How Long Does It Take to Tell a President His CIA Director is Under Investigation?

How Long Does It Take to Tell a President His CIA Director is Under Investigation?

Here is the answer Americans are now supposed to believe: longer than it took for the White House to discover a YouTube video did not inspire the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.

In June 2010, President Obama fired Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the U.S. commander in Afghanistan because McChrystal had criticized civilian administration officials in the presence of a writer from Rolling Stone. Obama immediately named Gen. David Petraeus -- hero of the Iraq surge -- the new field commander in Afghanistan.

While Petraeus was in Afghanistan, a woman named Paula Broadwell "embedded" in...