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Boston Globe
| 6 months ago
Committee, was on a very short list to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He has a lot of international experience, but defense experience is another matter, said David Schenker, a Pentagon official in the George W. Bush administration and...
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Miami Herald
| 6 months ago
Barely a week after winning re-election, President Barack Obama suddenly confronts a deepening challenge in assembling a new national security team, his task complicated by a scandal that has cost him a CIA chief and raised doubts about his...
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Washington Post
| 6 months ago
Petraeus was picked for the job, and eager to take it, partly because the White House believed that in an era of counterterrorism, the CIA's traditional mission of stealing secrets was morphing into a wider role that increasingly stressed...
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Russia Today
| 6 months ago
One week after an assault in Benghazi left an US ambassador and three fellow Americans dead, conflicting reports into the details surrounding their passing from both the White House and Libyan officials leave the facts of the raid uncertain. Google...
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Al Jazeera English
| 6 months ago
46 The career of the top US commander in Afghanistan is now in jeopardy because of the investigation into the sex scandal involving David Petraeus , the former top commander in Iraq and Afghanistan who resigned as CIA director last week.
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International Business Times
| 6 months ago
Kerry had been said to cove t Hillary Clinton 's job as Secretary of State, but that position is alm ost certain to go to Susan E. Rice, who is currently the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, administration officials, who spoke on condition of...
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Los Angeles Times
| 6 months ago
An FBI investigation that led to the resignation of Gen David Petraeus also turned up evidence that Gen John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan , was exchanging potentially inappropriate emails with a Florida woman involved in the scandal,...
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CNN
| 6 months ago
John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is under investigation by the Defense Department for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to Jill Kelley, the woman whose complaints about e-mails from another woman led to the discovery of...
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CNSNews.com
| 6 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says U.S. forces were deployed as quickly as possible after terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11 -- but the attack "was largely over the by time we could respond." "The fundamental fact is this...
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CNSNews.com
| 6 months ago
Speaking with reporters on a flight to Perth, Australia Monday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was asked about the scandal engulfing Gen. David Petraeus, the man who replaced Panetta as CIA director. Is there any indication that Petraeus' affair with...
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Zee News
| 6 months ago
The Pentagon and the White House will make a final decision within weeks on how many American troops will remain in Afghanistan as a residual force after the final combat troops leave at the end of 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said.
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Washington Post
| 6 months ago
The FBI first notified the Pentagon of its investigation into Allen's communications with Kelley on Sunday evening, according to the senior defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the ongoing case...Panetta...
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Zee News
| 6 months ago
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta Tuesday said he is not quiting the Obama Cabinet for now and his main focus is to address the all the current security related challenges, including the issue of Afghanistan.
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 6 months ago
David Petraeus sex scandal, the Pentagon said Tuesday that the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for alleged "inappropriate communications" with a woman who is said to have received threatening emails from...
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NY Daily News
| 6 months ago
17 PM Updated: Monday, November 12, 2012, 11:19 PM Musadeq Sadeq/AP Former presidential hopeful John Kerry's name is being floated as the next Secretary of Defense. John Kerry appears to be the favorite to become the next secretary of defense.
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International Herald Tribune
| 6 months ago
That number will in turn determine the pace of the reduction over the next two years of the 68,000 American military personnel currently in Afghanistan. Administration officials have never publicly discussed what number might remain, although in Iraq,...
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Arab News
| 6 months ago
This was the four-star general who devised the troop surge in Iraq and counter-insurgency tactics in Afghanistan. He oversaw multinational forces in Iraq and commanded US forces in Afghanistan...He was nationally and globally respected for his...
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Washington Post
| 6 months ago
The second-term effort got underway Monday as Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta traveled to Perth, Australia, for two days of talks with the country's leaders. Also joining the talks will be Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Gen. Martin...
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Reuters
| 6 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta refused to speculate on Monday about how soon he might step down and even joked that he couldn't rule out spending another term in the job, saying: "Who the hell knows?"
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Politico
| 6 months ago
The director of the FBI has regular meetings with Obama on security. Evidently the FBI knew that Broadwell had classified info in fact she was out in Denver in October talking about the Benghazi consulate and the CIA annex being the real target of...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 6 months ago
US president Barack Obama's advisers are weighing how many troops to keep in Afghanistan after 2014 and will make a decision within a "few weeks," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says. US troops in Afghanistan, General John Allen, has submitted a...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 6 months ago
Former money-market fund co-managers Bruce Bent Sr. and Bruce Bent II were cleared of intentional fraud in a federal civil trial, in a high-profile defeat for the SEC in claims stemming from the financial crisis. The CIA disputes a theory advanced by...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 6 months ago
Petraeus was right to resign as director of the CIA over an affair because the position requires "personal integrity," Pentagon chief Leon Panetta says. Panetta, who led the Central Intelligence Agency for two years before moving to the Defense...
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Chicago Tribune
| 6 months ago
The United States will determine in the next several weeks how many troops it will keep in Afghanistan as part of a residual force following the drawdown of most combat forces at the end of 2014, U.S...Afghanistan, General John Allen, had submitted...
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Associated Press
| 6 months ago
Panetta tells reporters aboard his plane en route from Hawaii to Australia on Monday that the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, has developed several options on a post-2014 presence...While Panetta declined to reveal his plans, he...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
A burnt building is seen at the United States consulate, one day after armed men stormed the compound and killed the U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya on September 12, 2012. Nov. 12 (UPI) -- There was "no...
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NY Daily News
| 6 months ago
Somodevilla/Getty Shamed former CIA chief David Petraeus could be called to give evidence at the Senate Beghazi inquiry Despite an adultery scandal that ended David Petraeus ' tenure as CIA chief, the general may be called to testify in a Senate...
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CNSNews.com
| 6 months ago
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate intelligence committee, says her "biggest concern" about the Sept. 11 terror attack in Benghazi is the lack of security, despite numerous threats: "There are literally hundreds of threat warnings in the...
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Epoch Times
| 6 months ago
Senate Intelligence Committee during a full committee hearing on "World Wide Threats" on January 31, 2012, in Washington D.C. Petraeus might be called in to testify in a Senate inquiry regarding the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. (...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 6 months ago
While senior politicians are denying there are any national security implications, there are questions about who was told about the FBI investigation into General Petraeus. The resignation of the spy chief comes as the CIA is due to give evidence at...
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The Hindustan Times
| 6 months ago
The plot surrounding the shock resignation of CIA chief David Petraeus thickened on Sunday with reports that his affair was exposed when the FBI investigated threatening emails from his lover to a mystery second woman. Republicans, meanwhile,...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
The resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus will not have much impact on Senate hearings on the Libyan consulate attack, a ranking committee member said. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said on ABC's "This Week" the interim agency Director Mike...
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Fox News
| 6 months ago
FoxNews.com Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Sunday the Capitol Hill investigations into the Libya terrorist attack also will address the scandal surrounding CIA Director David Petraeus, including...
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Fox News
| 6 months ago
FoxNews.com After more than nine weeks of trying to reconcile their story line with that of the State Department and the CIA, the Pentagon finally released its timeline of the Libya terror attack during a Friday afternoon, off-camera briefing with an...
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The New York Times
| 6 months ago
In November 2011, President Obama stood before the Australian Parliament and issued a veiled challenge to China 's ambitions in Asia: As a Pacific nation, the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 6 months ago
India has decided to send an armed contingent of its specially-trained commandos to guard the Indian Embassy in violence-hit Libyan capital of Tripoli. Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, during his media interaction on Saturday, said a decision...
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The Journal Gazette
| 6 months ago
Marines arrived in the Libyan capital more than 23 hours after the deadly Sept. 11 assault on a diplomatic mission in the city of Benghazi began, a Pentagon timeline released Friday shows. A second team tasked with protecting Americans in the...
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International Business Times
| 6 months ago
The Pentagon released Friday a timeline of the events that transpired on the night of Sept. 11 in Benghazi which stated that top U.S. defense officials were notified of the attack within an hour of the initial assault on the consulate but assistance...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 6 months ago
Pentagon leaders knew of the Sept. 11 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi an hour after it began, but were unable to mobilise reinforcements based in Europe in time to prevent the death of the US ambassador, according to a timeline released on...
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Reuters
| 6 months ago
Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States September 11, 2012...Consulate in Benghazi an hour after it began, but were unable to mobilize...
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Washington Post
| 6 months ago
Marines arrived in the Libyan capital more than 23 hours after the deadly Sept. 11 assault on a diplomatic mission in the city of Benghazi began, a Pentagon timeline released Friday shows. A second team tasked with protecting Americans in the...
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Fox News
| 6 months ago
FoxNews.com The Pentagon on Friday acknowledged that it took almost 22 hours from the start of the Libya consulate attack for the closest American Special Operations response team to arrive at a staging base in southern Italy. While officials...
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Baltimore Sun
| 6 months ago
CIA Director David Petraeus resigned as head of the main U.S. spy agency on Friday, saying he had engaged in an extramarital affair and acknowledging that he "showed extremely poor judgment." In a letter to the CIA workforce, Petraeus, 60, said that...
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The independent
| 6 months ago
I have been paralysed from the neck downwards since I was born in 1971 and spent my life wheelchair ... If you ever wanted to know who would win in a fight between a baby and a dragon then wonder no more.... Google have confirmed plans to roll out...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 6 months ago
Libya Even before the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, diplomats from other nations and Libyan security officials had questioned the wisdom of a U.S. decision to rely...
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Fox News
| 6 months ago
New Pentagon details show that the first U.S. military unit arrived in Libya more than 14 hours after the attack on the consulate in Benghazi was over and four Americans, including the ambassador, were dead. A Defense Department timeline obtained by...
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Associated Press
| 6 months ago
New Pentagon details show that the first U.S. military unit arrived in Libya more than 14 hours after the attack on the consulate in Benghazi was over, and four Americans, including the ambassador, were dead. A Defense Department timeline obtained by...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
The United State Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, 52, was killed in an attack on the a consular building in Benghazi, Libya on September 12, 2012. The ambassador and at least two other staff members were killed when the compound was overrun...
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Boston.com
| 6 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is telling Congress that the military did not have armed aircraft near Libya that could have helped defend against the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
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The Washington Times
| 6 months ago
Special Operations Command , at nearby MacDill Air Force Base. This headquarters dispatches our military's special operators Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines on missions in the most difficult and dangerous places on earth...Benghazi, Libya , before,...
