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On the recordNovember 11, 2012
At that stage, the attorney general should have immediately gone to the president. It's the president that runs foreign policy, not the attorney general.
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Peter King
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Peter King asserts that the attorney general should have informed the president about the investigation involving Petraeus.

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