From Politico
Rogers wonders if Obama knew about Petraeus before Election Day
Did President Barack Obama know about the investigation into former CIA Director David Petraeus before Election Day?
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is confident that Obama did not. But her counterpart in the House, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), isn't.
"I'm not sure the president was not told before Election Day," Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"The attorney general [Eric Holder] knew months before this. There was no formal notice to both Congress or the intelligence community," Rogers continued. "I find it – we just have to ask the question, I hope he'll come up and talk to us about it. We could resolve this very quickly with a conversation in the intelligence spaces if he did have that conversation with the president."
Feinstein was adamant that Rogers's assertion was false, saying "there is no evidence" that Obama knew about the Petraeus affair before Election Day.
"I spoke to the attorney general," Feinstein replied. "He explained the process that the FBI carried out and there's a reason for that. And the reason for not disclosing it is so there is no manipulation, that there's an ability to move ahead without any political weighing in on any side."
The White House has said Obama was personally notified of the affair on Nov. 8 – when he returned from Chicago after winning reelection and one day before he officially accepted Petraeus's resignation due to an extramarital affair.
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