Peter King actually said...

I have great admiration for David Petraeus. I urged him to run for president. I have worked with him. He's a tremendous patriot.

They should have gone to the president, told him what they had and let the president decide.

If we are going to waste our time on something like this, which again, maybe there was something threatening there, but it really seems unus...

If that's the case, then it was a real dereliction of duty because the president's main job above all is to be commander in chief.