Fbi Investigation - Lawmaker Suggests Obama Told Of Petraeus Affair Earlier Reuters

Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:27pm EST

(Reuters) - The travel with the House Intelligence Committee suggested on Sunday of which President Barack Obama could have regarded with regards to previous CIA Director David Petraeus' extra-marital party prior to November election, and said Attorney General Eric Holder ought to address this kind of problem quickly ahead of Congress.

U.S. Representative Mike Rogers, some sort of Republican, said Holder's record of which that Justice Department have definitely not informed the president prior to a election recommended which Holder could have explained to Obama privately.

He observed which the FBI study belonging to the sales and marketing communications somewhere between Petraeus plus his biographer Paula Broadwell came to exist due to matter more than a counter-intelligence threat. Both Petraeus and Broadwell include mentioned they will failed to write about just about any safety secrets, as well as investigators have explained they have determined no security breach.

"It possibly requires recently been produced send earlier to be a countrywide safety measures threat," Rogers said.

"I'm undecided that this us president wasn't advised just before Election Day. The attorney general said that the Department with Justice could not alert that president, nonetheless we will not learn if the personal injury attorney general.(notified him)," Rogers said.

He claimed Holder ought to are available prior to a intelligence committees to explore it. "We could handle the following within weeks using a dialogue within the cleverness places in case they did include in which conversing considering the president."

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein disagreed, indicating Holder had discussed on the brains committees there ended up being no notification whilst your analysis was within way. Justice along with the FBI needed this approach, your lover said, "so there is an capacity to maneuver ahead without the political weighing-in with any side."

The retired four legend standard accepted for the extramarital relationship and reconciled his posting in the CIA three times after Obama was chosen to your second period on November 6.

Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham referred to as the actual FBI investigation with the party "the oddest adventure inside world" and doubted Obama believed prior to a election. "I could possibly notice precisely how he / she would not know," he said.

(Reporting by way of Jackie Frank; Editing by Doina Chiacu)