First of all, start with what Fran said, the fact this became an FBI investigation to begin with.
If they were going to do that, they should have immediately gone to the attorney general and also to the president of the United States beca...
At that stage, the attorney general should have immediately gone to the president. It's the president that runs foreign policy, not the atto...
I believe he had the absolute obligation to tell the president in fairness to the president what was happening.
If the president did find out about it and didn't act on it until after the election, that's equally wrong.
The FBI I don't think has handled itself very well in this at all.
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.
But once he came under this scope of the investigation, they had to have -- they should have notified the president because David Petraeus w...