Petraeus Grilled By Intel Panels Disgraced former CIA director Petraeus slipped into closed door hearings before the House and Senate intelligence committees this morning to testify about what he learned first-hand about the Sept. Petraeus spoke and was questioned by the House committee for about 90 minutes, and then spent another 90 minutes before the Senate panel, but Congressional officials made sure that no one else got speak to or even see the former four-star general. He was brought into the House before reporters were aware of his presence and Capitol Hill police cleared out a passage way from the House to the Senate, even requiring congressional staff to stay out of the hallways and elevators. The committees had been pushing to hear from Petraeus about the Benghazi attack, particularly since he traveled to Libya and carried out his own investigation into what happened. Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the sex scandal that forced Petraeus to abruptly resign was not a factor in the hearing, which was confined to the terror attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Little emerged from the Senate hearing, but Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., came out of the hearing to say that Petraeus' testimony supported U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice. Rice, who could be nominated for Secretary of State by President Obama, has been accused by Republicans of trying to mislead the country by saying the attack was a spontaneous eruption rather than a failure to defend against a terrorist attack. "Ambassador Rice used the unclassified talking points that the entire intelligence community signed off on, so she did the appropriate thing," Conrad said. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., also indicate the testimony bolstered Rice. "I think it's important that the character of the U.N. ambassador be clarified and our understanding from hearing two days of testimony that in fact what the U.N. ambassador stated was the talking points that had been given, approved, declassified to the House Intelligence Committee," Nelson said. Petraeus' Testimony Supports Ambassador Rice, Democrats Say Also testifying Thursday were FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce, Under Secretary of State for Management Pat Kennedy and National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen. Feinstein, D-Calif., added that the footage includes video shot from an unmanned aerial vehicle.