The Obama administration chose to listen to voices suggesting that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was moderate rather than those who warned it would resort to violence if it came to power, cables obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism show. The
In a move The State Department has called “unhelpful.” Google chief Eric Schmidt and former Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson, visited a rare North Korean computer lab
The new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is urging President Barack Obama to stand strong against new demands from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Morsi is calling for the release of convicted terrorist Omar Abdul Rahman. “I urge the
(AP) Clinton scheduled to return to work MondayWASHINGTONThe State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will return to work Monday, a little over a week after she was hospitalized with a blood clot in her head. The department
On Dec. 21, it was announced that former Marine Sgt. Jon Hammar was going to be released by Mexican authorities who had been holding the Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran on trumped up ‘gun-running’ charges for nearly 2 months, chained
Libya is pushing forward with its investigation into the deadly September 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, but fear of retaliation by Islamist extremists has proved a hurdle. Security reports point to the possible involvement of an Al-Qaeda-linked
By JEAN H. LEE and YOUKYUNG LEEAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaWhen he lands in North Korea, even Google’s executive chairman will likely have to relinquish his smartphone, leaving him disconnected from the global information network he helped build. Eric Schmidt is
By JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been released from a New York hospital where she was treated for a blood clot in her head. Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines says her doctors advised her that she has
The US Congress has approved a bill which aims to make it possible for Americans to adopt orphaned North Korean children. The North Korea Refugee Adoption Act instructs the US State Department to devise a comprehensive strategy to facilitate the
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department made a “grievous mistake” in keeping the U.S. mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressWASHINGTONSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. Clinton’s doctors discovered the clot Sunday while
(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent to the hospital on Sunday with a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month and was being assessed by doctors, a State Department spokesman said. “In
President Barack Obama enacted a law to counter Iran’s alleged influence in Latin America, through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department. The Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act, passed by lawmakers earlier
Outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who fell ill in early December and hasn’t been seen in public since, will be back at her desk on Monday, her closest aide said. Clinton, 65, has been off work sick since
It’s extremely hard to lose a government job, even when your poor performance results in the deaths of other Americans under your responsibility. Despite claims that heads were rolling after a report identified egregious security lapses in Benghazi, it appears
(Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has signed into law a new Islamist-drafted constitution he says will help end political turmoil and allow him to focus on fixing the fragile economy. Anxiety about the deepening economic crisis has gripped Egypt
Last July when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Egypt she was met with widespread protest from Coptic Christians and secular activists objecting to what they all believed was the Obama administration’s role in helping the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R) said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should and will testify before Congress next month about the events leading up to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed four Americans, including
In what his mother called a “Christmas miracle,” Jon Hammar, the ex-Marine and Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran whom Mexican authorities had detained and chained to a bed in a gang-infested prison on a trumped-up gun charge, was released on
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is “working from home” this week after a stomach virus left her so dehydrated that she fell and suffered a concussion. It’s a politically convenient week to be confined to home considering that it precluded
Reporters waiting for the daily State Department press briefing were overheard slamming the NRA press conference for content as well as their inability to control the room. “They [The NRA] basically said it’s [the CT shooting] everybody’s fault but ours,”
Benjamin Géza Affleck, director of films like Argo and star of films like Gigli, has been widely rumored to be interested in running for Senator John Kerry’s open seat once the Massachusetts Senator moves over to the State Department to
Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell resigned on Wednesday. Three other lower level State Department officials, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb, have been “relieved of their duties” and placed on administrative leave. These personnel moves are
Questions surround Secretary Clinton’s mysterious and timely concussion which prevented her from testifying on Capitol Hill this week. According to the State Department, the Secretary is “working from home.” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced today that the President
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced today that the President “accepts” the report presented by the Accountability Review Board to review the security failures that allowed the consequences of the attack on the US Special Mission in Benghazi. Carney
