FBI agents searched the home of Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with former General David H. Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director. Four or five agents carried out a search on both floors of her North Carolina home for nearly four hours.
Shelley Lynch, a spokeswoman for FBI's Charlotte, North Carolina, field office confirmed that the investigating agents went to Broadwell's home; however, declined to elaborate what the agents were doing there.
FBI agents were seen at Broadwell's home Monday night carrying the kinds of cardboard boxes often used for evidence gathering during a search, a National Post report said. The agents were seen taking photographs of the house and the garage.
"I see agents snapping photographs in 1st floor room of Paula Broadwell home. They brought in large evidence boxes, huge black duffel bags," the Examiner quoted a tweet from a witness.
Meanwhile, another top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, has come under the investigation for inappropriate communication with Jill Kelley, a long-time friend of the Petraeus family. It was Kelley's complaint about harassing emails from Broadwell, with who Petraeus had an affair, that prompted an FBI investigation that led to the "once highly respected" U.S. general's resignation. It is not clear whether the 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails that Allen sent to Kelley involved sexual matters or unauthorized disclosures of classified information.
Petraeus stepped down as CIA chief last Friday after acknowledging his extramarital affair with his biographer Broadwell. However, the scandal attracted much media attention and public interest after new revelations suggested it would include many names and a larger plot.
