With all the chest thumping over “runaway spending” and the growing deficit, you would think the party that claims to be the fiscal hawks would look at cutting spending in all areas of the budget. Well that’s not the case. It turns out the Republicans want to add an additional $17 billion to the defense […]
This morning, speaking from the diplomatic room of the White House, President Obama vowed “unwavering support” to the people of Haiti. Full transcript below the jump. THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. This morning I want to extend to the people of Haiti the deep condolences and unwavering support of the American people following yesterday’s terrible […]
I’m still catching up on all the news of Honduras, but I found this article to not be that newsworthy: The Obama administration worked in recent days to prevent President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster, said a senior U.S. official. The State Department, in particular, communicated to Honduran officials on the ground that President Barack Obama wouldn’t […]
From the Bush legacy of “winning hearts and minds”: The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News. Officials say the […]
The Guardian is reporting that the Obama team has signaled they may open some low-level diplomacy with Hamas: The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush’s doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say. The move to open contacts with Hamas, which […]
How many times have we heard about all the “expertise” Condi Rice has on Russia? Interesting that during this conflict we haven’t heard much from her. Well it turns out Condi too busy on “holiday” to be bothered with the problem, though the State Department claims she has made over “90 phone calls” about the […]
It turns out that these breaches have also hit John McCain and Hillary Clinton now. It really sounds like there was a total breakdown in management at the State Department and a larger, outside investigation should now be conducted. Of course this is something typical with the Bush administration. The integrity they brought to Washington […]
Just now breaking. Two State Department contractrual employees have been fired over it and a third has been “disciplined”. This apparently happened back in January and the Obama campaign is asking why it took so long to notify him. This same type thing happened back in 1992 when people in the Bush 41 administration accessed […]
The people in Pakistan elected a new leader, but Bush is trying to pressure the country into keeping Musharraf in power: The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his position, a move that Western diplomats and U.S. officials say could trigger […]
The State Department has said there are no plans to life the Cuban embargo. This has to be the stupidest policy this country has held onto. We now work with other countries that used to be much worse enemies.