U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and India’s Junior Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, share a light moment upon the former’s arrival at the ITC hotel chain’s Green Building in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 19, 2009. Clinton, who is on a three-day visit to India, […]
State Dept. Double Standard:
Diplomats Barred From Obama’s Berlin Speech, But Not McCain’s In Ottawa
–headline at THINK PROGRESS, 07/25/2008
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Night before Obama flies abroad, Rice bars embassies from aiding candidates
John Byrne
Published: Monday July 21, 2008
‘If they want to rent a bus, show them where they can rent a bus’
The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of […]
Isn’t that how Condi’s boss handled the Axis of Evil?
Hu cares?
1 hour, 24 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged China Monday to speak to the Dalai Lama as the “only policy that is sustainable in Tibet,” during talks with her visiting Indian counterpart.
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Images: (Condi Hu?) state.gov; (Lama) juniper.typepad.com;
US diplomats sometimes go off-message
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press WriterFri Feb 1, 6:31 AM ET
More and more, top government diplomats are straying from official Bush foreign policy as the administration wanes, leaving Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice struggling to keep them in check.
Twice just this week, Rice and her aides had to rebuke, disavow or […]
Because Part I of this series was so incredible, I could not believe it was true. Patapsco Creek Jack wrote the other day about a
Washington Post on-line discussion with Dana Priest.
Voila.
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PART THE THIRD
From the Sunday London Times…
January 27, 2008
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Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
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Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington
AN investigation into […]
not unlike our handling of the Native-Americans in 18th and 19th centuries.
But, a successful stand-up realizes that timing is everything.
As the Turks could say, “Atta boy, Ataturk!“
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U.S. driving Turkey, Iran together, former U.S. envoy warns
By Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers Fri Nov 2, 1:00 PM ET
WASHINGTON — The retired general who served as President […]
Rice answers anger over Iraq assignments
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is trying to quell a revolt among U.S. diplomats angry over attempts to force foreign service officers to work in Iraq or face dismissal.
Rice plans to send a cable to all U.S. embassies and missions […]
Now, how could we have expected this administration
to have foreseen that little blip?
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By Mark Heinrich
November 1, 2007
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday Russia and China had been blocking tough U.N. sanctions against Iran for months and pledged a drive to impose them if Iran did not halt nuclear activity within two […]
Criminal probe into U.S. Embassy in Iraq construction
By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007
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WASHINGTON —
McClatchy Newspapers
has also learned that:— Aspects of the embassy’s construction are the subject of at least one U.S. government criminal investigation, according to officials in Congress and the administration. They spoke […]
Rice worried by Putin’s broad powers
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 47 minutes ago
MOSCOW - The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow’s commitment to democracy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
“In any country, if you don’t have countervailing institutions, the […]