Jill Kelley requested "diplomatic protection" in 911 call

Jill Kelley requested "diplomatic protection" in 911 call

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Media outside of the Kelleys' house on Tuesday. Media outside of the Kelleys' house on Tuesday.
The vehicles at the Kelley house have "honorary consul" license plates. We've obscured the numbers in this image. The vehicles at the Kelley house have "honorary consul" license plates. We've obscured the numbers in this image.
TAMPA (FOX 13) -

The South Tampa woman connected to the Gen. David Petraeus scandal has called police to her home several times in the last few days, and at least once tried to invoke "diplomatic protection."

Media from around the world have convened on the two-story Bayshore Boulevard home of Scott and Jill Kelley.  Jill is the socialite mother of three whose FBI complaint about harassing emails eventually led investigators to uncover the CIA director's affair with his biographer and is now linked to the name of a second top general. 

The Kelleys have kept a low profile since news of the scandal broke, and had to request police help to chase people from their yard.

Two 911 calls were made from the Kelleys' home on Sunday.  In the first recording, a man whose name was redacted says there is someone at the door who won't leave his property.  The second caller, who identifies herself as Jill, says there's someone lurking in their yard.

As the call ends, she makes an apparent reference to her role at MacDill Air Force Base, which the Associated Press has described as an "unpaid social liaison."

"You know, I don't know if by any chance, because I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability, so they should not be able to cross my property.  I don't know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well," she told the 911 dispatcher, who agreed to pass the information along to police.

Three more calls were made to police on Monday, all to the non-emergency number.  In each one, the caller identified herself as Jill Kelley, reporting trespassers on the property.

"They're trying to push the door open; they won't leave," she says in one call.

"Are you sure you don't know who these people are?" the dispatcher asks her.

"I do not know who they are, no," she insists.

Tuesday, the house remained quiet aside from the media circus.  A woman could be seen inside the home's large bay windows, but it was not clear if it was Jill or her twin sister.

According to retired Colonel E.J. Otero, Jill Kelley doesn't qualify for diplomatic protection.

"It is not possible at all. Diplomatic immunity, diplomatic protection is only given to American personnel. Diplomatic personnel in foreign countries," he said.

Otero says Kelley's title was honorary, given by the Coalition Village at MacDill. He compared it to an honorary doctorate, stating that does not make an individual a physician.

"So (Kelley's honorary title) has no value, no legal protection, no legal authority," he said.

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