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State Department employee placed on probation

USA Today (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

A State Department employee was put on probation for a year for accessing more than 125 confidential passport applications of ...

State Department employee placed on probation

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

A State Department employee was put on probation for a year for accessing more than 125 confidential passport applications of celebrities.

State Department employee placed on probation

Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

A State Department employee was put on probation for a year for accessing more than 125 confidential passport applications of celebrities.

State Department employee placed on probation

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

A State Department employee was put on probation for a year for accessing more than 125 confidential passport applications of celebrities.

State Department employee placed on probation

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

WASHINGTON -- A State Department employee was put on probation for a year for accessing more than 125 confidential passport applications of celebrities.

State Department employee placed on probation

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A State Department employee was put on probation for a year for accessing more than 125 confidential passport applications of celebrities.

How Did This Happen? [K State Fail]

FamousDC (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Why would someone send K State stickers to the Washington, DC area Target? They were right next to the Washington Redskins stockings, which aren’t selling too well either. Share on Facebook Related posts:The Fix Names Top State Political Reporters#Nationals Ballgirl FailMeet the Doogie Howser of the State Department Related posts: The Fix Names Top State Political...

Y/our tax dollars at work ... at the State Department

Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

When you read this State Department "briefing," just remember that we're PAYING for this. And even worse... we're actually only paying for the half of it that is the shondeh (disgrace). Philip J. Crowley Assistant Secretary of State Daily Press Briefing Washington, DC December 8, 2009 www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2009/dec/133323.htm TRANSCRIPT: 1:17 p.m. EST .... What is...

Doyle declares state of emergency for winter storm

JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday

Gov. Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency Tuesday as forecasters warned that the first major storm of the season could produce blizzard conditions and accumulations of up to a foot of snow to some parts Wisconsin by Wednesday. The declaration is for all of the state's 72 counties. It authorizes the Wisconsin National Guard and state agencies to assist local authorities in any...

State Department celebrity passport snooper sentenced

Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

The Justice Department made clear Wednesday it won't tolerate "idle curiosity" from State Department workers snooping into the passport files of celebrities, sentencing a contractor to 100 hours of community service. ...In pleading guilty, Young admitted that between March 11,...

State Department Still Unsure of Its Role One Year Later

Truth Out (Free subscription) | yesterday

One year after Obama takes office and appoints Hillary Clinton secretary of state, the State Department struggles to determine whether it really wants to separate from the Pentagon. At a December 3 closed briefing to a group of foreign policy journalists from the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism on the concept of "smart power" under the Obama administration,...

State welfare chief quits to take HUD post

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

HARRISBURG - Estelle B. Richman, who has headed the state Department of Public Welfare for the last seven years, is stepping down to take a top position in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

State Department Can’t Find Supervisors for Its Guns-for-Hire

Wired: Danger Room (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

After a string of disasters involving their guns-for-hire, the State Department went looking for some folks who could help supervise their protective details in Iraq, Afghanistan and Afghanistan. Somehow, after eight months, Foggy Bottom has only managed to hire a grand total of four of these new security agents. Back in February, the State Department posted [...]

State Department To Drop ArmorGroup’s Kabul Contract

Truthdig (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tough break, ArmorGroup North America. The U.S. State Department has decided not to re-up its current contract with the rent-a-guard company that made the worst kind of headlines earlier this year with lurid stories about, and compromising photographs of, AGNA’s alarmingly hard-partying Kabul embassy crew. —KA Mother Jones: This turn of events won’t come as much of a...

State Department to end ArmorGroup contract after allegations of sexual misconduct by guards

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday