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Breaking News: State Dept Does Not/Not Like Nipples Nor Damn ACLU Letter
The Foreign Service blog community lit up today with the State Department’s brainless judgement and censorship in action. A community manager or two running the blog roll at careers.state.gov (managed...
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State Dept Restores Blog, But All’s Not Well – Whatareyougoingtodoaboutit?
When I left to run errands around noon yesterday, Jen’s blog, The Dinoia Family has been restored in the blog roll of careers.state.gov. By the time I was back online briefly late afternoon, there’s...
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Foreign Service Dissent Award Snubs Most Vocal Foreign Service Dissenter of...
The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), the professional association of the United States Foreign Service presents an annual set of awards for “intellectual courage and creative dissent.“ It...
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After a Year of Serious Roars and Growls, State Dept Officially Retires...
And so it has come to this. Last year, the State Department was up in arms with the publication of Peter Van Buren’s book, We Meant Well, because well — as its Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of...
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State Dept to Rewrite Media Engagement Rules for Employees in Wake of Van...
Inside the building sources told this blog that the State Department is preparing to rewrite its 3 FAM 4170 rules for employees on official clearance for speaking, writing, and teaching. The drafted...
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Next Secretary of State John Kerry’s Full Plate of Management Issues, and...
A few weeks ago, Gordon Adams, professor of international relations at the School of International Service at American University and Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center argued why senators...
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State Dept Wants You to Join the Foreign Service — Start Now So You’re on...
The 12:35 minute video features Secretary Clinton, US Ambassador to Thailand Kristie Kenney, US Ambassador to Haiti Pamela White, a management analyst from the Foreign Service Institute giving a tour...
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Social Media Schizophrenia Continues on Background, and Oh, Stuff That...
One of our readers from a post that will remain unnamed recently wrote a note with the following heads-up, “…our Front Office has gone on an anti-social media rampage of late.” Something about slamming...
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Silenced: Civic Courage on Film, Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
“Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.” ― Dahlia Lithwick...
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US Mission Iraq: Shrinking to 5,500 Personnel by End of Year, Never Mind the...
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, we were greeted with news about a wave of bombings in Iraq which killed 65 people and wounded over 200. Then CNN came out with this...
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“This Week With George Stephanopoulos” Features Former Embassy Tripoli DCM...
– By Domani Spero FSO Gregory Hicks, the former Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Tripoli (July 2012-October 2012) was one of George Stephanopoulos’s Sunday morning guests on “This Week With...
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US Embassy Yemen: Revocation of U.S. Passports, a Growing Trend?
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Quote of the Day: “Take responsible risks…Don’t take a big crazy risk … Mm…hmm
– Domani Spero Here is Doug Frantz, the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs via nextgov.com: “Social media is an interactive platform, so if you wait to come back to the State Department to...
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Monday Inbox: US Embassy Baghdad’s Conrad Turner Recites a Russian Poem, And ….
– Domani Spero Updated on 3/24 at 11:24 pm PST: The YouTube description now indicates that this is “One of four videos celebrating international poetry during the visit to Iraq of poets from the...
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We’re Sending This ‘We Meant Well’ Career Diplomat as Ambassador to Qatar
– Domani Spero This week, we blogged about the former AFSA presidents asking the Senate to postpone consideration of FSO Dana Shell Smith’s nomination as ambassador to Qatar until the Foreign Service...
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FSO-Author Writes About Publishing in the Foreign Service; Update to 3 FAM...
– Domani Spero The June 2014 issue of the Foreign Service Journal includes an article, Publishing in the Foreign Service by FSO Yaniv Barzilai, who is serving in Baku on his first overseas posting....
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State Dept on Former DAS Raymond Maxwell’s Allegations: Crazy. Conspiracy...
– Domani Spero AP’s Matt Lee revisited the question of Raymond Maxwell’s Benghazi-related allegations during the September 16 Daily Press Briefing with State Department deputy spox, Marie Harf. Here...
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Peter Van Buren Writes An Embassy Evacuation Explainer For DipNote No, Reuters
Posted: 01:04 EST On February 11, the State Department suspended US Embassy operations in Yemen and relocated its remaining skeleton staff outside of the country until further notice. News report...
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What About American Ambassadors? The Next President Will Not Nominate a Super...
Posted: 1:53 am EDT The 2016 presidential election is some 18 months away. Some folks who are hoping to land a gig at some of our European embassies are expecting to get busy just about now. About...
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What if Congress grants the State Dept the Suspension Without Pay (SWOP) hammer?
Posted: 1:44 pm EDT According to the Foreign Affairs Manual, the Act of August 26, 1950 (64 Stat. 476), codified at 5 U.S.C. 7532, “confers upon the Secretary of State the authority, in the...
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