It's Gonna Be Another Long Four Years

UPDATE: I'm going to change my remark that the FBI would have had to have a court order to say they MAY have to - I'm not at all sure. Warrantless wiretapping and data mining is part of our loss of civil liberties under Bush and Obama.  But it does appear that the DOJ knew about the investigation last summer.


Nutjob and House Homeland Security Chair Peter King thinks Obama knew about the Petraeus affair. I'm inclined to agree.   King's right that the FBI would have had to get a court order to look at the emails and if Eric Holder knew – which he undoubtedly did – Obama knew. They didn't want this coming out until after the election, and in that case, I'd think the FBI had to be complicit there. Well, the fact that the director of the FBI supposedly didn't tell Obama is either total bullshit or grounds for his retirement, too.

Let's face it. Obama knew.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) criticized the FBI’s handling of the investigation of the extramarital affair that resulted in CIA Director David Petraeus’ resignation. “To have someone out there in such a sensitive position who the FBI thought perhaps could have been compromised or was under the scope of an FBI investigation who may or may not have been having an affair at the time, that, to me had to have been brought to the president, certainly to the National Security Council,” King told MSNBC host Joe Scarborough Monday. “If not, the FBI was derelict in its duty.”

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“This is a crisis, I believe, of major proportions,” King said. “This is not your usual political thing — we’re not talking about a Secretary of Commerce or some undersecretary somewhere.”

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According to CNN [...] at least one FBI employee told Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) and House majority leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) about the probe last month.

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The New York Times reported Monday that FBI and Justice Department officials were notified about the investigation into the affair as far back as last summer, but did not push the issue further up the chain of command in part because worries over possible security breaches “did not appear to be justified.”

  Raw Story

So now the FBI and DOJ make that decision? It's my understanding that when a spy organization wants to compromise intelligence security, one of the tricks in their bag is to get a woman into the target's bed. Doesn't that automatically count as a possible breach?

And back up.  Two Republicans knew last month and didn't say anything???  Why didn't the Republican party want this to come out before the election?

Maybe this whole thing really is about nothing more than a very unwise – to say the least – affair, but I wouldn't bet your life on it.

I'd advocate disbanding the CIA if all the players wouldn't just melt into one of our other fascist agencies. Might as well have them fighting each other instead. It may at least hamper their murderous and corrupt schemes both domestic and international.