Blog Index | October 2010

Oh, PJ Crowley, she can see you from Wasilla, you, enemy coddler, you!..

Kabul Embassy Security Force contract now combined...

Cameron Munter, new US Ambassador to Pakistan arrives in Islamabad...

Civilian Surge in Afghanistan: Authorized and Filled Positions...

SIGAR recommends US Ambassador in Kabul do something with dat civilian surge...

Karzai Our Guy and Theirs ... Two-Ply Strategery Plays in Great Tackery...

Eight days till election day - do you know your Hatch Act Rules?...

Video of the Week: Jack Black as Professional "Mis-Informant" ...

$70K for "friendship, $40K for applying to the CIA, how much was he paid to apply for the Foreign Service...

US ConGen Karachi issues Warden Message on spreading violence...

EEOC certifies class action against State Dept on behalf of disabled FS applicants ...

George P. Schultz writes Ideas and Action: 10 Commandments...

Murder in London: No Diplomatic Immunity Pass for Saudi Prince...

Turning Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

ePRT Iraq: Hope and Do No Harm, Poor Planning Methods...

A new personnel specialty: the "expeditionary diplomat"?...

Osama Esam Saleem Ayesh: US Emb Baghdad Local Employee Charged with...

US Embassy Guyana Revises Photo Contest Rules Afte IPR Flak..

Insider Quote: "no reason to hurry down the aisle ...

Video of the Week: Condi not going to chirp at the people inside...

Foreign Service Hiring Projections for FY 2009-2013...

Former WHA PDAS Craig Kelly Joins Top Heavy Cohen Group...

Bob Sutton on Luis Urzua, the Trapped Miners and Leadership...

NYT Review on Condi's book: "rarely a hair out of...

See SPOT run. Run SPOT run. Um, sorry SPOT can't run and count...

US Embassy Sana'a: Honoring the Victims of the USS Cole Bombing...

Mail received: Don't worry about tacky ESTA ... now used to USG tackiness...

AFSA: Why Some Game Changers Are Needed Sooner Not Later..

Photo Exhibit | Imagining the Muslim World by Derek Brown...

Open, transparent and above-board in a closed, secretive, and pre-determined sort of way...

What? No senior Department of State officer resigned in protest?...

All countries make mistakes [...] but countries compound their errors when they cannot learn from them...

NCIS grabs fugitive DHS employee aka vanished "US diplomat" in a casino ...

Happy glad to see a lot of familiar names in the 2010 promotion list...

Senate Hold and Jam Roundup: Bryza, Ricciardone, Eisen and Ford...

Europe Travel Alert | Steering clear of some place (not always possible even if you're ....

The Afghan Plan: Where Dakota rides a chariot one step from being on fire in Herat ...

PASO looking for Stratcom Officer -- sounds like Mil but Civ...

US Embassy Guyana's Photo Contest Creates IPR Controversy...

Senator Menendez on Bryza hold: "absolutely nothing to do with ethnic origin of his wife"...

US citizen in Mosul offers $6,000,000 for "prospective role "of taking care of found money...

The 'forgotten victims' of the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Africa

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Unfilled ambassador posts hurt the United States ....

Diplopundit Blog Index | September 2010