One of the odd subplots in the Petraeus story is the decision of Gens. Petraeus and Gen. Allen to intervene in the intense custody dispute between Jill Kelley’s sister Natalie and her estranged husband Grayson P. Wolfe. Wolfe turns out to be a former Bush administration official who worked in Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad (Bremer’s outfit) opening Iraq up to private sector investment. Read More
Earlier today we learned that Jill Kelley, the ridiculous person at the center of the Petraeus scandal, had called police over the weekend to shoo people off her lawn and in the process invoked her “diplomatic inviolability” to bewildered police officers. At first I assumed that this was some nonsensical immunity claim to her honorary role as “social liaison” at Centcom in Tampa.
But this was premature. Read More
So in addition to the thing with the shirtless FBI agent, helping bring down Gen. Petraeus and now maybe Gen. Allen, Jill Kelley also has what appears to be a phony cancer charity.
But it gets better. Read More
Karl Rove: GOP needs to copy Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy.
Arizona Republicans sue to block ballots in Latino precinct.
Have questions about ‘Anonymous’, the hacking collective that made such a big and (I would argue) destructive splash across the Internet over the last year? (People associated with Anonymous actually took down TPM in late 2011.) Our Carl Franzen has been covering the story for the last year and has broken such great stories on it. He’s doing his first Live Chat right now at TPMPrime. Get your questions in now.
Derrick Belcher, a 45 year-old topless carwash owner, is behind the Alabama petition to secede from the Union to resist Democratic party values.
TPM IdeaLab’s Carl Franzen will be doing his first Live Chat at TPMPrime this afternoon at 4 PM Eastern. He’ll be discussing ‘Anonymous’ hacking, the future of online mapping and the the open source project OpenStreetMap, TPMIdeaLab and more. Get your questions in now.
Seems like Gallup is somewhere between the denial and anger phase in dealing with grief and loss over its 2012 polling.