Obama: "No Evidence" of Classified Breach in Petraeus Case

US President Barack Obama addressed for the first time the controversy that led to the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus.

Published

6 months ago

Categories

US

Topics

Military, US Politics, United States

People

Barack Obama, John Allen, David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell

Places

United States of America, Afghanistan

Transcript

RESENDING TO CORRECT PUNCTUATION IN INTRO ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) President Barack Obama on Wednesday said no one has provided any evidence so far to indicate that classified information was disclosed as a result of the sex scandal that cost retired General David Petraeus his job as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. Obama, speaking in his first formal press conference in eight months and his first since being re-elected last week, also said he is not supposed to meddle in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe of the Petraeus matter, and he will not prejudge the investigation's results. "General Petraeus had an extraordinary career," Obama said, but by Petraeus' own assessment, the former top commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan no longer met the standards to keep running the CIA.