Senator Maria Cantwell has promised to raise Knox's trial with both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Italian embassy in Washington.

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Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.

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The U.S. has made significant strides in its efforts to bring vulnerable Iraqi refugees to safety.

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In the midst of an international campaign launched against President Chávez, carried out by the extreme Right from Colombia and supported by Washington, the US State Department has organized and financed the trip of eight young Venezuelan politicians to the USA in order to denou …

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A top investment advisor, Harry Schultz, is now claiming: "Some U.S. embassies worldwide are being advised to purchase massive amounts of local currencies; enough to last them a year."

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Somalia's prime minister said Thursday that his government has identified many pirate leaders and would be willing to share that information with other countries, including the United States, to get the resources needed to go after them.

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Needless to say, if the future lawyer for the State Department wanted to apply sharia law willy-nilly in American courtrooms, it would be a terrifying prospect.

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The U.S. State Department re-signed the security firm formerly known as Blackwater despite Iraq saying it didn't want the company there, records show.

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Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced to great fanfare that it had indicted five guards employed by the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide for their role in a Baghdad shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead last year.  A sixth guard had pled guilty to manslau …

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Since United States military operations in Iraq began in 2003, I have visited Iraq at least 15 times. But unlike politicians who visit, the question for me has never been why the U.S. got into Iraq.

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Now that Hillary Clinton has been nominated to be Secretary of State, President-elect Barack Obama's former Democratic rival will begin preparing for the job that awaits her in less than two months.

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Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? It lets Obama focus on domestic issues.

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The little soirée in New York last night was yet another instance of the Demonic Convergence, the merger of the extreme Left and radical Islam.

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A former U.S. State Department employee pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally snooping on about 200 confidential passport files of politicians, celebrities and others, the Justice Department said.

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Dear Dr. Rice, We are writing out of deep concern over recent events in Bolivia that have left dozens dead and cost millions of dollars in lost revenue to the Bolivian government and the Bolivian people.

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State Department Apologizes for Passport Breach(es)

Today's news reports that not only was Senator Obama's passport information improperly accessed, but also that of Senator's McCain and Clinton....All three have received calls from Condi Rice apologizing.....Seems funny that once it became known that Obama's information had been  …

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But when the Attleboro resident recently applied for a new passport so he could go to Africa, he learned the U.S. State Department would not recognize his new hyphenated name because he is a gay man married to another man.

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The passport files of the three major presidential candidates have all been breached, officials said Friday.

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Who Was Snooping in the State Dept?

Has anyone heard the new breaking news about the breach of Obama's passport file in the State Dept? What is going on? Talk about Rev. Wright's rants on anti-American activities. This is the prime example of that, no?

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"…the NIE's main authors include three former State Department officials with previous reputations as "hyper-partisan anti-Bush officials," according to an intelligence source.

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-- FBI fraudster Nada Nadim Prouty not only used a sham marriage to get jobs with access to secret terrorist intelligence - her current husband is a State Department employee who has held sensitive posts in Middle Eastern embassies, The Post has learned.

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In 2004, Black left the State Department to join Blackwater, part of what Harper's Silverstein termed a "revolving door to Blackwater" from the CIA.

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Read what Iraqi bloggers had to say about Senator Joseph Biden's senate bill to divide Iraq into thee sectarian regions.

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On Tuesday the Oversight Committee held a hearing on Blackwater, examining several incidents in Iraq involving the private security firm.

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Washington – After 25 years of holding each other at arm's length, the United States is seeking to engage the people of Iran in direct exchanges with the hope of building stronger ties and greater understanding between Iranians and Americans, says Under Secretary of State R.

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