Tag: State Department

From left, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., Ranking Member Rep. Eliot Engel, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. speak together before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, on the Obama administration's case for the Iran Nuclear Agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

House Republicans take step to reject Iran deal

Charles Hoskinson · August 4, 2015 7:11 pm

This artist's rendering shows United States Magistrate, Judge John Facciola, swearing in the defendant, Libyan militant Ahmed Abu Khatallah, wearing a headphone, as his attorney Michelle Peterson looks on during a hearing at the federal U.S. District Court in Washington, Saturday, June 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)

National Security

Benghazi suspect asks court to send him back to Libya

Sarah Bedford · August 4, 2015 3:58 pm

Iran's president Hassan Rouhani arrives for an address to the nation after a nuclear agreement was announced in Vienna on July 14. World powers and Iran struck a historic deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

National Security

Inflating the Iran threat

Justin Logan · August 4, 2015 2:01 pm

"Alarming and unacceptable if true," Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tweeted Monday. "We must get to the bottom of this @ hearing on Thursday."Â (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Senators blast State Dept. for playing politics with human-rights rankings

Susan Crabtree · August 4, 2015 4:22 am

Abedin's connections to the Clinton Foundation have come under fire in recent days given an inspector general probe into her designation as a "special government employee."Â (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images)

New documents suggest Clinton’s email server may have crashed

Sarah Bedford · August 4, 2015 4:01 am

A federal judge has ordered Hillary Clinton and two of her top aides to provide more details about their email arrangement to a court while under oath. (AP Photo)

Judge orders Hillary to account for private server

Sarah Bedford · August 3, 2015 7:25 pm

An inspector general probe suggested Huma Abedin leveraged her State Department job to benefit her two other employers at the time. (AP Photo)

Clinton aide may have ‘delivered favors’ for friends, IG finds

Sarah Bedford · August 3, 2015 4:42 pm

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has a word with aide Huma Abedin at the start of a campaign rally at Capital High School in Charleston, W.Va., Wednesday, March 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

State Dept. overpaid Hillary aide nearly $10,000

Ryan Lovelace · August 1, 2015 10:45 pm

Clinton, campaigning in New Hampshire, said Friday she was aware that the FBI wanted some of the email to be classified, "but that doesn't change the fact all of the information in the emails was handled appropriately."Â Asked if she was concerned it was on a private server, she replied, "No." (AP Photo)

National Security

Hillary Clinton requested book on how to send better email

Barbara Boland · August 1, 2015 4:16 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks before the National Urban League, Friday, July 31, 2015, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Beltway Confidential

Clinton releases tax returns, takes aim at GOP

W. James Antle III · July 31, 2015 9:36 pm

At least five charities with connections to Clinton will refile annual tax returns after a review found errors in how donations from foreign governments were disclosed.Â (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

National Security

Latest round of Clinton emails heavily scrubbed

Sarah Bedford · July 31, 2015 8:30 pm

The revelations came in a new batch of Clinton's emails released on Friday by the State Department. (AP Photos)

Beltway Confidential

Sandy Berger urged Hillary to portray Bibi as obstacle to peace

Philip Klein · July 31, 2015 8:04 pm