While the country was distracted with the passing of the Republican’s disastrous health care bill today, Reuters reports that the State Department is considering a rule that would require certain visa applicants to give the government access to their social media accounts, in what many see as a push towards the…
Rex Tillerson, former oil man with no diplomatic experience and current Secretary of State, has finally cobbled together some thoughts concerning American foreign policy and the job he has been hired to do.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
Rex Tillerson, former oil man and current Secretary of State, presides over an emptied-out department facing deep budget cuts with limited influence in Trump’s White House. Despite this, he is responsible for handling a potential nuclear crisis.
On Thursday, the Trump administration offered up a historically draconian budget proposal that is also—surprise, surprise—“far shorter and vaguer than White House budget plans normally are,” according to the Washington Post. It is a vicious, stone-cold rejection of the notion that the federal government ought to help…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
The Trump administration is preparing to release its budget for the 2018 fiscal year and, if it passes as proposed, the Environmental Protection Agency will see a significant budget decrease.
The Washington Post is reporting that a huge chunk of the senior staff at the State Department has resigned. It’s unclear whether the officials left of their own volition or were forced out by the Trump Administration, but the paper reports it “amounts to a near-complete housecleaning” of every senior official who…
In what seems to be becoming a bit of a worrisome pattern, Donald Trump’s transition team is now demanding information from the State Department on “gender-related programs” meant to aid women around the world. It’s tough to imagine that they’re asking because they want to know how they can help.
After an eight-month investigation, French authorities have arrested seven people in Strasbourg and Marseille suspected of orchestrating an ISIS-linked terror plot. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert for all those planning to fly to Europe for the holidays.
In an effort to demonstrate that Hillary Clinton’s efforts to sidestep security measures—to say nothing of transparency regulations—imposed on her digital communications as Secretary of State were totally normal and fine, Representative Elijah Cummings has released an email from Clinton’s predecessor, Colin Powell, in…
In a report released on Wednesday, the State Department inspector general said that Hillary Clinton violated the agency’s rules with her private email server. The report also said that Clinton was not cooperative with the investigation and declined to be interviewed by the auditor. Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Jake…
The Twitter account for the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs is my mother.
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At 10 a.m., Hillary Clinton was sworn in in the Ways and Means Committee hearing room for the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s fourth public hearing. And you bet your butt that some blame is going to get laid and hard truths faced.
According to reports, Hillary Clinton received two emails classified as “top secret” to her personal account while serving as secretary of state. The special intelligence review found that one of them contained information about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Hillary Clinton will turn over her entire private email server to the Justice Department, a campaign spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. In doing so, Clinton will be cooperating with an investigation into whether classified information was improperly stored during her time as secretary of state and ensuring that many,…
Hillary Clinton certified that she had officially turned all of her work-related e-mails during her tenure as secretary of state into the State Department, according to a CNN report. The move follows a freedom of information lawsuit from the conservative organization Judicial Watch about the work status of former…
