WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Intelligence officials on
Thursday showed lawmakers a real-time film of the deadly attack
on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, and discussed
a timeline of events in sometimes heated exchanges at a
closed-door hearing, lawmakers said.

The House and Senate intelligence committees heard from
intelligence, FBI and State Department officials on the events
surrounding the Sept. 11 attack that killed the U.S. ambassador
to Libya and three other Americans.

WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence and State
Department officials testified behind closed doors on Capitol
Hill on Thursday about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission
in Benghazi, Libya, that has turned into a contentious issue
between Republicans and the administration of President Barack
Obama.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus, before his resignation
last week over an extramarital affair, had initially been
scheduled to testify at Thursday’s closed Senate and House of
Representatives intelligence committee hearings, but will now be
a solo witness before those panels on Friday morning.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Republican senators on Wednesday if they had a problem with the handling of the Benghazi attack in Libya to “go after me” rather than pick on his ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice.

Obama’s comments, in a combative tone, came after two senior Republican senators said they would block any attempts by the president to put Rice into a Cabinet position that would require Senate confirmation.

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told
Republican senators on Wednesday if they had a problem with the
handling of the Benghazi attack in Libya to “go after me” rather
than pick on his ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice.

Obama’s comments, in a combative tone, came after two senior
Republican senators said they would block any attempts by the
president to put Rice into a Cabinet position that would require
Senate confirmation.

WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – The FBI investigation that
led to the discovery of CIA Director David Petraeus’ affair with
author Paula Broadwell was sparked by “suspicious emails” that
initially did not contain any connection to Petraeus, U.S. law
enforcement and security officials told Reuters on Saturday.

But the CIA director’s name unexpectedly turned up in the
course of the investigation, two officials and two other sources
briefed on the matter said.

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – David Petraeus was a star on
the battlefield, commanding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but
was undone by “poor judgment” in engaging in an extramarital
affair that led to his downfall as CIA director.

Just two days after his 60th birthday, Petraeus stepped down
from the spy agency where he had held the top office since Sept.
6, 2011.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CIA Director David Petraeus resigned his post as head of the nation’s leading spy agency on Friday, saying he had engaged in an extramarital affair and acknowledging that he “showed extremely poor judgment.”

In a letter to the CIA workforce, Petraeus, 60, said that he met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday and asked “to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney vied on Monday over who was Israel’s strongest defender but both agreed that a military strike over Iran’s nuclear program must be a “last resort.”

Tehran’s nuclear program, which the West suspects is for developing weapons and that economic sanctions have so far failed to stop, is almost certain to be among the top foreign policy challenges facing the next president.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican senator on Friday accused the head of the U.S. Secret Service of making potentially misleading statements to Congress about a prostitution scandal involving agency employees before a presidential trip to Colombia in April.

Senator Ron Johnson, the senior Republican on the Homeland Security subcommittee on oversight of government management, issued a memo detailing his concerns about Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan’s statements to Congress on May 23.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican senator on Friday accused the head of the Secret Service of making potentially misleading statements to Congress about a prostitution scandal involving agency employees before a presidential trip to Colombia in April.

Senator Ron Johnson, the senior Republican on the Homeland Security subcommittee on oversight of government management, issued a memo detailing his concerns about Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan’s statements to Congress on May 23.