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http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2012/11/13/white-house-veil-secrecy

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HANNITY: Well, to what extent do you think this is connected to Benghazi? Because for example, why now? Petraeus was supposed to testify this week.

CHAFFETZ: Yeah, it’s so suspicious. There — it’s not a coincidence to me. He is probably the one that knows most about what happened or didn’t happen in Benghazi. And if this is looming over his head when he went to go brief the United States Senate, did that influence the way, the direction and the story that he told? Because a lot of senators don’t believe he was telling the truth, then. This begs more questions than it answers.

HANNITY: It does.

All right, Ron Kessler, you knew October 10 that this had taken place?

KESSLER: Yes. I was still working on getting more corroboration, but the agent who gave me this information said that the decision had been made, even though they knew way back in the spring that this affair was going on, to hold off until after the election, and that’s exactly what happened, to hold off...

HANNITY: Well, who made that decision? Do we know yet?

KESSLER: Well, it certainly went up to Bob Mueller, it went into the Justice Department, according to this agent. I’m quite sure that President Obama knew about it and gave the order. There was no other reason why they would have withheld this.

You know, I was told by an FBI agent at a high level, if this had been uncovered involving a high level FBI executive, he would have been out the door the same day, they wouldn’t have left him in office, that’s absurd. And yet, he was in office from the spring until October. And then just by coincidence Obama’s told two days after the election? I mean, it’s so transparent that this is a big cover-up.

And the real issue, as you mentioned, is the blackmail issue. And that is Russian foreign intelligence criminals, if they had gotten on to this affair, would have used it as blackmail against Petraeus to get our biggest secrets, and that’s why with the security clearance you’re not supposed to compromise yourself in this way.