http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bhostatedept/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 21:30:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021785/posts To mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), the U.S. Embassy in Tallinn on May 17 will display the rainbow flag on the Embassy building at Kentmanni 20, Tallinn. IDAHO is an annual event celebrated internationally to counter homophobia and raise awareness of the human rights discrimination faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) individuals. “Flying the flag,” Ambassador Levine said, “is a simple statement of our support for the LGBT community and its struggle for equal rights.” Noting the substantial progress being made, Ambassador Levine added that much of the world has come to understand that... US Embassy Talinin Estonia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021785/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 21:30:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019389/posts THE spectacle in Washington over the terrorist attack last Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya, is focusing on the wrong thing. The biggest American failure wasn’t in the tactical mistakes about security at the diplomatic mission where Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died. It lay in thinking that an intervention in Libya would be easier or less costly than it has proved to be — a judgment that led the United States to think it could go in light, get out fast and focus on the capital, Tripoli, without paying enough attention to Libya’s eastern provinces, where the... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019389/posts#comment Tue, 14 May 2013 19:19:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017356/posts - FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com - Blow-by-Blow: How Obama & Hillary Left Americans to DiePosted By Arnold Ahlert On May 9, 2013 @ 12:55 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 7 Comments Wednesday on Capitol Hill, three impeccable witnesses offered the clearest evidence to date that the Obama administration’s response to Benghazi before, during and after the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, State Department employee Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen A. Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods, was a deadly combination of ineptitude, political calculations, and outright lying. Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant Secretary of State for counterterrorism; Greg... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017356/posts#comment Thu, 9 May 2013 11:39:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009850/posts Is the chief of North Vietnam getting ready to spew more venom against the US? CSPAN Live http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009850/posts#comment Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:39:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3008158/posts If you have felt disappointed because Secretary of State John Kerry hasn’t yet joined most of his Obama administration colleagues to offer an ignorant opinion on the gun debate, well, this post is for you. While on a trip to Asia ostensibly to deal with the crisis on the Korean peninsula, Kerry took time out to poll his hosts on their views of gun control: (VIDEO-AT-LINK) It’s difficult to know where to start with this nonsense. First, as we have repeatedly pointed out, gun deaths have declined each year since the expiration of the nonsensical “assault weapons” ban in 2007,... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3008158/posts#comment Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:55:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005239/posts KABUL, Afghanistan – Anne Smedinghoff had a quiet ambition and displayed a love of global affairs from an early age, joining the U.S. Foreign Service straight out of college and volunteering for missions in perilous locations worldwide. So when the 25-year-old suburban Chicago woman was killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan — the first American diplomat to die on the job since last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya — her family took solace in the fact that she died doing something she loved. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005239/posts#comment Mon, 8 Apr 2013 03:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3002863/posts Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, will be nominated to be the next ambassador to Japan, the Washington Post reports. "Looks like there will be a Camelot East — make that Far East: Caroline Kennedy is heading to Tokyo to be the U.S. ambassador. Kennedy, whose support for President Obama during his 2008 campaign was seen as crucial, had been widely talked about as a candidate for the plum diplomatic post, but now things have apparently been firmed up," reports the Post. Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3002863/posts#comment Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:28:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990987/posts Stipulating that foreign aid can be an important part of American foreign policy, and further that trade is an important component of U.S. foreign policy; Secretary of State John Kerry made two really important mistakes in his maiden speech, delivered to a fawning audience of American university students. The first was in the definition of America's challenges in the second decade of the 21st Century. Mr. Kerry posited: "Our challenge is to tame the worst impulses of globalization even as we harness its ability to spread information and possibility, to offer even the most remote place on Earth the same... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990987/posts#comment Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:29:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2983756/posts Will the Swift Boat Vets oppose Kerry as Secretary of State? I can't think of a worse choice for the position (Except Hillary Clinton)! Kerry? That's not scraping the bottom of the barrel. It's lifting the barrel and going underneath! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2983756/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:58:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983201/posts Senate confirms Kerry for State in 94-3 vote By Julian Pecquet and Ramsey Cox - 01/29/13 04:32 PM ET The Senate approved one of its own to become President Obama's second secretary of State in a near-unanimous vote on Tuesday. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) sailed through the chamber in a 94-to-3 vote, with Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Texas Sens. Ted Cruz (R) and John Cornyn (R) casting the only “no” votes. Kerry's approval to replace Hillary Clinton was a foregone conclusion after Republicans urged Obama to nominate him in lieu of his ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice.... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983201/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:05:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983086/posts "Obama chose Kerry, 69, the son of a diplomat, decorated Vietnam veteran and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, to succeed Clinton, who is stepping down after four years. The senator had pined for the top diplomatic job that went to Clinton after Obama's 2008 election" http://news.yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983086/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:00:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971202/posts John O’Neill, the founder of the Swift Boat Vets for Truth, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the group would resurface and protest the nomination of Senator John Kerry should he be nominated as Secretary of Defense of Secretary of State...... O’Neill said that Kerry wouldn’t be suited for serving as Secretary of Defense, but would be “a much better guy at hauling up the white flag.” http://freedomoutpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971202/posts#comment Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:49:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2970487/posts The State Department on Tuesday slammed John Bolton, George W. Bush's controversial ambassador to the United Nations, after he accused Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of faking an illness to avoid testifying this week about the Benghazi attack. Bolton implied on Fox News on Monday night that Clinton lied about her illness to avoid saying anything potentially embarrassing that could come back to haunt her should she choose to run for president in 2016. The State Department put out a statement over the weekend from doctors at Mount Kisco Medical Group and George Washington University saying that Clinton “developed a... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2970487/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:03:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969071/posts President Barack Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to be the next secretary of state, a source has told Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed. His replacement as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the Sneed source said. Chicago Sun Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969071/posts#comment Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:54:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2968453/posts Embattled U.N. envoy Susan Rice is dropping out of the running to be the next secretary of state after months of criticism over her Benghazi comments, she told NBC News on Thursday. nbc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2968453/posts#comment Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:02:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2960361/posts Jill Kelley, the Florida housewife whose complaint over threatening emails revealed David Petraeus´ affair, has visited the White House three times in the past three months, it has emerged. In by far the most astonishing example of her determination to reach the top, the shrewd socialite and her twin sister, Natalie Khawam, were invited to two ´courtesy´ meals in the Executive Mansion mess hall as a guest of a White House aide, an Obama administration official has revealed. She met the mid-level aide through her work with MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, where she also rubbed shoulders with the Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2960361/posts#comment Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:41:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959578/posts President Obama took aim at Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham today at his White House news conference. In recent days, some reports have speculated that Obama will pick U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Rice made headlines after the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi by going on several Sunday talk shows and blaming an anti-Islam video for the situation. Her account turned out to be false, with the White House later admitting it was a planned terror attack on the U.S. Consulate. Earlier today at a news conference on the Benghazi investigation,... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959578/posts#comment Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:00:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957231/posts Hillary Clinton will step down as U.S. Secretary of State within 'days' of President Barack Obama's second inauguration in January, her spokesman said today. Her long-respected(?) departure is expected by most Democrats to be a prelude for a White House run in 2016, when she will be 69. The top candidate to replace her is believed to be Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the losing 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. … Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957231/posts#comment Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:25:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2952358/posts The first statements from the Obama administration about what happened in Benghazi seemed plausible. There were, after all, protests throughout the Muslim world on the anniversary of 9/11 — some incited by Islamists using an obscure video to arouse anti-American fervor in the mobs, and some, no doubt, just pelting U.S. embassies on general principles. When the administration explained that one of those protests had spun out of control and led to the murder of our ambassador and three other Americans in Libya, there seemed no reason to doubt it.For a day. But within hours, the administration account deflated... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2952358/posts#comment Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:56:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2950576/posts Those in the CIA Annex requested permission to aid the consulate. Were told to stand down at least twice. Went anyway after being told to stand down the second time FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2950576/posts#comment Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:15:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2948929/posts Yesterday, the President and Secretary of State of the United States of America went on Pakistani television to apologize. In a commercial containing clips from their Washington press conferences, subtitled in Urdu, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton said “sorry” to the mad hordes attacking the American embassy in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad and deplored the infamous anti-Muslim14-minute YouTube video. “We absolutely reject its content and message,” said Clinton in the advertisements, which ended with the seal of the American embassy in Pakistan. U.S. taxpayers footed the bill for this high-level official apology to the tune of $70,000. This is... Heritage.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2948929/posts#comment Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:01:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2947277/posts WASHINGTON — In the first 48 hours after the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Libya, senior Obama administration officials strongly alluded to a terrorist assault and repeatedly declined to link it to an anti-Muslim video that drew protests elsewhere in the region, transcripts of briefings show. The administration’s initial accounts, however, changed dramatically in the following days, according to a review of briefing transcripts and administration statements, with a new narrative emerging Sept. 16 when U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice asserted in a series of TV appearances that the best information available indicated... McClatchy Newspapers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2947277/posts#comment Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:41:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944046/posts When terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year and killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, there were no U.S. Marines deployed in Libya to defend U.S. diplomats, diplomatic facilities and classified information and equipment. However, says the State Department, a Marine Security Detachment was deployed on that day to carry out those duties at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados. CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944046/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:38:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2943894/posts The White House press secretary said the Vice President didn't contradict the State Department last night because he was not speaking about the Administration as a whole. VIDEO BuzzFeed Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2943894/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:38:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942990/posts Vanity! Wow, Bret Baier just presented a well documented timeline on the Obama Administration's disgusting behavior regarding the death of our Ambassador and others in Libya.It was positively devastating! He notes that the State Department had already concluded that there were absolutely NO protests outside the embassy and the attack was a coordinated terrorist attack. Then, AFTER THAT, Hillary stood next to the Ambassador's dead body and denounced the stupid YouTube video that she KNEW had nothing to do with it. Then AFTER THAT, Obama went on David Letterman to condemn this completely irrelevant video. Then Susan Rice went on... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942990/posts#comment Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:01:01 GMT