It was not until Tuesday that the Justice Department notified James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, that compromising material about Petraeus had been uncovered as part of an investigation, according to a senior intelligence official. Clapper then spoke with Petraeus and told him to resign.“Director Clapper learned of the situation from the FBI on Tuesday evening around 5 p.m.,” the intelligence official said. “In subsequent conversations with Director Petraeus, Director Clapper advised Director Petraeus to resign.”
Other sources say the investigation had been going for months. And we're to believe the WH wasn't informed until Election Day??
That quote says the Justice Dept. notified intelligence on Tuesday. Didn’t say how long Holder sat on the info.
But it is important that stupid old WaPo is venturing into the fray. If they become part of the mob, they will be dragged along even if they didn't originally plan to participate in this story.
How many of these scandals happen daily that we never hear about? This thing could have been contained. The rationale that the White House and DNI might use on the FBI, would be that only minor crimes were committed, that Petraeus was irreplaceable, that the scandal would impact the morale of the CIA, and be an international embarrassment. Obama’s first term has been full of scandals that barely reached the surface because the administration stonewalls and the news media sticks its head in the sand. In the case of Petraeus the DNI told him to resign just before the story was fed to the media.
The WaPo is spreading disinformation about this. This article makes it seem like this all developed in the last 2 weeks. This is false. Everyone needs to check out the NewsMax article on this from yesterday when the story broke.
I think 0zer0 set Petraeus up from day one and the FBI had to know about this affair in real time. According to the article, the FBI suspected the issue in the Spring 2011. Petraeus was commander in Afghanistan at that time. 0zer0 appointed Petraeus to CIA in April 2011, but he didn’t assume the office until Sep 2011.
The article says the FBI was investigating this for months because Petraeus was sending thousands of emails to her. That had to be in 2011. This means that the FBI had to know what was going on in real time, probably as Petraeus was being vetted for the CIA post, and certainly before he was confirmed, and that is why they couldn’t believe 0zer0 wouldn’t fire this guy, let alone hire the guy.
I don’t see any explanation other than 0zer0 knew about this (or someone high up in the admin did, and didn’t tell anyone... FBI director Mueller had to know, and that means Holder had to know, and probably National Security Director Donolon). That means 0zer0 had to know, and is lying about this when the WH says they first found out about it Wednesday after the election.
I bet 0zer0 knew Petraeus was compromised when he appointed him and counted on this trump card to be used against Petraeus when he needed it, and Benghazi is it. The timeline proves it.
Whether Petraeus has any smoking gun information and will spill it is completely unknown. But for me, I am convinced that 0zer0 knew about the affair and deliberately appointed and retained an obviously compromised CIA director to have something to blackmail him with later. This explains why a compromised CIA director was ok to appoint and retain for over a year, but now a year after the affair, is a liability only because Benghazi is hitting the fan. This confirms everything you need to know about 0zer0.