Tag Archives: Diplomatic Service Embassies and Consulates

Russia Expels Former U.S. Embassy Official

MOSCOW — A former senior Justice Department official at the American Embassy here was declared “persona non grata” and barred from Russia this month, according to people familiar with the ... Read more

E-Mails Show Jostling Over Benghazi ‘Talking Points’

WASHINGTON — E-mails released by the White House on Wednesday revealed a fierce internal jostling over the government’s official talking points in the aftermath of last September’s attack in ... Read more

White House Memo: White House Memo: Obama Tries to Regain Footing

WASHINGTON — President Obama was in the middle of a careful answer to a question about whether anyone in the White House knew that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups, when the ... Read more

Russia Expels American, Saying He Is a C.I.A. Officer

MOSCOW — He arrived at the meeting with two wigs — the blond one on his head held in place by a baseball cap, a brown one in his knapsack, which also held a compass, a Moscow street atlas and ... Read more

Op-Ed Contributor: The Deeper Blame for Benghazi

THE spectacle in Washington over the terrorist attack last Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya, is focusing on the wrong thing. The biggest American failure wasn’t in the tactical mistakes about ... Read more