June 12, 2020 Pompeo tears into Engel in escalation of battle over IG firing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tore into House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., over the committee's investigation into the firing of former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick -- while offering a high-ranking department official to testify in his defense on the matter.
June 12, 2020 State Department ramping up passport processing as reopening begins The State Department is ramping up its passport processing, three months after it drastically reduced operations due to the coronavirus pandemic.
June 10, 2020 US religious freedom ambassador: China spearheading the future of oppression The Chinese Communist Party is already implementing “the future of what oppression’s going to look like” with intense surveillance of ethnic minorities, according to Sam Brownback, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
June 10, 2020 Fired State Department watchdog says he was given 'no valid reason' for his removal The former State Department inspector general fired by President Trump last month told congressional investigators that he has been given “no valid reason” for his removal.
June 9, 2020 State Department accuses fired IG of obtaining official documents, accessing office after dismissal A top State Department official has accused Steve Linick, the department’s fired inspector general, of contacting a former colleague, obtaining official documents and returning to his former office, all in violation of the terms of his administrative leave.
June 8, 2020 Ex-acting DNI Grenell calls politics in 2020 'a fight between Washington and the rest of America' Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Monday that his time in the Trump administration has shown him that the great political struggle is no longer between Republicans and Democrats, but between the District of Columbia and the rest of the U.S.
June 8, 2020 State Department launches new push to free American hostage Morad Tahbaz from Iran The State Department is launching a new push to free an American hostage being held in an Iranian jail, shortly after Navy veteran Michael White was freed from nearly two years' imprisonment in the Islamic Republic.
June 8, 2020 Did coronavirus kill the Taliban leader? The novel coronavirus – officially termed COVID-19 – has killed more than 400,000 people and ravished almost all pockets of the globe – and it seems the Taliban top-brass is far from immune.
June 8, 2020 Who are the Americans being held as 'political prisoners' abroad? After almost two years ailing behind bars in the bowels of an Iranian prison and coming down with the novel coronavirus, cancer survivor Michael White last week was freed and brought home. The U.S. Navy veteran joins the ranks of scores of Americans brought home under President Trump's aggressive push to free unfairly detained citizens – yet there are many others still languishing in all corners of the globe.
June 5, 2020 Navy vet Michael White back in US after release from Iran detention U.S. Navy veteran Michael White arrived back in the U.S. early Friday after his release from Iran following nearly two years of detention.