CIA scandal has ‘no impact’ on US national security

US president Barack Obama has said he has no evidence the scandal that ended David Petraeus’s career has had a negative impact on US national security.

CIA scandal has  ‘no impact’ on US national security

In his first public comments on the matter, Obama told a White House news conference that, from what he has seen, no classified information had been disclosed that would harm national security.

He was speaking five days after Petraeus resigned as head of the CIA after disclosing that he had an affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell.

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