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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-FL), Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, plans to ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton why U.S. diplomatic security agents in Benghazi were not initially armed when the attacks on the embassy compound happened. The Congresswoman

A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi told Breitbart News that Senators who listened to closed door testimony about the Benghazi attack were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed. Additionally,

State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told the press pool today that there are no updates on the independent investigative report of the security failures and response of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. When asked if the

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon testify before US lawmakers at an open-door hearing about the deadly September attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, a top lawmaker said. Clinton will appear before the House Committee on Foreign

State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner addressed reports that another top official in Syria has defected and fled the country. Toner said, “If true, this is obviously another sign of the regime crumbling from within as those closest to Assad

State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner called the recent vote by the UN to grant Palestine observer status a “setback” to the peace process with Israel. His statement came in response to a New York Times article asking the US

For almost four minutes during the short State Department daily press briefing today, multiple reporters attempted to press State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner into condemning Israel for reported acts that Toner could not even confirm were true. Reporters bounced

President Obama issued a statement today saying that if Syria were to use or proliferate chemical weapons that it would cross a “red line” with the American government. However, neither spokesmen for the White House or the State Department had

It’s become clear we’re never going to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until we first resolve the fake refugee fiasco. I turned to noted ME scholar and director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Asaf Romirowsky to gain his

Environmentalists are furious that potential Secretary of State nominee and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice owns stock in TransCanada Corp, the pipeline firm that would benefit from the Keystone XL pipeline, which the State Department would have to approve. In an

(AP) Pressure mounting on Obama over pipeline decisionBy JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONEmbarking on a second term, President Barack Obama faces mounting pressure on a decision he had put off during his re-election campaign: whether to approve the $7 billion proposed Keystone

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed today that although Palestine forced a vote in the UN over observer status — a maneuver the US has expressly been against — it still wants Congress to continue to give almost $500 million

Following last year’s failed attempt by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain admission to the United Nations as a full member state via UN Security Council vote (known as the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, or UDI), PA President Mahmoud Abbas

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has blistered U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for her incompetence and lies to the American people about Benghazi. But he has refrained from criticizing Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State whose negligence allowed terrorists to attack the

The New York Times, in its reprehensible campaign to vilify Israel and whitewash Hamas, has resorted to lying about terrorists Israel has killed by pretending the targets were journalists.  The author, one David Carr, reported in a piece titled “Using

A State Department spokesperson has announced that singer-songwriter, entrepeneur, and all-around embodiment of sprezzatura Andrew W.K. will not represent the United States as a cultural ambassador to Bahrain. Spokesperson Noel Clay said the planned trip was “a mistake and not

Congressman Peter King (R-NY), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, was still demanding answers about Ambassador Susan Rice and the response in Libya on “Meet the Press” this morning. Congressman King: “First, let me just say, I think

Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier is one accomplished dude: international rock icon, music producer, club owner, motivational speaker, and television host — and soon, he’ll be known as a world statesman. Known by his fans as Andrew W.K., Wilkes-Krier is known for

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and AYA BATRAWYAssociated PressCAIROSupporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi clashed Friday in the worst violence since he took office, while he defended a decision to give himself near-absolute power to root out what he called “weevils

Yesterday the United States, Brunei, and Indonesia formed the US-Asia Pacific Comprehensive Partnership for a Sustainable Energy Future, and President Barack Obama promised up to $6 billion for the green energy idea. “The Partnership will offer a framework for consolidating

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) erased the name of a U.S. official attending a Monday conference in Saudi Arabia on banning “defamation of Islam” after her presence was widely reported by conservative media. An initial post on the OIC

A spirited exchange between Associated Press reporter Matthew Lee and spokesperson Victoria Nuland marked the U.S. State Department’s daily briefing Monday on the continued violence between Israel and Hamas. Lee slammed Nuland for their silence on Israel in what the

In a little-noticed exchange from the State Department on Friday, State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland openly refused to say whether an Israeli ground assault on Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip would fall under the Israeli right to self-defense. Here’s

By CHRIS TALBOTTAP Music WriterNASHVILLE, Tenn.Jason Mraz will make history next month when he performs in Myanmar to raise awareness about human trafficking. Mraz will headline a free outdoor concert on Dec. 16 at People’s Square in Yangon, at the

Today, five Democratic Congresswomen attacked Republican criticism of U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, who is reputedly Barack Obama’s pick to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. They actually called her an “American treasure.” This was after Barack Obama called Republican criticism

(AP) Israel assassinates Hamas military chief in Gaza By IBRAHIM BARZAK and JOSEF FEDERMANAssociated PressGAZA CITY, Gaza StripIsrael carried out a blistering offensive of more than 20 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, assassinating Hamas’ military commander and targeting

Iran on Saturday brushed aside newly-imposed US sanctions over media censorship, which it said was essential to preserve “moral values” in the Islamic republic. Dismissing them as “unimportant”, Islamic Culture and Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini said the sanctions “against the

Mexican authorities charged 14 federal police officers with attempted murder over a shooting in August that wounded two US government employees, reportedly CIA agents. The attorney general’s office said on Friday the officers, who were formally placed under arrest, “attempted

On Election Day, the State Department invited a top economic analyst to hold a briefing for foreign reporters about the U.S. economy. The analyst’s message was clear: the U.S. is getting downgraded again.  Kathy Bostjancic, director of Macroeconomic Analysis for

The cover-up of what really happened in Benghazi continues: the State Department, responding to requests from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to release documents pertaining to the debacle, will make those records available for review only this Thursday and Friday.

Even as Obama and Ahmadinejad deny that any nuclear negotiations have been entered into by the U.S. and Iran, Senior Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett is reportedly negotiating with Tehran on Obama’s behalf.  If true this claim could confirm the New

Less than a month before the Sept 11 attack on Benghazi, State Department and other officials met to consider scuttling the Benghazi consulate and moving operations into the CIA annex less than a mile away.  In a cable from an

Patricia Smith, mother of slain State Department technician Sean Patrick Smith, who was killed in the Sept. 11 U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, is mincing no words as to whom she blames for her son’s death. She says Barack

But the stonewalling didn’t stop there. After multiple reports that classified documents have been left exposed, to be found by looters and journalists, at the the Benghazi site, reporters in the State Department press pool are questioning how the administration

Since the Obama Administration has launched the Accountability Review Board (ARB) to investigate the murders of U.S. diplomats and intelligence gatherers in Benghazi, the State Department has been tight-lipped on any developments discovered by news agencies. That changed this week