FORMER CIA Director David Petraeus has been sneaked into the Capitol, away from photographers and television cameras, to face lawmakers' questions for the first time about the deadly attack on the US Consulate in Libya - just a week after he resigned over an extramarital affair.
The retired four-star army general, formerly one of the country's most respected military leaders, entered through a network of underground hallways leading to a secure room. CIA directors typically walk through the building's front door.
Petraeus is under investigation by the CIA for possible wrongdoing in his extramarital affair, though that's not the subject of Friday's closed-door hearings. The September 11 attack in Benghazi, which killed the US ambassador and three other Americans, created a political firestorm, with Republicans claiming that the White House misled the public on what led to the violence.
Petraeus was appearing first before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday and then its Senate counterpart and was expected to provide more details about the US response.
Petraeus has acknowledged an affair with a woman later identified as his biographer, the married Paula Broadwell.
The FBI began investigating the matter last (northern) summer, but didn't notify the White House or congress until after the November 6 election.
In the course of investigating the Petraeus affair, the FBI uncovered suggestive emails between Afghanistan war chief General John Allen and Florida socialite Jill Kelley, both of them married. President Barack Obama has put Allen's promotion nomination on hold.
Leading administration officials, meanwhile, met privately with lawmakers for a third straight day to explain how the Petraeus investigation was handled and explore its national security implications.
Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the committee's top Democrat, said after the hearing he was satisfied that the FBI had behaved properly in not notifying the White House or legislators about the inquiry sooner, in keeping with rules set up to prevent interference in criminal investigations.
The CIA on Thursday opened an exploratory investigation into Petraeus's conduct. The inquiry "doesn't presuppose any particular outcome", said CIA spokesman Preston Golson.
Petraeus, in his first media interview since he resigned, told CNN that he had never given classified information to Broadwell. The general's biographer also has said she didn't receive such material from Petraeus.
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