fied information they obtained from the FBI, CIA, State Department and US Army with journalists. They were Shamai Le

nk cards. It also notified the passport office in the State Department the legal attaches at the Hong Kong consulate. Th

vernors, overseeing global broadcast services. An expert on Asian affairs, Kathleen founded the U.S.-Korea Foundation and worked as Senior Advisor in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under President Clinton. With deep political roots on Capitol Hill, Kathleen served on the staff of Senator

-Korea Foundation and worked as Senior Advisor in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under Pr

come of negotiations, rather than a precondition. State Department officials are skeptical, but they should test the

red in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when he referred to the "promise of the future."

proaching leisure, those days have been long gone. Even offices created expressly to explore policy options stretching beyond a twenty minute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind-routinely get pulled into the maelstrom of daily struggles to manage breaking developments through some combinati

options stretching beyond a twenty minute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind-routinely get

options stretching beyond a twenty minute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind-routinely get

proaching leisure, those days have been long gone. Even offices created expressly to explore policy options stretching beyond a twenty minute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind-routinely get pulled into the maelstrom of daily struggles to manage breaking developments through some combinati

, whose office said he discussed the dispute with the State Department. Ms. Rahall also pursued a second strategy. "The

rote in February 2009 in one of more than a dozen State Department cables obtained by the antisecrecy group WikiLeak

lity must eventually give way to the more mundane realities of running the department. She is midway through a five-year plan to increase the size of the State Department’s foreign- service staff by 25 percent and double USAID. And she’s taken a leaf from the Pentagon playbook and launched a “Q.D.D.R.”— Quadrennial Diplo

an Assange, began posting thousands of classified State Department cables online. Candid descriptions of foreign lea

d others. Epstein paid $15,000 a month in rent to the State Department, but he charged Fisher and his colleagues $20,000

ogether. Yet in the 15 months from May 2011 to July 2012, the Quds Force and Hizballah attempted 20 attacks, by the count of Matthew Levitt, a former State Department counterterrorism official. “Hizballah and the Quds Force traded speed for tradecraft and reaped what they sowed,” Levitt writes in a January report f

23. The “Consul General- Hong Kong confirmed that Hong Kong authorities were notified that Mr. Snowden’s passport was revoked June 22,” according to the State Department’s senior watch officer, as reported by ABC news on June 23, 2013. Mr. Snowden could not have been unaware of the government’s pursuit of him, since th

d. The foreign policy establishment had a long and well-honed relationship with MBS’s rival, the crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN). Key NSA and State Department figures were alarmed that Kushner’s discussions and fast-advancing relationship with MBS would send a dangerous message to MBN. And of course it did.

nsactions. BAE paid $79 million in penalties, and the State Department imposed a “policy of denial” for export licenses

alias or agent.” Goldberg, 660 F. Supp. 2d at 432; cf Nat’l Council of Resistance of Iran, 373 F.3d at 157-58 (“Just as it is silly to suppose” that State Department designations of terrorist organizations did not survive organizational name changes, “so too it is implausible to think that Congress” did not “autho

ld of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, the State Department poured hundreds of millions into a new public- di

f Ancora Capital Management Pte, Ltd., China Highland Fund, and the board of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. A trade attorney and former State Department officer, Mr. Nealer previously served as trade policy advisor to the Senate Democratic Leadership. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he

99 that required all satellites to be licensed by the State Department as munitions under the International Traffic in A

ogether. Yet in the 15 months from May 2011 to July 2012, the Quds Force and Hizballah attempted 20 attacks, by the count of Matthew Levitt, a former State Department counterterrorism official. "Hizballah and the Quds Force traded speed for tradecraft and reaped what they sowed," Levitt writes in a January report f

through formal discussions with U.S. officials at the State Department, National Security Council, and Department of Def

ama team to shut down the peace process and drop any demands that Israel freeze settlements. This, in turn, has created a culture in Washington where State Department officials, not to mention politicians, are reluctant to even state publicly what is U.S. policy — that settlements are "an obstacle to peace" - for f

, as well as deliver a major speech on Middle East policy. But the resignation didn't come as a surprise to those who worked closest with Mitchell. A State Department official described to Newsweek a man increasingly annoyed by both parties' constant moving of the goal posts and the constraints of the administratio