Topic: U.S. Department Of State

SXE) provides IT services to government agencies and U.S. defense companies. "Two Stanley subcontractor employees were involved in the unauthorized access of Sen. Barack Obama's passport files. Passport scandal leads to Virginia contractor (March 21, 2008) "Two of the government contractors who ...

American Citizens Abroad, ACA, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy group that serves and works on behalf of American citizens living and working worldwide. A child adopted overseas becomes a US citizen upon entry as a lawful permanent resident. 3) As a US ...

America was founded as a country where no citizen would ever have to submit to the will of a king, or any other brand of despot. President Barack Obama's administration is now submitting its own special selection of domestic policies and laws ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to liberalize Cold War-era restrictions on weapons and high-technology exports is moving closer to reality, but some lawmakers are balking at several elements.Representative Donald Manzullo, whose Illinois district is filled with manufacturers who complain ...

US lawmakers unveiled legislation Thursday to strip Americans thought to have joined extremist groups like Al-Qaeda of their citizenship, saying it would make it easier to try or assassinate them."Those who join such groups join our enemy and should no longer be ...

The tense post-election climate in Iran and the Middle East peace process topped talks Friday between US diplomacy chief Hillary Clinton and Bahrain's crown prince, the State Department said.But State Department spokesman PJ Crowley did not indicate whether Clinton had formally requested ...

The White House Thursday named veteran Middle East envoy Dennis Ross to a key job overseeing policy in a vast region encompassing the Middle East, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia.Ross's move from a low profile job in the State Department ...

Former Rice aide protested interrogation methods, to testify at Senate hearingAs a member of Condoleezza Rice's inner circle at the State Department, Philip Zelikow argued within the Bush administration that simulated drowning and other extreme interrogation techniques were illegal. Congress will get ...

Long at odds with the Bush administration, staffers at the U.S. State Department and other federal agencies are finding themselves " In Florida, governor Charlie Crist announced Wednesday that the state will cut in half its plan to restore the Everglades by ...

On March 26, 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, making her first official visit to Mexico, made a visit to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Both incidents illustrate a bigger problem, however--one that afflicted the Republican George W. Bush ...