The memo also reveals details about an “underground drug ring” was operating near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and supplied State Department security contractors with drugs.
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The U.S. State Department canceled its billion surveillance drone competition, saying none of the proposals met its requirements, according to the U.S. government’s Federal Business Opportunities website.
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The New York Times reports the Department of Justice investigated national security leaks given to Times reporter David Sanger over his story last year about the Stuxnet virus by pulling all the email and phone records of government officials who communicated with the reporter.
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The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to the Associated Press.
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Tony and Cherie Blair have come under fire after it emerged that their charities have been given nearly £1m from the American governmentâs foreign aid budget. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State then and would have been responsible for the cash
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“We got an official letter from the Secretary of State, telling me who they were, what their authority was under U.S. law and telling me they want to review these files to see if they’re class one munitions”
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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) questioned Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at a hearing Tuesday about the low morale of employees of DHS’ Immigration of Customs Enforcement agency.
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Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of State William J. Burns to travel to Japan, China, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea and Mongolia
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It slams all the usual suspects. Notable exception is Myanmar where the human rights seem to have improved big time ever since the big US multinationals are allowed to do business there. I wonder how that works?
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Anne Smedinghoff was killed walking to a media event, not in an armoured vehicle, but US denies misleading reporters
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