Planned congressional hearings on the Benghazi incident will continue as planned with CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell filling in for Petraeus as acting director.
The CIA, for instance, sees MI6 as a competitor.
I am completely confident that the CIA will continue to thrive and carry out its essential mission, and I have the utmost confidence in Acting Director Michael Morell and the men and women of the CIA who work every day to keep our nation safe.
With admiration and appreciation, David H Petraeus Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 6.15pm ET23:15 AP's first take on David Petraeus's resignation: David Petraeus has resigned as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair.
The Lithuanian prime minister, Algirdas Butkevicius, urged Washington to say whether the country housed one of the bases where the CIA tortured prisoners.
Explaining why he chose to work closely with the CIA, he said: "There's no such thing as a free lunch".
The Washington Post was similarly emphatic in its own editorial, following graphic details of treatment meted out to detainees in CIA custody with a clear: "This is not how Americans should behave.
The Times emphasied the impact of the report on the CIA despite the fact that many of its conclusions "had been trailed long in advance".
The CIA depicted here is the rogue agency of Hollywood fiction, writing its own rules, hoodwinking its paymasters and betraying the values for which America purports to stand.
He retired a four-star general – the highest nominal rank in the US army – and was unanimously confirmed as CIA director in October 2011.
Wikileaks' Global Intelligence Files revealed that groups such as Greenpeace, Amnesty International and animal rights organisation Peta were all monitored by global intelligence company Stratfor, once described as a "shadow CIA".
