Thursday, November 15, 2012

Shirtless photo sent by FBI investigator in Patraeus scandal to Jill Kelley: self-effacing joke emailed to dozens of others, too, including a reporter

The Seattle Times has published the gag photo, entitled
"Which one is Fred" sent by 47-year-old FBI agent
Frederick W. Humphries, posing between two shooting
range dummies, to Jill Kelley and several others,
including a Seattle Times reporter.
Reports of a shirtless photo sent by an FBI agent to Tampa Socialite Jill Kelley, who instigated an FBI investigation of harassing emails sent anonymously to her by Gen. David Patraeus paramour Paula Broadwell, sounded much worse than they turned out to be.
     The picture was a self-mocking gag sent to dozens of others, including a reporter, and Jill Kelley was a family friend.
     The Seattle Times reports:
Kelley, a family friend, first contacted Humphries about the emails, according to Humphries and news reports. Humphries referred Kelley's complaint to the bureau's cybercrime unit and was not directly involved in the investigation, according to the sources...
     Humphries, 47, confirmed the photograph exists and was sent to Kelley and dozens of other friends and acquaintances in the fall of 2010, shortly after Humphries had transferred to the Tampa office from Guantánamo Bay, where he had been an FBI liaison to the CIA at the detention facility there.
     Indeed, among his friends and associates, Humphries was known to send dumb-joke emails in which the punch line was provided by opening an attached photo.

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