Does Anyone Really Believe This?

According to the news reports, Attorney General Eric Holder was told of the investigation into CIA director Petreus last summer when Holder's permission was needed to obtain the emails in Pertreus' account. Also, according to the news reports,Holder did not tell the president of the investigation and Obama remained unaware of it until after the election.

On Saturday Night Live, they would look at each other and say "Really?" at this point. There is no way that Holder would let the president go forward, especially in a campaign year, without telling him of the investigation. It would violate the first rule of political survival: keep your boss out of harm's way. Even more than political survival, there is the issue of the security of the USA. Holder would have to tell Obama, since this mess had the potential to affect national security.

So what really happened? We may never know for sure. As more facts come out, I remain convinced that Obama used the investigation as a means to keep Petreus in line on the Benghazi mess during the campaign, and then he threw Petreus under the bus once the election was over.