Frederick humphries who launched the investigation of emails is being investigated by the fbi for his role in the case. Specifically why he took concerns about this case to republican members of congress. House and Senate Panels are expected to meet again today with fbi and cia officials. They want to know whether National Security was jeopardized and why congress didnt know about the investigation sooner. During a News Conference on wednesday president obama praised David Petraeus. General petraeus had an extraordinary career. He served this country with great distinction in iraq, in afghanistan and as head of the cia. By his own assessment he did not meet the standards that he felt were necessary as the director of the cia with respect to this personal matter that hes now dealing with, with his family and with his wife. And its on that basis that he tendered his resignation and i accepted it. The house panel is looking into the governments handling of the deadly september attack on t
Good morning, everyone. We have new details this morning on the sex scandal that brought down former cia director David Petraeus. Weve learned the name of that mystery agent from the fbi who first exposed the petraeus affair. He is fbi veteran agent frederick humphries. Notorious for sending shirtless photos of himself to another key player in the scandal. He says it was just a lighthearted joke. That woman would be jill kelly, seen on the right, which claims she was threatened by petraeus lover. She has been stripped of her special access to Macdill Air Force base in tampa. And Paula Broadwell is under investigation for storing military documents, on her computer. And for the first time president obama has weighed in on this mess. Preeti arla has the latest. Reporter president obama walked into the east room of the white house for his first postelection news conference, tackling the major issues the administration will face in the weeks ahead. Im open to compromise. And im open to new
Good morning. Thanks for joining us. The sex scandal that forced cia director David Petraeus to resign is widening. Petraeus mistress Paula Broadwell sent emails to petraeus and other senior military leaders besides general john allen. Meanwhile the fbi agent Frederick Humphries who launched the investigation of emails is being investigated by the fbi for his role in the case. Specifically why he took concerns about this case to republican members of congress. House and Senate Panels are expected to meet again today with fbi and cia officials. They want to know whether National Security was jeopardized and why congress didnt know about the investigation sooner. During a News Conference on wednesday president obama praised David Petraeus. General petraeus had an extraordinary career. He served this country with great distinction in iraq, in afghanistan and as head of the cia. By his own assessment he did not meet the standards that he felt were necessary a the director of the cia with r
Ambassador apparently because they think shes an easy target, then they got a problem. President obama fires back at republican critics. The controversy over susan rice calling the deadly attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi spontaneous has reached a boiling point. After republicans threaten to block her possible nomination for secretary of state. The president thinks we are picking on people, he really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. If senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody they should go after me. David petraeus will be on capitol hill tomorrow to testify about the september 11th attacks on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. We now know the identity of the fbi agent who triggered the investigation into the petraeus affair. Three people have been killed ter rockets were fired into southern israel from gaza. The first israeli deaths after the country killed a hamas military commander yesterday. A popular energy drink, five