While Broadwell’s current academic affiliation is with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, her previous post was deputy director of the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. The Center, according to its self-description, “distinguishes itself by a philosophy that maintains counter-terrorism should be predictive, preventive and preemptive, with the latter being a last resort.”

Die Zahl der Protestierer blieb jedoch deutlich hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Medien führten das auf die massive Polizeipräsenz mit Scharfschützen, Hubschraubern und unzähligen Straßensperren zurück. Kundgebungen in der Nähe der offiziellen Veranstaltungsorte waren zudem verboten.

The first elected official to know of the affair appears to have been Washington state congressman Dave Reichert, who brought the matter to the attention of House majority leader Eric Cantor.

A senior U.S. intelligence official said an extramarital affair by a CIA officer is not automatically considered a security violation. (..)

The official also said Broadwell did not have a security clearance from the CIA.

In the aftermath of the investigation, some lawmakers are aiming criticism at the FBI and the Obama administration, including Attorney General Eric Holder, who knew about the email link to Mr. Petraeus as far back as late summer. A House Republican leader also learned of the matter in October.

President Barack Obama issued an executive order in January 2009 stripping the CIA of its authority to take prisoners.

Nachdem Bundeskanzler Werner Faymann (SPÖ) die Österreicher im „Presse“-Interview auf einen höheren EU-Beitrag eingeschworen hat, forderten Vizekanzler Michael Spindelegger und sein Staatssekretär, Reinhold Lopatka, (beide ÖVP) eine härtere Verhandlungslinie – notfalls mit Veto.

A jobless Ecuadorian couple await a foreclosure order and face a life-time loan debt in northern Spain, near the town where a 53-year old woman about to be evicted killed herself by jumping from the balcony of the flat she was no longer able to pay for. Sarah Sheffer reports.

Protests have started in Portugal‘s capital Lisbon, where Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting. People there blame the German leader for their nation‘s economic hardships. The country had to adopt severe austerity measures to receive a bailout worth almost 80-billion-euros last year. RT‘s Sara Firth is in the Portuguese capital.

Another year of pain looms for Greece as the country‘s Parliament approves an austerity budget which will force more biting cuts upon an already struggling population. It‘s been a pre-condition from international lenders who‘ve been delaying another bailout cash injection for months now.

Farage versus Merkel.

La canciller realiza una breve visita a Portugal, el mismo día que vuelve la troika para examinar los ajustes que han conducido al país a la mayor crisis desde los años setenta.

Anti-austerity protesters draped Lisbon statues in black mourning sashes to greet Angela Merkel on Monday and a local business newspaper blamed the visiting German chancellor for „Frankenstein“ policies driving Portugal into poverty.

Das Ergebnis der „schmerzhaften“ Veränderungen“ werde eines Tages jedoch positiv sein. Auch in Deutschland habe es Zeit gebraucht, bis man die Ergebnisse „einschneidender Reformen“ habe sehen können.

The California Democrat said there was no connection between Petraeus‘ resignation and the September 11, 2012, killings in Benghazi. Petraeus had been scheduled to testify about the Benghazi case on Thursday in a closed session of the committee; Mike Morrell, the acting CIA director, is now expected to do so.

(26.10.) Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA chain of command — who also told the CIA operators twice to „stand down“ rather than help the ambassador‘s team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

“Over the past month, we and our colleagues have sent 13 separate letters to senior Administration officials, including President Obama, seeking an explanation for why no U.S. armed forces were available to go to the aid of the four American citizens who died during the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Today, we finally received from the Secretary of Defense the first response to our many letters. Unfortunately, Secretary Panetta‘s letter only confirms what we already knew – that there were no forces at a sufficient alert posture in Europe, Africa or the Middle East to provide timely assistance to our fellow citizens in need in Libya. The letter fails to address the most important question – why not?“

Entgegen der empirischen Erfahrung in Argentinien und später in den 1990er Jahren in Asien, wurde genau dieselbe verquere und menschenverachtende Wirtschaftspolitik, deren verheerende Ergebnisse allseits – aber insbesondere im IWF (Internationaler Währungsfond) – bekannt waren, wieder auf ganz Südeuropa angewandt: Die Ergebnisse sind fatal!

STUTTGART, Germany, Nov 7, 2012 — Students of the George C. Marshall Center‘s Program in Advanced Security Studies (PASS) visited U.S. Africa Command November 5, 2012, to learn more about the command‘s mission and objectives and to hear first-hand about its role in combating security issues in Africa.

(31.10.) Little said Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, maintain complete faith in the job Army Gen. Carter F. Ham is doing as Africom’s leader.

(18.10.) Gen. David Rodriguez, currently head of U.S. Army Forces Command, would be the third Army general to head Africa Command, which was created in 2007.

Panetta says Rodriguez played a key role in the surge of U.S. forces to Afghanistan, when he was the No. 2 U.S. commander there.

As the Army withdraws forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the branch’s chief of staff says the next goal is having uniformed soldiers return to traditional jobs they performed previously, Federal News Radio reports.

(22.10.) Gen. Raymond Odierno’s comments came as Army and Pentagon leaders are weighing the potential punishments for former Africa Command head Gen. William “Kip” Ward. (..)

“This is not a good old boy network. When you do something wrong you will be held accountable.”