December 20, 2015 White House reportedly pushing State Department to expedite review to strike Cuba from terror list The White House reportedly is pushing the State Department to expedite its review of whether to remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in the hope of establishing a Havana embassy for the first time in over 50 years by April.
December 20, 2015 Senate GOP asking new questions about emails for Clinton and Abedin, who had special employment status Senate Republicans are renewing efforts to learn why Huma Abedin, a top assistant to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was allowed to keep working at the agency under a special, part-time status while also being employed at a politically-connected consulting firm.
December 20, 2015 US removes remaining personnel from Yemen The U.S. has removed all remaining personnel from Yemen as Shiite rebels controlling the country’s capital called for others to join its battle against government forces.
December 20, 2015 Virtually impossible for top White House, State Department officials to miss Clinton’s private email address: security expert A senior information security professional with intimate knowledge of federal systems has raised new security concerns about former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a private email address and server to carry on official business, telling ӣƵ it would have been virtually impossible for White House officials to be unaware of the practice.
December 20, 2015 Benghazi committee gives Hillary Clinton more time to turn over emails The House select committee investigating the Benghazi attack has given former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton an additional two weeks to turn over any emails related to the deadly assault.
December 20, 2015 Source: Senate panel probing possible Obama administration ties to anti-Netanyahu effort A powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Obama administration’s State Department gave the nonprofit taxpayer-funded grants, FoxNews.com has learned.
December 20, 2015 US Embassy in Saudi Arabia halts operations amid 'heightened security concerns' U.S. officials said Sunday they will halt operations at the American embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia for the next couple of days, in response to “heightened security concerns.”
December 20, 2015 Hackers, probing Clinton server, cite security lapses Stirred by the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, a determined band of hackers, IT bloggers, and systems analysts have trained their specialized talents and state-of-the-art software on clintonemail.com, the domain under which Clinton established multiple private email accounts, and uncovered serious lapses in security, according to data shared with ӣƵ.
December 20, 2015 Inspector general finds State Dept. lax on preserving emails The State Department's internal watchdog has found that many department employees are not preserving emails for the public record as required by the government. That could mean a substantial amount of lost government information.
December 20, 2015 Hill Republicans blast Clinton's email explanation Republican leaders sharply questioned Hillary Clinton's explanation on Tuesday regarding her use of a personal email account during her tenure as secretary of state, with one GOP congressman calling her remarks "not plausible."