[ad_1] The State Department declined to comment on the private workforce engagement. During his opening remarks, Blinken highlighted five lessons the department gleaned during the review led by Ambassador Dan Smith, which spanned the time period from January 2020 to August 2021. The first was that State should have moreContinue Reading
[ad_1] The gap prompted Republicans to question if the administration held off on notifying Congress to shield Kurilla from tough questions and to ensure the war-powers measure sailed through the upper chamber. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, asked Austin on Tuesday ifContinue Reading
[ad_1] He continued to contrast the discovery of sensitive materials in his own possession with the FBI seizure of documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate in August. “The best of my knowledge, the kind of things they [investigators] picked up are things that — from 1974, stray papers.Continue Reading