U.S. Foreign Service Posts: Tracking Voluntary Departures and Mandatory...
10:05 PDT Updated with dates of WHO declarations We created a tracker for Foreign Service posts on authorized (voluntary) departures and posts on mandatory (ordered) departures. The information below...
View ArticleFirst Person: DSS Agent Assaulted By Spouse Says “Our HR process is garbage”
The following is a first person account shared by a Diplomatic Security agent who was assaulted twice by his spouse in USG quarters temporary housing located in the Washington DC area. He wrote that...
View ArticleTrump to fire State/OIG Steve Linick who is reportedly investigating Pompeo
So Friday night, just when folks were getting ready to mute the chaos and the crazies for the weekend, news broke around 8:30 pm EST of another IG firing. This time, it was the removal of State...
View ArticleTaxpayer-Funded “Madison Dinners”: An Intimate Evening with Mike and Susan
Feel like we are learning more about aspects of Pompeo’s tenure as secretary of state that he has tried not to disclose in the four days since he had Trump fire the State Dept IG than in the two...
View Article7th Floor Hotspot: “Worst” SOS Ever, “Colossal Prig”, “Baghdad Bob”, “Gaudy”,...
"I know you thought that Rex Tillerson had retired that title. Tillerson was ineffective, but Tillerson had integrity and ethics. Pompeo has none," writes @TomFriedman. https://t.co/sQ6uPepCgM —...
View ArticleMike Defends Susan With Quip From ‘The American President’
The wife of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been integral to his meteoric rise. But her close involvement in his career has attracted unwelcome scrutiny. https://t.co/TwbRSz21is — POLITICO...
View ArticleMemo Justifies Susan Pompeo’s Presence in Middle East Trip During Shutdown
Politico’s Nahal Toosi has a new piece about that January 2019 Middle East trip the Pompeos took during the government shutdown (35-day shutdown started on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019,...
View ArticleBelarus’ Lukashenko in Power Since 1994 Claims Landslide Election Victory,...
Ive been offline all day. Can someone repost the Trump administration's denunciation of Lukashenko's stolen election & violent crackdown on democratic protestors in #Belarus? — Michael McFaul...
View ArticleUS Embassy Dhaka: Persistent Staffing Gaps, Workload Stress, a Triple Stretch
In July 2016, the US Embassy in Bangladesh went on voluntary evacuation (U.S. Embassy Dhaka: Now on “Authorized Departure” For Family Members of USG Personnel). State/OIG conducted the inspection of...
View ArticleTravels With Mike and Susan: #CzechRepublic, #Slovenia, #Austria, #Poland –...
POLAND Wheels down! Sekretarz Stanu @SecPompeo Mike Pompeo wylądował właśnie na Okęciu w Warszawie! pic.twitter.com/hlvM8p6pov — US Embassy Warsaw (@USEmbassyWarsaw) August 15, 2020 WARSAW (AP) — U.S....
View ArticleUkraine: US Embassy Kyiv Spouse Micala Siler Killed While Jogging
Obituary: Micala “Mikey” Christie-Hicks Siler (December 19, 1978 – September 30, 2020) We are heartbroken to report the death of an American member of the U.S. Embassy Kyiv community. Officials from...
View ArticleEFM Gets Ceremonial Office in Chief of Mission Residence at US Embassy...
U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg James Evans announced the ceremonial office for Newt Gingrich at the ambassador’s residence in Luxembourg. The former Speaker of the House is the eligible family member of...
View ArticleHow @StateDept Handles Domestic Violence Overseas: One Example and Some...
In the many years that we’ve watched the State Department, or asked questions about assaults, harassment, or domestic violence, we seldom see a public accounting of how the agency handles these...
View ArticleTravels With the Pompeos and the Espers: Who Invited the Spouses?
🇮🇳-🇺🇸|US Sec. of State @SecPompeo arrives for the 3rd 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. He is joined by Sec. of Defence @EsperDoD. EAM @DrSJaishankar & RM @rajnathsingh will lead the Indian side for this...
View ArticleDetained Ex-Campaign Staffer and Diplomatic Spouse Vitali Shkliarov Leaves...
Belarusian-American political strategist Vitali Shkliarov has left Belarus days after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded his "full release and immediate departure" in a phone call with...
View ArticleARB on Havana Syndrome Response: Pray Tell, Who Was in Charge?
On February 10, 2021, the GWU’s National Security Archive published the report of the Accountability Review Board (ARB) for Havana, Cuba dated June 2018. The ARB document was classified SECRET/NOFORN...
View ArticleOh ARB China, Where Art Thou?
We’ve recently written about the Accountability Review Board (ARB) report on Cuba here: ARB on Havana Syndrome Response: Pray Tell, Who Was in Charge?. The State Department told us that “The U.S....
View Article@StateDept’s Vaccination Efforts For Overseas Posts Under Fire, a Test for...
Hey, did you see that DOD is shipping Moderna COVID-19 vaccines overseas for military families? This is the pandemic of our lifetime. Half a million Americans are dead and many more will die before...
View ArticleMystery Illness: “a much larger scale and widespread attack against our...
Following the publication of ARB on Havana Syndrome Response: Pray Tell, Who Was in Charge? and Oh ARB China, Where Art Thou?, we received the following in our inbox: This is an interesting piece...
View Article@SecBlinken’s Memo on COVID-19 Vaccinations and His Commitment to @StateDept...
Last week, Secretary Blinken sent a memo to State Department employees titled, “COVID-19 and My Commitment to You.” The memo notes that “Our first priority must be to take care of our people—the more...
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