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Rep. Peter King Has Some Serious Questions About How the Petraeus Scandal Was Handled: ‘This Just Doesn’t Add Up’

Nov. 12, 2012 8:11am Jonathon M. Seidl

GOP Rep. Peter King (NY) is raising some serious questions about the way the investigation of former CIA Director David Petraeus’s affair with his biographer was investigated and handled. On Sunday, he told CNN’s Candy Crowley that there’s a lot that “just doesn’t add up.”

“I have questions about the whole mater,” the head of the Homeland Security Committee said. “First of all I’m wondering how something involving emails went to the level of the FBI, how the FBI could have been investigating it this long, … to me if it was, the FBI director had the obligation to tell the president or the National Security Council at the earliest state. So it seems this has been going on for several months, and yet now it appears that they’re saying that the FBI didn’t realize until election day that General Petraeus was involved.”

“It just doesn’t add up,” he concluded. “You have this type of investigation, the FBI investigating emails, the emails leading to the CIA director, and it taking four months to find out that the CIA director was involved.”

“So I have real questions about this,” he added. “I think a timeline has to be looked at and analyzed to see what happened.”

When Crowley asked King what, exactly, he was suggesting, he explained:

“I’m suggesting there are a lot of unanswered questions. I think the FBI has to come forward and tell exactly when they began the investigation, why it reached that level, when they first realized that Gen. Petraeus might be involved, and at the time they did realize he was involved, did they go to the White House, did they go to the National Security Council. … How the FBI got involved, how long it was going on, did they get a court order, was there a federal court order for this email surveillance, what was contained in that order, when did they realize that it possibly involved the CIA director.”

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EqualJustice
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:21am
Nothing this corrupt administration does ADDS up. They take years to bring their OWN before ethics committees, then “EXCUSE” their corrupt behavior? Or they just keep telling lies and ignoring the crime until it just FADES AWAY like Fast and Furious. Maxine Waters is now head of that committee? Lord help us!

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:00pm
  DOES THE ELECTION MAKE SENSE?
  
  What did the UN observers say about the election results?
  
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chkiaar
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:16am
Well, if it looks like a skunk, smells like a skunk and acts like a skunk I don’t need a timeline to tell me it’s a skunk.

These Dems that were shocked and in awe over what happened /w GEN(R) Petraeus were the same ones calling him GEN BeTrayUs 6-7 yrs ago in Iraq. This is nothing but tyranny, er revenge, sorry, I mean Chicago Politics in action. To quote The Gratefull Dead, “set up like a bowling pin. Knocked down, you can never win.” All that happened was another Military General was taken down by the Rolling Stone Magazine, I mean some type of media.
I look for suicides to begin entering the picture. The boy king has a ways to go to beat Bill’s 5 page list.

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neverending
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:13am
So Congressman King will start the investigtion so they can ask lots of questions that probably won’t be answered but gotta make sure this never happens again all the while crap like this is ongoing. Just same old, same old. Just beyond sickening.

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DadRocked
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:55am
“It’s a tragedy and awful…” “The timing is curious…” “It’s a loss of his level…”
Hey, I respect Rep. King but these are just politicians double speek… Get to the meat and potatoes.

It is now over two months since the Benghazi massacre. Not an incident. An attack on U.S. sovereignty with casualties.

- What was he doing there after over six months of it being deemed a hot zone,
- why were two guys forced to disobey orders to assist,
- why wasn’t back up on its way nor ordered to be sent,
- why the bad timeline,
- why the film was solicited as being an issue when there is now public docs refuting it,
- why this and why that… So many. Skip the politics already.
- why the coverup to include numerous generals, of major commands, retiring or reassignments.

We hate using the word hopefully but hopefully SC Rep Trey Gowdy and others of his caliber will attack and go for the hard things in this hopefully before this lame duck session.

You guys in Congress are less than 20 miles from my home. Can you hear me. Quit making us in the public speculate. GET the facts, and attack – attack – attack for answers.
Elections are over DO YOUR JOB !

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Verceofreason
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:54am
King has lost his creds a long time ago,
And is too far gone to even realize that.
It’s the same reason Allen West lost the election.
If the election demonstrated one thing, it’s that
the country is moving towards the center.

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- RRFlyer
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:08am
  voting for obama is NOT moving toward center
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:14am
  Voice of the White House: stuff it. We don’t buy any of your garbage.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:17am
  VOICE: oh, and your comments about King ? Stuff that Character Assassination Squad rhetoric also. We are tired of the smears, the lies, and the fraud of this administration.
  
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Truth4SureNuff
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:53am
I pray that the people of these United States of America are not so easily led.
This is an effort to distract us from the cover up of the Benghazi incident.

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Metallicat
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:51am
Nothing about Obama math ever adds up or seems to leave the equation solved. Theyve changed all the values, and get to dictate the values with any problem they face,so their answer always seems correct.

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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:50am
Let the impachment begin !!!

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- lildrummerboy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:16pm
  haha..hahahaha..wow thats funny….that should have been brought up 2 yrs ago.. a little late for that now…
  
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- donkeykong
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:59pm
  Clinton was impeached by Congress. What good did that do?
  We as a populace have fallen so far behind the 8-ball now
  that nothing short of a full-scale, REAL revolt, complete
  with guns and some of us dying in the process, can do
  the job. The corruption is now so ingrained into all levels
  of government that we can NEVER expect them to clean
  their own house. At some point, WE The People will need
  to do that for them.
  
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starman70
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:46am
The art of obfuscation is being played out right before our eyes. The real problem is BENGHAZI and who knew what and when and why 4 brave Americans were killed, without the administration lifting a finger. However if the administration can cloud the picture with other things, especially a sexual scandal, it can effectively smokescreen the real problem. This is obfuscation at its best. The Chicago gang are masters of this game.

CONGRESS, CONCENTRATE OF BENGHAZI!!!! Yes, the FBI may have been lax in telling Congress about the affair but let Petraeus and his wife settle the romantic affair between themselves.

AGAIN:

CONGRESS, CONCENTRATE ON BENGHAZI!! not the smokescreen!

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TerryJ70
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:43am
Congress has been bypassed on everything else this administration has done. Now rather than testifying, we are going to see Clinton leave, Panetta leave, and who else? Sounds to me like they are all afraid of the Chicago mob. My bet is on the mob.

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- barber2
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:18am
  The Chicago Mob …agree with you .
  
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legendarytwo
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:42am
Cry wolf! Wolf! Congress isn’t going to do anything about any of the corruption or treasonous offenses going on a daily basis in front of your face. This is what the republicans do, act like they care but they don’t. They are playing two parties against us gradually destroying our constitution. Impeachment proceedings would be going on right now if patriots were in Congress.

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- Metallicat
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:00am
  I’ve suspected for awhile now that the FBI is no longer an instrument of American justice, but now is a political arm of the Obama administration,like the KGB in Soviet Russia. They no longer work to protect Americans, only the Obama administration. What a disgrace.
  
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- PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:47am
  If the Rupublicains could of won the Senate then impeachment could happen but with the do nothing Senate we are screwed!
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:42am
The reason that it doesn’t add up is that the entire “scandal” is a hoax, created solely to deflect attention away from obama’s Benghazi cover-up. Petraeus is a key player in obama’s cover-up and his resignation was timed specifically to protect him from having to testify and to protect obama – Petraeus and obama have committed treason against the United States – they should be held accountable for their crimes, but, of course they won’t be.

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Thinman
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:40am
Doesn’t matter what they did, the Republicans are a neutered group, they cant defeat Jessie Jackson junior when he isn’t even present. They did nothing about “fast and furious”, they couldn’t beat the worst Pres in our history and they let Holder get away with whatever he wants. Face the sad truth people, the Republican party is dead!

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BookMDanno
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:38am
Of course it doesn’t add up. But honestly, do you freakin’ think that with Obama firmly entrenched in the W.H. for another 4, protected by a cabal of cut throat ideologues, the truth will ever ‘out’?…Look how long we’ve been waiting for Fast & Furious accountability! Putting it off another 4 should be no problem. You couldn’t write a fiction political thriller this believable.

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- barber2
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:14am
  Agree. This is no longer America with the Obama Administration in charge.
  
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justangry
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:34am
Meanwhile, over the past 90 days 6,125 new regulations have been proposed. Nah, a scandalous sex triangle is much more important.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:32am
Of course it does not add up as the story and timeline and all else changes by the hour, just as it still does with Benghazi. Emperor Caligula-Obama keeps changing the story based on his current narcissist view of the world and his sheer insanity.

All of the administration from Obama on down have to go; and how many more details will be ‘discovered’ (fabricated) to keep the good general silent?

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- drbage
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:51am
  Of course, it makes sense, they are just not telling us they are using Obamaian math where 1+1 does not equal two. Am waiting for the emperor to issue yet another fiat declaring executive privilege and classifying all the information. So the question then becomes will the sheeple in Congress just say oh, well and get back to buck passing and blame assigning or will they do their job? Was surprised that Candy Crowley yesterday didn’t jump full in with Rep. King yesterday and tell him that he was only interested in politicizing CIAgate. The second question will be whether the lamestream media jumps to the rescue and continues to gloss over all the failures and crimes of this regime. And the third and final question is whether the people will turn a blind eye, say whatever, and get in line for some Obamacash and an Obamaphone.
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:06am
  Something is rotten in Denmark.
  My son has above top secret security clearance and had to shut down his e-mail accounts, facebook page and cannot blog or have any e-communications on the www.
  
  Unless these “e-mails” are somehow internal communications on a secured closed network, how is it that the Director of the CIA is e-mailing? That in and of itself, if true, is a security breech and points to a very large systemic problem that goes beyond the scope of a guy having an affair. Something stinks.
  
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dublinthewagons
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:30am
Time to reboot our republic. Drain the swamp and get rid of the gators & bottom dwellers

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- taxpro4u03
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:24am
  Indeed — When we’re up to our azz in alligators it is difficult at times to remember our initial objective IS to drain the swamp. Find the plug, and PULL IT. Individuals have to do this, not the ‘collectives.’ One’s RIGHTS are non-delegable. PERIOD. ‘Lost’ at the ballot box — oky doky then — next phase…. JURY box… What’s keepin’ ya? :-) THAT is where the POWER is… Ask Judge Andrew Napolitano…. All we can do is POINT you to the information — what you DO with it is up to YOU. The bleating of the sheep never saved it from the knife. Cognitive dissonance is in and of itself a mental illness… Common Sense — USE IT!
  
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Dodsfall
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:29am
The administration will likely waffle between they didn’t know about it at all to they didn’t have all the facts. It’s their motus operandi when caught in a lie.

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- barber2
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:11am
  Think it is our time for Operation ” End Of Mot-us Operandi . “
  
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lookes2003
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:28am
I don’t care about any resignations, mistresses, or other drama. Only Benghazi matters. Don’t take your eyes off of the brass ring! The ONLY thing you need to know or remember is that Barack Obama KILLED four Americans in Benghazi. All else is just noise and cover up.

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- NOBAMASANDEE
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:49am
  Your ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!
  
  REMEMBER BENGHAZI!
  
  INVESTIGATE, INDICT, IMPRISION, IMPEACH, IGNORE!
  
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barber2
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:28am
This certainly is the Biggest Whopper out of the White House which has regaled us with them for 4 years ! This makes the Zimmerman / race relations media witch hunt , and the Fast and Furious gun/ border agent death look like an episode of Sesame Street. And even less believable. How many more American public servants and how many more American icons will die under this administration ?

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bikerdogred1
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:28am
The country is being run by a bunch of lying sleaze bags and the fools are going along with them{SHEEP].No one can think on their own anymore you have to let the government do your thinking.You fools are giving your freedom away.

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- BookMDanno
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:44am
  Doesn’t this mess remind you of another Dem administration–Clinton’s ? Isn’t it time to truck out the Liar-In-Chief to assure us that ‘he’ll get to the bottom of it’ ? Then have some Dem Congressman assure us they’ll ‘follow the truth wherever it takes us’ ? Don’t you sleep soundly knowing THESE guys are in charge for another 4 ? ‘Transparency’ my foot. The sheeple have spoken.
  
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Militiaofone
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:27am
What do you expect from Obama’s Home Boy?

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- poorrichard09
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:35am
  They are trying their best to have a stupid love affair overwhelm the REAL “crime” here-the debacle in Benghazi and the deaths of four Americans while 0webama and Co. WATCHED it happen.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:08am
  POOR: You nailed it : Obama’s Snooky- IQ base will eat this up. The girls on the View love a scandal. Stewart and Maher will have fun trashing the military. Stevens death and the cover-up ? Overlooked shortly by our Media savvy Obama people. WE WANT HIS TESTIMONY .
  
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barber2
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:25am
Read the comments in the Lefty New York Times . Guess what ? Most of them are for lynching Petraeus for lying, etc., while the White House remains innocent of all wrong doing. No concern over the Benghazi incident or his testimony. More concerned with his getting his pension ; was he doing this during his CIA time. Oh, and the FBI is at fault here too. Sounds like the Lefty Trolls are not only working the Blaze but the NYT in defending Obama Administration. My, those Media Matters styled funds were surely well spent. Now we have a new profession in America : spreading White House propaganda and cover-up 24/7 in the media. Talk about ” job creation.” You go, New Far Left Democrats, big capitalists that you are….not…

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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:23am
It is a shame that the Ambassador in Benghazi wasn’t having an affair. If he had been , then maybe the press would be investigating how he was murdered.

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SamIamTwo
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:19am
Yeah will better pray no one gets killed before testifying or it gets more weird/serious.

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- barber2
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:33am
  Watching the ongoing Obama Administration is like watching an episode of Homeland. This is VERY weird…and NOT the America we have always known. Guess when the Left labelled him ” General Be-tray-Us ” that had a message and a mission . Mission accomplished ? WE WANT HIS TESTIMONY,. And we want this administration held accountable.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:33am
  I anticipate a fair – high probability they will arrest him on trumped up charges, or are using some kind of threats against his family to keep his silent.
  
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- BookMDanno
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:52am
  THIS possibility sends chills up my spine, and could taint any ‘truth’ he gives us. This stuff is unbelievable, and with every day, I sense this administration worries less and less about any semblance of covering up what they are doing.
  
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- NOBAMASANDEE
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:19am
  If I were the good General, I would be VERY AFRAID right now…….the Ovomit admin has shown they will stop at nothing to cover up the ongoing take-over/make-over of the United States.
  
  Car wrecks, trip/fall accidents and muggings/robberies/murders happen everyday…..
  
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