Security at stake; State Department needs to be self-critical.(OPED)

The Washington Times;  August 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......escaped necessary scrutiny: the U.S. State Department. Not because the diplomats at Foggy...amenable to tyranny and terrorism. The State Department was the lead agency for combating terrorism before September 11, though the State Department cannot take the fall for stunning...

A crippled institution; The State Department needs revamping.(OPED)

The Washington Times;  August 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ......WASHINGTON TIMES Current and former State Department officials have been taking to the...went public with his critique of the State Department in an address to the American Enterprise...Armitage and others who try to defend the State Department would put aside their desire to shoot...

Complicity in Child Abduction.(more action by State Department required in...

Insight on the News;  July 23, 2001 ;     700+ words ......being abducted by a parent. But the State Department is pursuing action in less than 30...been outspoken critics of how the State Department has handled international parental...Office (GAO) probes would get the State Department to provide direct answers. But, today...

Bush's policy goals threatened; State Department undermines...

The Washington Times;  June 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......embarrass the president, explains a State Department official a comment echoed by others...and want him to lose in 2004 but the State Department's actions have clearly undermined...Enterprise Institute speech on the State Department's incompetence, the title of Mr. Gingrich...

REP. SHAYS COMMENTS ON MAJORITY'S 'INVESTIGATION' OF STATE DEPARTMENT...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Report on Majority's "Investigation" of State Department Office of Inspector General Rep. Christopher...investigation into the management of the State Department's Office of Inspector General ("OIG...allegations of wrongdoing against the State Department Inspector General Howard ...

Feds probe bugging State Department workers quizzed

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 12, 1999 ;     576 words ......Federal investigators are questioning State Department employees, cleaning workers and others...officials said. The bugging of the State Department became public knowledge last week...security on the seventh floor of the State Department, where Secretary of State Madeleine...

Debating U.S. diplomacy.(response to article on the U.S. State Department...

Foreign Policy;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Gingrich's cover story Rogue State Department (July/August 2003) drew widespread...UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE The State Department that Newt Gingrich describes in his diatribe ( Rogue State Department, July/August 2003) bears no...

U.S. had better get on the ball and fortify State Department

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 30, 2001 ;     700+ words ......better get on the ball and fortify State Department By LEE H. HAMILTON Monday, April 30...a state of serious disrepair. The State Department -- the principal agency of diplomacy...insecure facilities. Strengthening the State Department is an urgent national security priority...

VOA NEWS: STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS PROSECUTION OF BLACKWATER GUARDS STILL...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 30, 2007 ;     617 words ......following story: By David Gollust The State Department said Tuesday that U.S.-hired private...VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department. Officials here say Iraqi authorities...despite a disclosure Monday that State Department investigators offered them an immunity...

Report: State Department warns Boeing it may be fined over microchip in...

AP Worldstream;  July 6, 2005 ;     582 words ......Worldstream 07-06-2005 Dateline: SEATTLE The State Department has reportedly warned Boeing Co. that...rather than a military one. But the State Department alleges that between 2000 and 2003...restrictions. Boeing contends it ignored State Department edicts because its lawyers said ...

Takeover by State Department worries USIA employees.(World)

The Washington Times;  December 21, 1998 ;     700+ words ...The State Department is to hand over to Congress today a long-awaited plan to...jobs or be used as a domestic public relations arm of the State Department. State Department officials said the mission - good communications - is more...

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS SEAN MCCORMACK HOLDS STATE...

Political Transcript Wire;  November 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ...STATE DEPARTMENT REGULAR NEWS BRIEFING NOVEMBER 18...facts-and-figures morning at the State Department. Yes, indeed. I've asked Undersecretary...was a summer intern here at the State Department. Happy to report that we have a...

State Department Warns Boeing May Be Fined

AP Online;  July 7, 2005 ;     589 words ......Online 07-07-2005 Dateline: SEATTLE The State Department has reportedly warned Boeing Co. that...rather than a military one. But the State Department alleges that between 2000 and 2003...restrictions. Boeing contends it ignored State Department edicts because its lawyers said the...

State Department fires two for looking at Obama's file

Charleston Gazette;  March 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON - Two contract employees for the State Department have been fired and a third disciplined...14, and were detected by internal State Department computer checks, McCormack said. The...records without a proper reason. The State Department would not release the names of those...

Rogue state department. (Cover Story).

Foreign Policy;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......around the globe because the U.S. State Department has abdicated values and principles...and culture shock will enable the State Department to effectively spread U.S. values...media and intellectual elites, the State Department (as an institution), and the Foreign...