Barney Frank confronts Hutchinson for ‘weasel words’ linking Obama to Petraeus scandal

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Barney Frank confronts Hutchinson for ‘weasel words’ linking Obama to Petraeus scandal
By David Edwards
Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:47 EST

In a face to face confrontation that aired on Sunday, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) called out Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) for using “weasel words” to suggest that President Barack Obama knew about former CIA Director David Petraeus’ sex scandal prior to the November election.

Hutchinson told CNN’s Candy Crowley and a panel of lawmakers that she couldn’t believe that an email threat that Paul Broadwell, Petraeus’ mistress, allegedly made to another woman triggered a low-level FBI investigation that the president would not have known about.

“I’m very worried about this,” she opined. “Did it really trigger an FBI investigation of the CIA director? At a low level? And it wasn’t raised to a higher level? I mean, if anybody is investigating the director of the CIA, the president of the United States should know immediately. And I feel like, A, we don’t know enough and, B, I have great concerns about a lot of this surrounding…”

“Nobody was investigating the director of the CIA,” Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) interrupted. “What they were inquiring into was whether or not somebody had unauthorized access or was taking advantage of access to the director.