FORMER CIA director David Petraeus has told legislators he believed all along that the deadly September 11 assault on the US consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack, a congressman says, as the former general faced congress for the first time since he resigned over an extramarital affair.
Republican congressman Peter King told reporters that Petraeus focused on his remarks during the closed-door hearing on the Libya attack, which killed the US ambassador.
Republicans have claimed that the White House misled the public on what led to the violence by blaming it at first on protests over an anti-Muslim film produced in the US.
Lawmakers said Petraeus told them that CIA talking points written after the attack in Benghazi referred to it as a terrorist attack. But Petraeus said the reference was removed by other federal agencies that made changes to the CIA's draft.
The retired four-star Army general, once one of the country's most respected military leaders, entered the Capitol through a network of underground hallways, away from photographers and television cameras.
Petraeus is under investigation by the CIA for possible wrongdoing in his extramarital affair, though that wasn't the subject of Friday's hearings.
"He was definitely fully aware of what was going on," King said of the Benghazi attack.
Five days after the attack, the Obama administration sent UN ambassador Susan Rice on the Sunday news shows to describe it as a spontaneous protest over the anti-Muslim video. Rice relied on initial intelligence that proved incorrect, and she's now under attack by some Republican senators who vow to block her if she's nominated as secretary of state when Hillary Rodham Clinton steps down.
Lawmakers have been interviewing top intelligence and national security officials in trying to determine what the intelligence community knew before, during and after the attack. They viewed security video from the consulate and surveillance footage by an unarmed CIA Predator drone that showed events in real time.
Petraeus was appearing before the House Intelligence Committee and its Senate counterpart.
"Director Petraeus went to Tripoli and interviewed many of the people involved," said Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein.
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