WASHINGTON -- Former CIA chief David Petraeus repeated his expressions of apology and regret for his sex scandal to members of the House Intelligence Committee Friday, according to U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin.
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The Rhode Island Democrat said, however, that except for those references in an opening statement, the famed former Army general did not discuss the love affair with his biographer that drove him to resign last week.
The purpose of his appearance was to discuss the September events in Benghazi that led to the deaths of several Americans at the embassy there. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has been criticized for her early assertion that the killings stemmed from a protest over a video deemed offensive to Muslims.
There was no such protest, Langevin said after Petraeus testified privately to the committee. But Langevin said there was only "a very subtle" difference between Rice's account and that of President Obama in the first days after the killing.