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President Barack Obama’s status as an avid golfer is apparently internationally known. Newly released documents by the State Department show that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy gave President Barack Obama almost $40,000 in luxury designer gifts, including a $7,750 Hermes

The anti-Semitism from “Human Rights” organizations continues unabated. Ten of them, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have nominated Egyptian activist Mona Seif for this year’s Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. So who is Mona Seif? Do

Secretary Kerry was asked about recent reports of State Department employees who have been threatened or blocked from testifying before Congress over the security failures that led up to the Benghazi attack. Kerry said that there is an “enormous amount

Multiple reporters pressed State Department Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell on Tuesday about reports of the CIA giving Afghan President Karzai bags of cash for “various purposes” in addition to other U.S. aid. “Doesn’t this fuel corruption?” one reporter asked. Ventrell

Victoria Toensing, Republican Counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, says her client, a State Department official now considered a whistle-blower in the investigation of the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, has been “threatened” by Obama administration officials. According to

Regardless of planned hearings to continue to investigate the deadly September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, the State Department is finding ways to drag its feet in releasing information Congress needs to investigate the assault that took the

On Tuesday, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John McCain (R-AZ) called for a Senate select committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack of September 11, 2012 that resulted in the death of four Americans including Libyan Ambassador

Attorney Victoria Toensing represents a whilstleblower from the State Department who is intent on telling the truth about the attacks on the US Consolate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.  Yesterday she went public with the news that the State Department is refusing

The family of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers reportedly received over $100,000 worth of state, local and federal benefits over the past decade.  Sources told News Center 5 in Boston that they had seen 500 pages of documents and that the Tsarnaev

Acting Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell defended the State Department restricting access to Congress from lower-level staffers directly involved with the Benghazi investigation. Ventrell said that it was “appropriate” for the FBI and the Accountability Review Board to interview the Department

The State Department on Monday said that Congress should not have the chance to interview lower-level employees of State about Benghazi because the State Department has done their own investigation, and Congress should let it go at that. State Department

Associated Press reporter Matt Lee slammed the State Department today for not giving useful accounts of meetings with top foreign officials by State Department officials. Lee expressed his frustration saying that he didn’t want to hear a generic explanation of

Acting Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters on Monday that he was unaware of anyone in the State Department, including those that testified before Congress about security failures leading up to the Benghazi attack, of any “whistleblowers” within the Department.

State Department reporters asked acting Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell to confirm a New York Times article that states President Karzai receives monthly payments, in cash, from the U.S. government. According to the Time, Karzai said, “Yes, the office of national

An eyewitness to 2012’s infamous Benghazi attack says the U.S. did not employ all of the defensive resources it could have to save the American lives lost the night of September 11th. A special operations member who witnessed the attack

According to former US Attorney Joe DiGenova, the State Department is standing in the way of lawyers trying to represent whistleblowers in the ongoing investigation into the events at the US Consolate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.   DiGenova appeared with

After days of tough talk from the White House regarding Syria’s use of chemical weapons, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell emerged on April 26 to say no action will be taken against the country based on “intelligence assessments” until the

QUESTION: Today there was a hearing of the Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threat Subcommittee in the House. A couple of the members and even one of the panelists were dismayed that there was not any State Department representation there to

Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell was pressed by an AP reporter on Thursday on the announcement that the U.S. recognizes the Syrian government using chemical weapons. The AP reporter asked, “What has changed in the last 25 hours when you said

QUESTION: I was wondering if the State Department had any reaction to the report by a number of House Republican chairmen on the Benghazi attack which was a bit critical of the role of former Secretary Clinton.MR. VENTRELL: Right. Well,

As media ruminate about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s possible motives in the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks, one that can be laid to rest is any suggestion that the U.S. has failed to assist  financially the countries associated with the ethnic

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and JOHN L. MONEAssociated PressWEST, TexasRescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris while

(AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged Wednesday that nobody had lied about last year’s attack on a US mission in Libya that killed four Americans, and urged US lawmakers to move on. The former senator found the

This week’s episode of Hawaii Five-O correctly portrayed North Korea as a brutal, isolated nation that harbors terrorists. But the CBS show’s latest installment, which aired on the 101st birthday of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, jumped the shark all

Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell told the State Department press pool not to “read too much into” the fact that the press was cut out of a meeting on Tuesday with Secretary Kerry and the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia. Ventrell

A massive probe was under way Tuesday after two bombs struck the Boston Marathon, killing at least three and wounding more than 100. Monday’s blasts near the finishing line raised fears of a terrorist attack more than a decade after

On Thursday, Patricia Smith, mother of State Department employee Sean Smith, who was killed by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, called for a Congressional select committee to investigate just what happened that fateful night. Writing to Rep.

Did you know that the Obama Administration considers tulips, violas, and begonias essential to our national security? The State Department has plans to spend more than $700,000 for gardening at a U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Belgium.  Truman Hall, located in

(AP) – Russia’s non-governmental organizations on Thursday demanded President Vladimir Putin prove they received nearly $1 billion from foreign sponsors, a claim he has used to justify sweeping raids on hundreds of groups. The crackdown has drawn strong criticism from

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: All right, here are the two questions. One is the fact that it’s — it’s sort of annoying that we’re having this conversation one year later and that virtually nothing was done and all

(AFP) – The United States reacted with concern Wednesday after Iran unveiled a new uranium production facility and two extraction mines, but said it had not been “blindsided” by the news. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed the advances on Tuesday

QUESTION: All right. And I just want to – following up on the question from yesterday about this Jay-Z-Beyonce thing.MR. VENTRELL: Yeah.QUESTION: It is correct that the State Department had nothing to do with this at all, is that right?MR.