Round-Up: Headgears in the Foreign Service
Headgear, headwear or headdress is the term for any element of clothing worn on one’s head for a variety of purposes — for protection, fashion, social convention or religious purposes. And our foreign...
View ArticleEvgeny Morozov Explains Why Secretary Clinton Should Join Anonymous
Evgeny Morozov writes in slate.com that the State Department and the online mob are both destroying “Internet freedom.” Excerpt: The diplomats’ problems are quite well-known by now. While Hillary...
View ArticleCompensating the Victims of the August 7, 1998 Embassy Bombings Would Set a...
Fourteen years ago today, between 10:30 am and 10:40 am local time (3:30–3:40 am Washington time), suicide bombers in trucks laden with explosives parked outside our embassies in Dar es Salaam,...
View ArticlePresident Obama Nominates John Kerry as 68th Secretary of State
“We do not want to concertina-wire America off from the world” - Senator John Kerry President Obama: ….I’m looking ahead to my second term. And I am very proud to announce my choice for America’s next...
View ArticleSecretary of State Scorecard: Work Done Not Miles Flown, Please
D.B. Des Roches is an associate professor at the Near East South Asia Institute for Strategic Studies. He recently published a commentary about John Kerry’s first trip overseas and the current...
View ArticleHouse GOP Releases Interim Benghazi Report: Uh-oh, But the Kraken is Still...
The House GOP recently released its interim report on the terrorist attacks on the temporary facilities in Benghazi. The report is released under the GOP committee chairs of the Armed Services, Foreign...
View ArticleWho killed King Joffrey? And what about the State Dept’s “missing” $6 billion?
– Domani Spero We recently posted about that $6 Billion Alert. What Does The Spox Say? Goring-ding-ding-ding … “Grossly Inaccurate” But …. On April 3, WaPo went with State Department inspector general...
View ArticleFormer State Dept DAS Raymond Maxwell Alleges Benghazi Document Scrub Pre-ARB...
Domani Spero Today via Sharyl Attkisson of the Daily Signal: As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward...
View ArticleState Dept Assistant Secretary Positions: How Far Back is “Recent Memory?”
– Domani Spero Recently, the State Department officially rejected criticisms that too many top diplomatic jobs have gone to political appointees rather than to career foreign service officers. The...
View ArticleSo wait — Hillary Clinton never got a state.gov email? What does the FAM say?
Posted: 01:05 EST Via NYT— from Michael S. Schmidt Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials...
View ArticleWatch: Hillary Clinton talks use of email in 2011 TODAY interview
Posted: 08:22 PST “I have a lot of security restraints on what I can and can’t do,” the then secretary of state tells Savannah Guthrie in an October 2011 interview. SOURCE: Today Show 03/04/2015...
View ArticleRabbit Hole News: State Dept’s Private Email Usage Policy, Plus Attn:...
Posted: 01:47 EST Updated: 11:19 EST Updated 15:14 EST Shortly after the NYT broke the story about the former secretary of state’s exclusive used of a personal email account to conduct government...
View ArticleDaily Press Briefing Needs IT and FOIA Specialists on HRC Emails, Plus HAK...
Posted: 1:25 am EDT Clip via PostTV Argghhhh! Whaaat? Email System The State Department has multiple automated information systems. All employees, including locally employed staff and contractors...
View ArticleVIDEO: Late-night laughs: Hillary Clinton E-mail Edition
Posted: 2:52 am EDT Via PostTV Hillary Clinton caused controversy after reports revealed she used a private e-mail account during her time as secretary of state. Late-night hosts Jon Stewart, Seth...
View ArticleQuote: “I did email with her … I don’t remember exactly how it showed up.”
Posted: 12:04 am EDT “I did email with her from time to time and I don’t remember exactly how it showed up.” Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew At a hearing at the House Financial Services Committee in...
View ArticleLittleSis: HRC Complex Corporate Ties
Posted: 10:37 am EDT “…our problems have never respected dividing lines between global economics and international diplomacy. And neither can our solutions. That is why I have put what I call...
View ArticleState Dept’s Wibbly Wobbly Jello Stance on Use of Private Email, Also Gummy...
Posted: 1:38 am EDT We’ve added to our timeline of the Clinton Email saga (see Clinton Email Controversy Needs Its Own Cable Channel, For Now, a Timeline). On August 24, 2015, State Dept. Spokesman...
View Article@StateDept’s Problematic Information Security Program and Colin Powell’s...
Posted: 2:10 am EDT AP Exclusive: Under Clinton, years of poor network security at State Department predated hack linked to Russia: http://t.co/8HD6ntLnQ1 — The Associated Press (@AP) October 19,...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Breaks Hillary Clinton’s Travel Miles as SecState, Plus JK’s Inner...
Posted: 2:30 am EDT In November 2013, David Rohde, a columnist for Reuters, and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize penned a lengthy piece for The Atlantic on How John Kerry Could End Up Outdoing...
View ArticleRiding with HRC and what’s this about tolerable ambos?
Posted: 7:08 pm EDT Hillary Clinton Aide ‘Spent Hours’ on Completely Insane Flow Chart https://t.co/zjluZckPru pic.twitter.com/eXrAFXGZFa — Tim Mak (@timkmak) December 31, 2015 Uh-oh! What’s this...
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