At a Thursday press conference in Bangkok, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he's unaware of any more top military brass involved in the web of scandal uncovered by the investigation into Gen. David Petraeus's affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, the Associated Press reports.
The clarification comes now that the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, has been sucked into the controversy after the discovery of potentially flirtatious emails with Tampa, Fla., socialite Jill Kelley. Kelley had set off the entire scandal by reaching out to an FBI agent after receiving threatening emails eventually believed to be from Broadwell. Those emails led the FBI to uncover the affair between Broadwell and the CIA director.
"I am not aware of any others that could be involved in this issue at the present time," Panetta said, according to the AP.?He added that he cannot characterize the tone of the emails between Allen and Kelley.
Panetta has launched a Pentagon investigation into the affair, as several concerns have arisen over whether classified documents might have ended up with Broadwell as a result of her access to Petraeus.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Petraeus told an HLN reporter that he did not pass along any classified information in the course of the affair. And President Barack Obama stated at a White House news conference that there was no evidence so far of any leaked documents that might jeopordize national securtiy.
Petraeus is to testify Friday on the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 in a closed hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The former?CIA director's friend and former executive officer in Iraq, retired Col. Peter Mansoor, said Petraeus is displeased at conspiracy theories that claimed he was avoiding testimony on Benghazi, according to the Daily Mail.
Mansoor also said the general described his own conduct as "morally reprehensible," but not illegal.
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