Why wasn't the Republican leadership informed by the FBI? I see this as Cantor not quite calling Obama to say we know what a mess you have on your hands, by calling the FBI director first. Might well be that nothing was going to happen until the whistle-blower let the Republicans know the inside scoop at the CIA.
The FBI director was appointed by Bush.
Because the FBI was keeping the story under wraps at Ubanga/Holder's direction until after the election. They didn't want the Republican leadership to find out. Hence, a "whistle-blower" stepped in precisely to let the Republican leadership in on the story. And Cantor responded by (apparently) keeping the info to himself and letting the FBI know that it had a whistle-blower on its hands!
Do folks understand that this is totally f'in NSANE? The first problem is that this whistle blower leaked sensitive investigative information to Congress for political purposes. How about we have the FBI go through your life and report your teen-age antics to your congressman for further processing?
This is why we have laws against this sort of thing. Short of actual criminal evidence or evidence of a genuine security compromise, this kind of investigative information should have gone absolutely nowhere and this idiot needs to go to jail.
This is not whistle-blowing. This is leaking sensitive personal information that is frankly none of anyone else's business.