Paula Broadwell
Paula Dean wreath Broadwell ( born November 9, 1972 in Bismarck, North Dakota) is an American journalist and anti-terrorism expert. The announcement of an extramarital affair with David Petraeus, the former head of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, ISAF, led on 9 November 2012 on his resignation as director of the CIA.
Training
Broadwell born Kranz grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota, and attended high school there.
1995 Broadwell graduated at the Military Academy at West Point. She studied at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, the University of Amman and made a Master of Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She also participates in the Department of War Studies, King's College London Ph.D. program.
Business and Career
Broadwell served in the United States Army and the United States Army Reserve in August 2012 and was lieutenant colonel of the reserve. She was Deputy Director of the Jebsen Center for Anti -terrorism studies the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and worked for the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI.
In addition, they wrote reports and analyzes, among other things for the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Time magazine. She worked as an embedded journalist during the war in Afghanistan. Among other things, they talked about the village Tarok Kolache, which in 2010 was completely destroyed by an attack by the U.S. forces. In January 2012, Petraeus was biography All In: The Education of General David Petraeus published, Broadwell has co-authored with Vernon Loeb.
Paula Broadwell is married to a doctor and mother of two children. They met in the joint military service in Germany know. Broadwell lives in Dilworth, a suburb of Charlotte.
Broadwell and David Petraeus
In November 2012, an affair of Broadwell with Petraeus became known after the FBI threatening emails from Broadwell had studied at the friend of the couple Petraeus Socialite Jill Kelley, who had thus turned to the FBI. The motive was jealousy because Broadwell Kelley suspected intentions on the General to have. Jill Kelley, the wife of a surgeon in Tampa, organized as a society lady Parties for the U.S. Army, was involved in a high-profile affair with the successor to Petraeus in Afghanistan, General John R. Allen.
Have met each are to Broadwell and Petraeus in 2006, when this has lectured at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Broadwell made back then there their master and is said to have spoken to him. For research on his biography, she moved for about a year to Afghanistan, where Petraeus served as Supreme Commander of the ISAF.
David Petraeus came a few days after the U.S. presidential election in 2012 back in the course named after him Petraeus affair by the Office of the Director of the CIA for private reasons. His resignation was accepted by President Obama on 9 November 2012.
In November 2012, the House of Broadwell was searched by the FBI after it had been suspected, obtain secret information from Petraeus and to have published. In a speech to the University of Denver in late October 2012, she had claimed that Al- Qaeda terrorists had the U.S. consulate in Benghazi stormed on September 11, 2012 ( which led to the assassination of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and several companions) to there captured Libyan militiamen to release what has been denied by the CIA.
Works
- Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb: All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. Penguin, 2012 ISBN 978-1-101-55230-8.