affair, at which time I think they faced the choice. It seemed like they were sure by then they weren't going to charge anyone with a crime. And they had to decide what to do with the information about the general's affair. And they eventually notified the director of national intelligence. GWEN IFILL: Jane Harman, Nancy Pelosi said today -- and Dianne Feinstein is not happy either -- said today that it would have been nice to hear about this before she heard about it on TV. Now, at what point -- explain to the people who don't get the way this works what the oversight role is of these congressional committees, when they're supposed to be told and when it would be politically unadvantageous in terms of looking like, if you were trying to taint an investigation, not to tell members? JANE HARMAN: Well, I think I answered most of that in my last answer. But if it's an ongoing criminal investigation not involving the head of the CIA or somebody of that kind, I don't know what the obligation was to tell Congress anything. By the time, however, that this perhaps rogue FBI agent in Florida who lived in Tampa and was friendly with the other woman involved in all this called Dave Reichert, a former sheriff and member of Congress from Washington state, who called Eric Cantor, then this was a highly irregular process. And going to Jim Clapper when the FBI did, on Election Day, I