Claims that FBI protocol kept the White House from being informed about the Petraeus affair are demonstrably false.

... And are incredible on their face.

Would you not tell the President that his CIA Director is under investigation and could be blackmailed? What kind of a dim bulb believes this? The answer is people who want to believe, who need to believe because to do otherwise brings their belief in Obama into question. He's their messiah and you don't give up your faith easily.

Obviously, the president relies on the CIA director for security assessments and briefings on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Can the attorney general and the White House seriously argue that the fact that Petraeus had an extramarital affair that made him subject to blackmail, and that he might have disclosed classified information to his paramour, was not important for the president to know when carrying out his duties to protect the country from national security threats as commander-in-chief?

One of the reasons for the FBI protocols and the DOJ guidance is preventing interference with criminal investigations of third parties who may have political connections with the White House or Congress. That rationale does not apply to the investigation of a high-level government official who is a direct subordinate of the president. Both the president and the National Security Council should have been immediately informed about this investigation when the security issues arose.

In fact, a long-time acquaintance who worked in the Office of the Attorney General in a prior administration told me it was inconceivable that an attorney general would not inform the White House counsel or the president that the president’s CIA director was being investigated.
 

 We’ve got a president Klink who knows nothing, hears nothings, and sees nothing.