In addition, why was the FBI, a domestic police agency, involved in an overseas terrorism case?
That has been explained. Kelly went to the FBI about embarrassing EMAILs from Broadwell.
Why?
Patraeus was going to testify exactly on what happened in Libya. Obama and his minions got to him, but perhaps he will have the last laugh since he went public.
I’m wondering if anyone at the FBI investigates our president?
The bottom line is this. Will he do the manly thing and now tell the truth or cower?
The whole story about Libya is dirty. I suspect it includes gun running for the Syrian rebels thru Turkey and a whole lot of other things.
But everyone wants to know the answer to one question. Did our president make a decision to do nothing in the face of the attack, sacrificing our people, to assure his reelection?
Because the United States is no longer under the rule of law, it is under the rule of Ubama, where anything goes as long as the net result is Ubama gets what he wants.
Maybe investigating security breaches that violate federal law? I think that would fall under FBI jurisdiction.
SnakeDoc
Why not? CIA employees are Federal employees. Why should they be exempt? It’snot like the CIA has any sort of reputation for ethical conduct. I’d bet that a thorough independent investigation would land a sizable proportion of CIA employees in jail.
Of course you could say that for any govt agency.
The FBI got involved first, because Kelly has a friend in the FBI, and she told him about this "cyberstalking" crap. Following that, "cyberstalking" is within the FBI's jurisdiction. Likely not solely within the FBI's jurisdiction, but still, it is something the FBI is allowed to pursue, under 47 USC 223, Obscene or harassing telephone calls in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communications.
When the FBI got involved, it was not investigating Petraeus, at all.
The FBI should have been investigating a nominee to any Cabinet-level office...what amazes me is how deep the investigation was...one has to wonder if red flags were going up at the CIA and what, if anything, the CIA was telling its new boss about that investigation.
Personally, this whole thing reeks of a trap set by Chicago thugs....a very powerful and competent potential political adversary is nominated to a high-level post, at about that sametime or just a little before he is introduced to a woman who has never written a book before, to do a biography of an important figure in the last decade with respect to our war againt terror...and they just “happen” to have an affair? No....Obama’s cronie set a trap, and the General was stupid enough to allow himself to get ensared in it. What was allmthis is for though....what was the grand plan that they are now covering up?
Perhaps Petraeus told the the White House he wouldn’t lie under oath to cover for them and they decided, with the help of the MSM, to destroy his reputation in the hopes of destroying his credibility.
Everything is a smoke screen to cover the Marxist’s failed Benghazi role.
Something else, far worse, is happening. This is a distraction.
Let’s say you were a prez who just stole an election in a country with a very long history of, “real democracy” —what would you then do..?
You would lessen the chances of a COUP, that’s what you would do.
And I think that’s what we’re seeing.
Let’s say you were a prez who just stole an election in a country with a very long history of, “real democracy” —what would you then do..?
You would lessen the chances of a COUP, that’s what you would do.
And I think that’s what we’re seeing.
***“There is something going on here,” apart from the sexual peccadilloes.***
This is clear. There’s a broader agenda and goal at work here. I think it is broader than Benghazi as well.
It is about consolidation of leftist control of our most important governmental departments, bureaucracies and institutions.
Ed Morrissey starts right off with a total logical impossibility: Piers Morgan is not capable of asking an interesting question, even accidentally.
Petraeus had to go when it was discovered it was a heterosexual affair.
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Fact One:
1) Only the POTUS can authorize a CBA (cross border authority) command for a rescue mission in a foreign nation.
Plus Fact Two:
2) No rescue mission was attempted.
Equals Fact Three:
3) 0bama turned his back on 41 State Dept. and CIA employees refusing to issue a CBA command and went to bed so he could go to Las Vegas the next day.
Don’t want to dampen excitement, but part of the FBI’s portfolio is counter-espionage. That might be a hint that there’s more to this than the public story, but not necessarily. Affairs and seductions are so common in real spy cases that one would hope it’s S.O.P. for the FBI to investigate alleged affairs involving CIA directors, to eliminate the possiblity.