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Amanda Terkel

White House Releases Benghazi Emails

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON –- The White House on Wednesday released the full set of emails surrounding the Obama administration’s development of talking points de...

U.S. Officials Claim Ambassador Stevens Declined Additional Security

McClatchy | Posted 05.15.2013 | Politics

CAIRO — In the month before attackers stormed U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens twice turne...

With Re: Benghazi -- We've Met the Enemy and It Is Not Us!

Douglas Kmiec | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics
Douglas Kmiec

More than anything else, the attack of 9/11/12 reveals a bureaucracy's tendency to believe its own press.

Biden, Kerry Honor Slain Diplomats

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry hailed the courage and dedication of U.S. diplomats slain in the line of...

Remembering a Foreign Policy Hero

Yaron Schwartz | Posted 03.25.2013 | Media
Yaron Schwartz

U.S. foreign policy capabilities in the Middle East were greatly strengthened by Ambassador Stevens' efforts to treat others as his equal and to work with people from different countries to build a more just and free world.

Haggling for Hagel

Andy Ostroy | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
Andy Ostroy

After all the vituperative crowing and chest-thumping is over, Hagel's nomination will likely pass, but not before more taxpayer time and money is wasted and voters' approval of Congress sinks lower than McCain's trumped-up standards.

Senate Passes Bill To Improve Embassy Security

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday approved legislation that would allow the State Department to transfer $1.1 billion to improve security at U.S. emb...

Clinton Facing Tough Questions From Congress

Posted 01.23.2013 | Politics

By DONNA CASSATA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faces tough questions in her long-awaited congressi...

Ryan J. Reilly

Court Considers Release Of Postmortem Bin Laden Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 01.11.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Judges on a federal appeals court here gave little indication on Thursday they would second-guess the Obama administration's assertion t...

Tunisian Suspect In Benghazi Attack Freed

AP | BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 03.10.2013 | World

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian authorities released one of the only men in custody for alleged links to September's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mis...

Washington Bureaucracy Fingered in Killing of Ambassador Stevens

Douglas Kmiec | Posted 02.18.2013 | Politics
Douglas Kmiec

The sub-text of the report is that those in charge of the Near East Bureau and Diplomatic Security dropped the ball, though the Review Board was careful to not find the senior leadership to be so derelict of duty as to warrant immediate discipline.

Report Throws Cold Water On Benghazi Conspiracy Theorists

Foreign Policy Passport | Blake Hounshell | Posted 12.19.2012 | World

My colleague Josh Rogin has a more complete and straightforward writeup of this report, an independent look at the State Department's handling of the ...

Benghazi Attack Suspect Held In Egypt

Reuters | Posted 02.07.2013 | World

CAIRO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities are holding a man whose militant group is suspected of links to an attack in Libya in which the Americ...

Kerry: Libya Attack Report Imminent

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 12.07.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about...

Benghazi Security Chief Assassinated

AP | Posted 01.20.2013 | World

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's deputy interior minister says gunmen assassinated the security chief of the eastern city of Benghazi overnight. ...

Fatal Distraction: Why Republicans Should Shut Up About Libya

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 01.20.2013 | Politics
Sanjay Sanghoee

We know that Republicans do not like to govern, but apparently they want to prevent anyone else from doing it too, especially a popular Democratic president.

A Less Nimble America in the Arab World

Daniel Byman | Posted 01.08.2013 | World
Daniel Byman

2012-11-05-HP_World_Graphic_300x70.pngOur diplomats are like our soldiers -- they are precious to us, but we must also recognize that if they cannot take risks they cannot do their jobs.

Looking Forward: Benghazi Blues, Climate Wake-Up Calls, and the Importance of Maps

William Bradley | Posted 11.05.2012 | Politics
William Bradley

In our increasingly goofy political and media culture, climate change was the big issue no one was talking about any more, even as it continued to grow in the real world. Then came the superstorm.

U.S. Officials Counter Reports About Benghazi Attacks

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 01.01.2013 | World

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon provided more details Friday of the military response to the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, as que...

Remembering Ambassador Christopher Stevens

Justice Paul H. Anderson | Posted 12.29.2012 | Politics
Justice Paul H. Anderson

Ambassador Christopher Stevens is an American hero and we must take special care not to tarnish his legacy.

Doubling Down on Diplomacy

Curtis S. Chin | Posted 12.29.2012 | World
Curtis S. Chin

As investigations continue into what really happened in Libya it will also be important that steps be taken to ensure that U.S. diplomacy efforts and our diplomats do not once again retreat behind ever higher embassy walls in the name of added security.

Janell Ross

John McCain Compares Libya Controversy To Watergate

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 10.29.2012 | Politics

Sen. John McCain (R- Ariz.) on Sunday compared the growing debate over what the Obama administration knew about the crisis at the U.S. consulate in Be...

Witnesses Recount Organized Benghazi Attack

AP | PAUL SCHEMM and MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 10.27.2012 | World

TRIPOLI, Libya -- It began around nightfall on Sept. 11 with around 150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic milita...

"The '80s Are Calling... "

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.23.2012 | Politics
Andy Ostroy

It was interesting that virtually the entire foreign policy discussion focused on the Middle East, as if nothing else around the world matters. Not a peep about the European financial meltdown, for example, and how they'd help fix the collapsing economies of Spain, Greece and Italy. So who "won?"

The Last Debate -- Why Mitt Cannot Compete on Foreign Policy

Douglas Kmiec | Posted 12.22.2012 | Politics
Douglas Kmiec

Today's final presidential debate is bad news for Mitt. Rumor has it that it will dwell on foreign policy. That's hardly fair to a guy who has a pension for insulting even international friends.