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Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni listens while US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to press before a meeting at the State Department May 17, 2013 in Washington, DC.
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reveal confused and occasionally sharp negotiations among officials at the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI , the White House and the State Department as they scrambled to craft so-called talking points
The point of such an approach is to terminate all possible actions by foreign intelligence that could pose a threat to Russia’s security ... This, certainly, does not refer to diplomats who do their duties on behalf of the US State Department.
I've just heard about it and obviously will want to talk to my friends at the State Department and seek legal advice and all the other things that go with itMore quotes »
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US, Turkey project united front on Syria
and European allies in Jordan , while Syria's opposition will discuss its plans at a meeting in Istanbul ."The goal here," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, "is to get both sides back to the table to work toward a path toward a political Read more »
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Hudson: Not everyone is out to destroy Hillary Clinton
Politico's Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman on Thursday afternoon: "Republicans now seem willing to cast the State Department response to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya as a referendum on Hillary Rodham Clinton 's fitness to lead the country - and are Read more »
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NYPD police training assistance in Haiti to be awarded
been training and mentoring Haitian police officers since 2010. They've been providing training in conducting investigations, anti-kidnapping strategies and general policing support.The costs of the NYPD assistance are reimbursed by the State Department. Read more »
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State Department sought to change Libya talking points
Nuland expressed concerns about the talking points, writing that they "could be abused by members of Congress to beat the State Department for not paying attention to agency warnings so why would we want to seed the Hill."The reference to al-Sharia was deleted, Read more »
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Murdock: Benghazi is biggest coverup since Watergate
Greg Hicks , just before Stevens' cell phone clicked off on the night of Sept. 11.-- In a newly revealed Sept. 12 e-mail to State Department staffers, a top Middle Eastern specialist named Elizabeth Jones recalls consulting Libya 's ambassador in Washington. Read more »
Around the web
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Farrow: The Real Benghazi Scandal
Farrow: As a former State Department official who worked with Ambassador Chris Stevens in the months before his murder in Benghazi, I feel that inquiry's urgency. But the congressional hearings that have dominated the last week of headlines -- with more promised 11:32 AM from Drudge ReTort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs Read more »
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A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place," the Accountability Review Board concluded. Four State Department officials were reassigned or resigned as a result. "We clearly fell down on the job with regard to Benghazi," Deputy 9:44 AM from The Seattle Times Read more »
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WHAT DID HILLARY AND OBAMA DISCUSS AT 10PM ON 9/11/12?
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, she recounted first learning at about 4 p.m. on September 11 that the State Department facility in Benghazi was under attack. That was very shortly after the siege started. Over the hours that followed, Clinton 9:12 AM from The Astute Blogger Read more »
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Report on International Religious Freedom
will release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 2012 on Monday, May 20, 2013, at 11:30 a.m. in the State Department Press Briefing Room. Secretary Kerry will introduce the report and Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom 9:03 AM from US State Dept. - Travel Bureau Read more »
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Turkey 'softens opposition' to Syria conference
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan answers questions at the US State Department in Washington, DC on May 16, 2013. Turkey has softened its opposition toward a Russia-US brokered international conference on Syria following Prime Minister Recep Tay Turkey has 7:36 AM from AlterNet.org Read more »
