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Notification from the executive branch, but in this case, not notifying the white house, not notifying the congressional oversight, i can't understand that. >> it is disgraceful. and the question to ask is this, on the -- we talk about the fbi and the cia hating each other. i wonder if the fbi agents would've followed this through if it had been the fbi director that had been mentioned here. because there's no suggestion of any crime. there's a suggestion that maybe the head of the cia may be involved in something like this. but, again, strictly personal. harassing e-mails, no threatening e-ma...

Reporting on about the original fbi agent who was investigating this? >> right. what we are told by sources is that this whole -- this whole process begins when a woman in tampa goes to a friend she has who happens to be an fbi agent and said she's concerned about these harassing e-mails she's getting. and that starts the investigation. what we are now told is that that agent at this point in this process was explicitly directed not to have anything further to do with the case because he was -- supervisors had become concerned he was too personally involve with the woman who made the original ...

Petraeus' friends claim it started around november 2011, two months after he took over the cia, an important point since he could be trierd under military law for adultery. >> my understanding from him is that the affair did not begin when he was in the army. >> reporter: many who know the general suspect it did begin in afghanistan. it was september 2010 that broadwell made her first of six visits to petraeus in the war zone after being granted extraordinary access to write the book about him. >> and when i was in kabul, we would do a lot of interviews on runs. for him i think it was a good d...

She seems to -- >> she knew this fbi agent somehow. >> that's true. >> she had some kind of a hoste? hosts military-related events in tampa. >> yes, she does. gets shirtless photos. >> apparently. >> it's the job description. >> christopher lee was the congressman. >> christopher lee. >> that agent we were talking about apparently grew concerned the investigation into the harassing e-mails -- >> wait, that agent, you mean the one without the shirt. >> yeah, the shirtless agent. >> so he's concerned. the shirtless agent's concerned. >> and contacted a member of congress even though the white ho...

Sensitive. i don't necessarily understand why private marital infidelity would become a matter of national significance that congress needed to be briefed n on. is that a clear line for you? >> that's the fbi's point. once they knew this was just a private matter. but the point that feinstein made today is that there were stages along the way where this was considered a national security breach. where initially, they thought the director's e-mails had been hacked into and someone was trying to e-mail pretengd to be him and also his personal schedule, which is classified, had been released beca...