I don’t watch Homeland so don’t know the reference but here is one synopsis from Facebook:
OK, so Petreus was having an affair with Broadwell, his truly devoted biographer. Kelley was having an affair with another general, Allen (probably). Broadwell aparently knew about it and Kelley was getting closer to Petreus. Noticing this, and probably fearing that she’d lose her man to this femme fatale, Broadwell starts sending harassing emails to Allen.
Allen gets freaked-out and contacts the shirtless-FBI agent, who had apparently, in a plot right out of Homeland, become obsessed with Kelley, and was sending her shirtless photo’s of himself before she ever told him about the harassing emails.
He notified the cyber-crime unti at the FBI who quickly noticed his Carrie-like antics from Homeland and told him to disasscoaite himself from the case. In another Homeland similarity, he continues to work the case on the periphery. even though told not to. Falsly believing the case has stalled, thinking that the FBI may be stalling on purpose to help President Obama, total right-wing nuttery worthy only of FOX (it certainly would have had no implications on the election which was determined by math, demographics and the mobilizing of voters in key swing-states), shirtless FBI agent contacts Eric Cantor’s office, who then callls the head of the FBI with shirtless FBI agent’s concerns.
So there you have it. Petreus is having an affair with Broadwell, Kelley is having an affair (probably) with Allen, Broadwell thinks Kelley is setting her sights on her beau, Petreus, so she harasses her, leading to Kelley turning to previously obsessed shirtless FBI agent for help. Shritless FBI agent gets told to stand down, but he won’t and in his right-wing zealotry, sends message to Republican majority House Leader, Cantor for help, since this is all about Obama (as is everything in too-far-gone right-wing world).
So that’s it. So far. Stay tuned.
And you thought Homeland was nutty.
I doubt it.
"Allen gets freaked-out and contacts the shirtless-FBI agent, who had apparently, in a plot right out of Homeland, become obsessed with Kelley, and was sending her shirtless photo’s of himself before she ever told him about the harassing emails."
Excellent analysis overall, except for two points:
1. Broadwell's e-mails were clearly directed at Jill Kelley saying IIRC "Who do you think you are, parading around the base. Tone it down." That is not what Paula Broadwell would have written to the Centcom Commander!
2. The report today is that Jill Kelley knew the “shirtless FBI agent” previously from “an encounter” (some kind of investigation) and that the shirtless episode occurred in the past after that previous encounter, but before the recent events and Jill's involvement with Gen. Allen, IIRC.
So the FBI was drawn in by Jill Kelley, not Gen. Allen. So the excruciating irony is that Jill brought the house down on herself.