Topic: U.S. Department Of State
=(Picture)=President Barack Obama wants assurances from Pakistan that freed nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan will not be involved in any proliferation activities, the White House said Friday.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meanwhile said she was " very much concerned" about the decision ...
A smiling but moist-eyed Condoleezza Rice bid farewell Friday to hundreds of applauding and cheering State Department colleagues who worked under her during her four years as US secretary of state. "You will always be in my thoughts, my prayers and my ...
President-elect Barack Obama should boost support to developing nations to aid their efforts against global extremism, the State Department's anti-terror coordinator said Tuesday. "The single most tactical advice would be developing our partner nations' and our friends' counter-terrorism capability, from terrorist financing ...
Obama adviser who called Clinton a 'monster' working on State Department transition teamAn adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign who was forced to resign earlier this year after calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a " monster" is now working on the transition ...
US officials unaware of any US casualties in Mumbai terrorist attacksThe Bush administration is continuing to monitor a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai but said it was not aware of any American casualties, despite reports that ...
Verizon Wireless apologized to President-elect Obama after learning that employees had been snooping into his cell phone account records, but whether the company will change its access procedures is unknown.. Verizon apparently realized this week that Obama's records had been breached. Verizon ...
19 people named Wednesday to help Obama's transitionPresident-elect Obama's transition team Wednesday announced 19 people to help oversee the effort. She was counselor for the State Department and special adviser to President Clinton and policy coordinator on North Korea. He was assistant ...
Obama taps professors, academics and former White House veterans to help oversee transitionSome members of President-elect Obama's transition team: Under Labor secretaries Alexis Herman and Robert Reich, Harris was senior adviser on policy, legal, management and strategic issues.Among the policies he helped ...
Duo heading Obama's transition at State Department seasoned in politics and foreign policyTo lead his transition at the State Department, President-elect Obama chose one former official with years of foreign policy experience and another with deep ties to Democratic politics.Wendy R. Sherman ...
Last November 2, I was at my post on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia when a helicopter carrying 11 American special operations servicemen malfunctioned and crashed in Afghanistan. In fact, in the 13 months I had been in Saudi Arabia, ...