PARTY PEOPLE: Socialite Jill Kelley, here with husband Scott, was warned about her e-mails to Gen. John Allen. (AP)
HOLE-Y MEN: FBI agent Frederick Humphries II sent out this now-notorious picture of himself with shooting-range dummies. (The Seattle Times)
What a dummy!
The bald, buff FBI agent who helped bring down Gen. David Petraeus showed about the same intelligence as his bullet-riddled buddies when he e-mailed this photo to his Florida socialite pal, Jill Kelley.
“Which one’s Fred?” Frederick Humphries II wrote in the goofy message that included the photo taken at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
He sent the grinning shot of himself posing between the two firing-range dummies to dozens of friends in 2010, including military hanger-on Kelley.
Earlier this year, Kelley touched off the Petraeus probe when she told Humphries she received harassing e-mails from someone warning her to stay away from her friend Petraeus.
The FBI traced the messages to Petraeus’ biographer, Paula Broadwell, who was having an affair with the CIA director.
Humphries told the Seattle Times he sent the bare-chested photo as a “tongue-in-cheek joke” following a “hard workout” with a SWAT team. It was not meant to be sexual, he said.
The G-man is being investigated by the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility for sending the picture, interfering in the Petraeus probe and telling a Washington congressman last month the feds were dragging their feet.
His pal Kelley became a focus of the probe when agents found hundreds of “flirtatious” and “inappropriate” e-mails between her and Marine Gen. John Allen, the top commander of US forces in Afghanistan.
Kelley served as a “social liaison” to military brass in Tampa — but she was barred from MacDill after the scandal.
Meanwhile, ABC News reported that Kelley had asked a New York businessman for $80 million to help him facilitate a deal with South Korea.
Adam Victor, President of TransGas Development Systems, said he met Kelley at the GOP convention in Tampa, and told her about his planned $4 billion deal. She told him that Petraeus had made her an honorary consul to South Korea — and offered her services.
But he said he told her no thanks when she asked for the huge amount of money.
“Ms. Kelley made it clear to me that Petraeus put her in this position and that’s why she was able to have access to such senior levels [of the Korean government],” Victor told ABC News.
“. . . Frankly, I blame Gen. Petraeus for this as a lapse of judgment. The general should have known better.”
Another Tampa military liaison, Mark Rosenthal, told the Tampa Bay Times that he saw the “loud, ostentatious” Kelley at numerous events where she flirted with, hugged and kissed top brass.
Rosenthal said that Gen. Allen’s wife complained to his own wife about e-mails Allen was getting from Kelley.
Rosenthal said he repeatedly called her, demanding “not to send any more e-mails.”
“It was ridiculous. Who the hell is she? These guys are protecting the world,” he said.