community, is to help generate revenue for MacDill's recreational outlets. 
 
 "Some people have told me they've lived their whole lives in Tampa and never set foot on the base," Richoux said last year. "They always wondered about what happens here. So I said, 'Well, come on down and see. This is federal property. This belongs to you.' " 
 
 The program was by invitation only, and Richoux said he had invited Tampa Bay area business and civic leaders. 
 
 Pass holders are fingerprinted and undergo a background check. Some high-security areas of MacDill are off limits and visits are limited to daylight hours. 
 
 Timm Sweeney, who runs an international marketing and research firm in Tampa, told the Times last year that the program builds goodwill for the base in Tampa. 
 
 "MacDill has a very good vetting process," he said. "It's not like they're just inviting any crazy on the base." 
 
 Richoux said Friends of MacDill was approved by Air Force officials, and he said that he also sought the approval and advice of officials at CentCom and U.S. Special Operations Command, which also is located at MacDill. 
 
 MacDill declined to release the names of the people on the access list. 
 
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 - Top ranked pages (up to a max of 100) from every linked-to domain using the Wide00012 inter-domain navigational link graph ||||| DOVER, Fla. — The F.B.I. agent who spurred the investigation that led to the resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director is a “hard-charging” veteran who helped investigate the foiled millennium terrorist plot in 1999, colleagues said on Wednesday. 
 
 The agent, Frederick W. Humphries II, 47, is also described by former colleagues as relentless in his pursuit of what he sees as wrongdoing, which appears to describe his role in the F.B.I. investigation involving Mr. Petraeus. Suspecting that the case involved serious security issues and was being stalled, possibly for political reasons — a suspicion his superiors say was unjustified — he took his concerns to Congressional Republicans. 
 
 “Fred is a passionate kind of guy,” one former colleague said. “He’s kind of an obsessive type. If he locked his teeth onto something, he’d be a bulldog.” 
 
 The question of how and why the F.B.I. opened the investigation that has had such momentous consequences has been central from the moment Mr. Petraeus stepped down Friday. The emerging portrait of the agent who initiated the inquiry is another step toward an answer. 
 
 Mr. Humphries, who was identified on Wednesday by law enforcement colleagues, took the initial complaint from Jill Kelley, a Tampa woman active in local military circles and a personal friend, about anonymous e-mails that accused her of inappropriately flirtatious behavior toward Mr. Petraeus. 
 
 The subsequent cyberstalking investigation uncovered an extramarital affair between Mr. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, his biographer, who agents determined had sent the anonymous e-mails. It also ensnared Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, after F.B.I. agents discovered what a law enforcement official said on Wednesday were sexually explicit e-mail exchanges between him and Ms. Kelley. 
 
 A spokesman for Ms. Kelley provided her version of events in two conference calls with reporters on Wednesday. Ms. Kelley’s concern when she took the e-mails to Mr. Humphries was that she feared the sender was “stalking” Mr. Petraeus and General Allen, said the spokesman, who asked not to be identified. 
 
 “She asks the agent, ‘What do you make of this?’ ” the spokesman said. “The agent said: ‘This is serious. They seem to know the comings and goings of a couple of generals.’ ” 
 
 General Allen himself had received a similar anonymous e-mail message, sent by someone identified as “kelleypatrol,” advising him to stay away from Ms. Kelley. The general forwarded it to Ms. Kelley, and they discussed a concern that someone was cyberstalking them. 
 
 On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said he had asked the Senate to postpone a confirmation hearing for General Allen’s next assignment while the department’s inspector general reviewed his e-mail correspondence with Ms. Kelley, which was discovered by F.B.I. agents investigating her initial complaint. 
 
 Pentagon officials said the review covered more than 10,000 pages of documents that included “inappropriate” messages. But associates of General Allen have said that the two exchanged about a dozen e-mails a week since meeting two years ago and that his messages were affectionate but platonic. 
 
 A law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, disputed that assertion on Wednesday, saying some messages were clearly sexual. Investigators were confident “the nature of the content warranted passing them on” to the inspector general, the official said. 
 
 In a statement on Wednesday, General Allen’s military counsel said he intended to cooperate fully with the inspector general’s investigation. “To the extent there are questions about certain communications by General Allen, he shares in the desire to resolve those questions as completely and quickly as possible,” said the statement from Col. John G. Baker, the chief defense counsel of the Marine Corps.
– And now the cast of characters in the David Petraeus scandal is a bit more complete: The FBI agent whose investigation into emails sent to his pal Jill Kelley eventually exposed the whole sordid mess has been identified by the New York Times as 47-year-old Frederick Humphries. Career highlight: He helped foil the 1999 millennium bombing plot. (An old Seattle Times story has details, along with photos of him.) Quote that explains a lot: “Fred is a passionate kind of guy," says an ex-colleague. "He’s kind of an obsessive type. If he locked his teeth onto something, he’d be a bulldog.” About that shirtless photo: Yes, he sent such a photo to Kelley years ago, but it was harmless fun, says his lawyer. “It was sent as part of a larger context of what I would call social relations in which the families would exchange numerous photos of each other." Meanwhile, CNN reports that Paula Broadwell has lost the security clearance she had before the scandal broke. The development comes after the Pentagon revoked a special ID held by Kelley that enabled her to visit MacDill Air Force Base without a military escort, notes the Tampa Bay Times.