There appears to be a slim majority of Germans who favor more euro-centric measures. But there is also a growing anti-euro movement exemplified by the Alternatives for Germany party that is gaining strength as described by Stratfor.
"We've seen the White House do a 180," said Reva Bhalla, a Middle East analyst at Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm.
Bhalla said the White House was under growing pressure to at least acknowledge its allies' findings.
“If you want to do it in a non-alerting fashion, you’d want to be subtle and spread out the purchases of gunpowder, but you could learn how, purchase the materials and construct a bomb like this in an afternoon,” said Scott Stewart, a former special agent with the U.S. State Department and now vice president at Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence company.
Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author most recently of The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate.
Washington University's Neil Richards, Stratfor's Fred Burton and Bloomberg Contributing Editor Richard Falkenrath discuss the role of surveillance with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."
But Scott Stewart, a terrorism specialist at the intelligence firm Stratfor, says al-Qaida-inspired terrorists haven't shown much interest in little attacks.
CNBC's Brian Sullivan speaks to NBC News Terrorism Expert Bob Windrem about the investigation of the Boston bombing. Windrem says it is very clear at this point there has not been an arrest. Fred Burton, Stratfor, weighs in.
Stratfor, the international political risk consultancy, wrote in a note to clients: “As a less popular politician with a range of difficult decisions ahead of him, Maduro will have to work doubly hard to maintain credibility as a leader, control a historically fractious group of politicians and address his country’s major economic challenges.”
"How many countries have been overrun since the end of the Cold War? How many dictators have been deposed?" asked Rodger Baker, an analyst for Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm. "And where is North Korea? It's still there."
