Is the administration trying to keep Patraeus quiet?

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Fox News: GOP rep calls Petraeus probe 'perplexing and suspicious'http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/17/gop-rep-calls-petraeus-probe-perplexing-and-suspicious/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/17/gop-rep-calls-petraeus-probe-perplexing-and-suspicious/

The ongoing investigation of former CIA director David Petraeus is “perplexing and suspicious,” according to a leading Republican on the House Government Oversight Committee.

After sending a letter and questioning Attorney General Eric Holder twice and former FBI Director Robert Mueller once about the probe, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told Holder in a new letter this week, "I find the timeline...to be increasingly perplexing and suspicious. I urge the Department to move forward with this investigation in an expeditious and prudent manner."

Chaffetz also told Gretchen Carlson on Fox News’ “The Real Story” Wednesday that the open investigation may have a chilling effect on the probe by the new Benghazi Select Committee.

"It creates all of this hesitation,” Chaffetz told Carlson. “Both from the Department of Justice and the administration as well as General Petraeus himself, and the reluctance (to provide information) to say ‘well, I can't give you that information, we can't get into that yet, we can't answer questions yet because there's an ongoing investigation.’"

When Holder appeared at an April House Government Oversight committee hearing, he was asked when the investigation would be finished, given it has gone on for, now, over a year and a half. Holder said, essentially, that it would be over when it was over, and of course Holder "couldn't remember" what Obama had been told about the investigation.

DOJ is "reviewing the Chaffetz letter" but, again of course, "can't comment on an ongoing investigation."

My guess? It will end at noon on January 20, 2017.