Rep. Peter King: ‘Petraeus has to be a witness’

Published November 12, 2012 5:00am ET



Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said that former CIA director David Petraeus must testify before Congress about the Benghazi terrorist attack, despite his resignation over an extramarital affair.

“I’m on the intelligence committee, Mike Rogers is the chairman, but I strongly believe that David Petraeus has to be a witness at that hearing — if not this week, then in the weeks after,” King said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Petraeus withdrew from the hearing after he resigned.

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