Questions for FBI and Kundra Vetting

One of the odd things about the FBI raid on the chief technology officer's office in the District of Columbia on Thursday -- and there are a lot of odd things -- is where was the FBI's communication with the White House?

Yes, we were told that the FBI notified the Obama administration before the arrests took place. But where was the communication weeks before, when Vivek Kundra was being vetted for Obama's federal chief information officer position? After all, Obama announced it had named Kundra, who had headed up the D.C. office, to the top IT spot on March 5 -- just one week before the FBI made its arrests.

The White House would not say whether it knew about the investigation before it had announced Kundra's appointment, the Associated Press reported. But if it had, why run the risk of publicly announcing Kundra's appointment knowing that he may have to take a leave of absence within a week?

For sure, the FBI investigation had been going on for weeks, if not months. Why didn't the FBI team in charge of vetting know about the investigation? Isn't the bureau's new case sharing system called Sentinel supposed to support that kind of sharing? On the face of it, this just doesn't make sense.

As the 9/11 Commission learned, the FBI's right hand has had a hard time telling the left hand what it is doing. Could this be another example of that? If so, it doesn't say much for how far the FBI has come in the years since the commission came down hard on it and the intelligence community for not sharing information.