What Happens When The Press Tells Only Part Of The Truth

Recently we heard that the FBI Agent investigating the threatening e-mails sent to Jill Kelley was taken off the case because he had become enamored of Ms. Kelley and sent her a shirtless photograph of himself. There was some truth in that lie, but the story behind the lie is just now beginning to come out. Did anyone wonder why threatening e-mails got the attention of the FBI rather than local law enforcement? Well, it seems as if the Kelley family and the family of Frederick Humphries (the FBI agent taken off the case) had a social relationship. It would not have been odd for Ms. Kelley to ask his opinion of the e-mails as he was a family friend. Now, about the shirtless picture…

Today’s New York Daily News posted the picture in question. This is the picture: 	This undated photograph obtained by The Seattle Times shows FBI Special Agent Frederick W. Humphries posing with target dummies following a SWAT practice in an unknown location. The Times says Humphries sent the photograph to friend and Florida socialite Jill Kelley and others, including one of the paper's own reporters, in an email Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Special to The Seattle Times)

It should be noted that the picture was sent in 2010 by Agent Humphries to dozens of his friends. Smile, we have all been snookered.

So what was really going on here? The New York Times posted an article on Tuesday detailing some of Agent Humphries past work:

Two former law enforcement colleagues said Mr. Humphries was a solid agent with experience in counterterrorism. He has conservative political views and a reputation for being aggressive, they said.

Colleagues and news reports described the role of Mr. Humphries, who in 1999 was in his third year at the F.B.I., in building the case against Ahmed Ressam, who was detained as he tried to enter the United States from Canada with a plan to set off a bomb at Los Angeles International Airport.

In May 2010, after he had moved to the Tampa field office, Mr. Humphries fatally shot a knife-wielding man near a gate of MacDill Air Force base. A state prosecutor declined to prosecute the case, and the Justice Department’s civil rights division and an internal F.B.I. review board each also found that the use of force had been justified, according to bureau records.

So why were two-year old joke pictures dragged out and made to be something they weren’t?

The New York Times further reports:

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.

When Agent Humphries suspected that the FBI was stalling the investigation possibly due to political reasons, he took his concerns to Congressional Republicans. That was when things began to get complicated.

So what probably happened here? The assumption can be made that the Eric Holder and the Justice knew about the Petraeus affair as far back as last summer. You can draw your own conclusions as to whether or not Eric Holder chose to share this information with President Obama. Remember, President Obama claims he did not know about the affair until the day after the election. Had Agent Humphries continued his investigation, he might have upset the Administration’s plans to use the affair as leverage against General Petraeus (which I believe they did).

There is nothing about the attack on Benghazi that does not reek of cover-up, lies, and misinformation. The shame is that the four men who died in the attack are innocent victims not only of an Al Qaeda attack, but of a totally dishonest administration.

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