Senior intelligence officials and the FBI’s deputy director will face
tough questioning Thursday from House and Senate intelligence committee
members upset over the Obama administration’s mishandling of the Sept.
11 terror attack in Benghazi.
The intelligence and law enforcement leaders also will be grilled about the FBI cyber probe into email messages that led to the resignation Friday of CIA director David Petraeus and this week ensnared the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan in an unfolding scandal.
The scandal that led to the downfall of Petraeus one week before he was to testify on the Benghazi terror attack implicated Gen. John Allen, the commander in Afghanistan whose nomination to be U.S. European Command commander was put on hold after the discovery of up to 30,000 “potentially inappropriate” pages of emails the four-star general sent to a central figure in the affair.
Acting CIA director Mike Morell, Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, and committee vice chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R., Ga.) met late Tuesday. No details of the discussion could be learned.
The FBI agent in Tampa who first triggered the federal investigation after Tampa socialite Jill Kelley contacted him was later barred from involvement in the case after reportedly becoming obsessed with the case and for sending emails containing shirtless photographs of himself to Kelley.
FBI agents, meanwhile, conducted a raid on the Charlotte, N.C., home of Paula Broadwell, a reserve Army officer who had the affair with Petraeus and then sent a series of menacing emails to Kelley. Agents were seen removing boxes from the home.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/sex-lies-and-benghazi/
The intelligence and law enforcement leaders also will be grilled about the FBI cyber probe into email messages that led to the resignation Friday of CIA director David Petraeus and this week ensnared the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan in an unfolding scandal.
The scandal that led to the downfall of Petraeus one week before he was to testify on the Benghazi terror attack implicated Gen. John Allen, the commander in Afghanistan whose nomination to be U.S. European Command commander was put on hold after the discovery of up to 30,000 “potentially inappropriate” pages of emails the four-star general sent to a central figure in the affair.
Acting CIA director Mike Morell, Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, and committee vice chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R., Ga.) met late Tuesday. No details of the discussion could be learned.
The FBI agent in Tampa who first triggered the federal investigation after Tampa socialite Jill Kelley contacted him was later barred from involvement in the case after reportedly becoming obsessed with the case and for sending emails containing shirtless photographs of himself to Kelley.
FBI agents, meanwhile, conducted a raid on the Charlotte, N.C., home of Paula Broadwell, a reserve Army officer who had the affair with Petraeus and then sent a series of menacing emails to Kelley. Agents were seen removing boxes from the home.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/sex-lies-and-benghazi/
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