Petraeus Scandal: Where Will Investigations Take Congress?
LaFranchi, Howard, The Christian Science Monitor
Conspiracy theorists are offering all kinds of dark and convoluted guesses for why President Obama was not informed of the extramarital affair that brought down former CIA director David Petraeus until two days after the Nov. 6 elections.
But in the end the explanation may lead back to Watergate, and steps taken after the 1970s scandal to build a protective wall between the Justice Department criminal investigations and the White House.
Congress is likely to be reminded of that wall as it probes the national security ramifications of the Petraeus scandal with a series of closed-door hearings this week.
On Thursday, the Senate and House intelligence …
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Article title: Petraeus Scandal: Where Will Investigations Take Congress?.
Contributors: LaFranchi, Howard - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: November 13, 2012.
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