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Biden State Dept. Creates ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Position

March 2, 2021March 1, 2021 Minnesota Sun Staff

President Biden’s State Department announced Wednesday the creation of a chief diversity officer position, as well as a council of deputy assistant secretaries from each of its bureaus, in an effort to bring “diversity and inclusion” to the department, Fox News reported.

“I am committed to bringing the diversity and inclusion work already underway at the State Department to the next level,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday. “To make that happen, I am pleased to announce the creation of a new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer position at State.”

State Dept. Officials Told They Broke Law by Monitoring Americans During Ukraine Scandal

October 7, 2020October 6, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

State Department officials were explicitly ordered in spring 2019 to stop tracking 13 prominent Americans’ social media accounts for information about the Joe Biden-Ukraine scandal because the monitoring violated federal law, according to emails that were originally redacted to hide the concerns from the American public.

“We are barred by law from actively monitoring the accounts of American citizens in aggregate — and particularly from identifying and monitoring individual, selected accounts,” a State Department official wrote in an April 1, 2019 email to officials in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Kiev.

United States Has Revoked Over 1,000 Visas for ‘Security Risks’ from China

September 11, 2020September 10, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

Since June, over 1,000 Chinese nationals located in the United States have had their visas revoked after being labeled national security risks, as reported by CNN.
The State Department released a statement on Wednesday addressing the matter, revealing that the initiative had specifically targeted “graduate students and research scholars” at various American universities who had been determined to be “high-risk,” and were thus removed from the country.

State Department Inspector General Is Fired, Was Investigated for Mishandling Sensitive Information

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

President Donald Trump fired Steve Linick, the State Department’s inspector general, on Friday night, sources told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Trump notified House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that he was removing Linick from office, effective in 30 days. He said in the letter that “it is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as Inspectors General.”

The State Department Rescued Over 50,000 Americans Since Coronavirus Crisis Began

April 10, 2020April 9, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

The State Department has repatriated more than 50,000 U.S. citizens stranded around the world since the coronavirus began, the administration revealed on Wednesday.

State Department Suspends Visa Services Across the World

March 20, 2020March 19, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

The State Department is suspending visa services in most countries across the world, the Trump administration’s latest response to mitigating the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

In a statement released late Wednesday, the State Department announced it’s cancelling all routine immigrant and nonimmigrant appoints at embassies and consulates in numerous countries. The suspensions became effective immediately, and no specific date was provided on when services would begin again.

Hunter Biden Was on Board of Trade Coalition Lobbying Obama Admin on Ukraine Aid

February 18, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

Hunter Biden was on the board of a trade coalition that lobbied the Obama administration in 2014 on foreign assistance to Ukraine, and appears to have set up a State Department meeting for the group’s president.

Biden’s links to the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) and its affiliate, the Center for U.S. Global Leadership, have gone largely unreported in the coverage of his various business dealings, which have caused a headache for his father as he runs for president.

Twitter Responds After Obama-Era State Dept Official Katie Stanton Demands Company Nix Trump’s Tweets on Iran

January 7, 2020January 6, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

Twitter is refusing to pull down a President Donald Trump’s tweet threatening future strikes against Iran despite calls from an Obama-era official to do something about the president’s account.

Commentary: It’s Time for Civilian Control of the State Department

December 1, 2019November 30, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Consumers of the corporate leftist media’s political coverage have heard a drumbeat of reports that an honorable, highly capable, long-serving diplomat recently was driven from office following a vicious, conspiracy-driven smear campaign by dishonest, shameless partisans who leaked misleading stories to the media, generally abused power, and disregarded the constitutional chain of authority.

Report: US May Set Refugee Cap at Zero for Coming Year

July 22, 2019July 21, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Victoria Macchi The Trump administration is considering more dramatic cuts to the U.S. refugee program, with one official suggesting the White House not allow any refugees into the country in the coming fiscal year. In a Politico report released Thursday, government officials from several federal agencies attended a meeting…

Commentary: Attorney General Barr’s Intelligence Review Should Include the DNC Servers

June 11, 2019June 10, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Robert Romano The Hill’s John Solomon made big news on June 6 when he reported that Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, said in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to be a Russian agent, was an intelligence source for the U.S. State Department. “In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman…

Obama White House Tracked FOIA Request for Hillary Emails that Was Improperly Denied

May 13, 2019January 2, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Chuck Ross The Obama White House kept tabs on a Freedom of Information Act request for information on former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s email accounts that the State Department improperly denied, according to newly released emails. The emails, which were provided to Judicial Watch, show for the…

Dr. Carol M. Swain Commentary: Trump’s Heroic Efforts to Fulfill His ‘Make America Great Again’ Promises

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Dr. Carol M. Swain With President Donald Trump about to begin his third year in office, it’s fitting to discuss what he has accomplished since his election. Although the news is currently dominated by the federal government shutdown and the conflict between Trump and Democratic leaders over the…

Michigan Star John James in the Running for UN Ambassador, Sources Claim

November 28, 2018November 28, 2018 Anthony Gockowski

Michigan Republican John James recently visited the White House to meet with top players in the Trump administration as some insiders claim he’s being considered as a replacement for UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. James rose to national prominence after his unsuccessful challenge of Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), but came closer…

State Department Cancels Next Round of North Korea Talks Without Explanation

November 8, 2018November 8, 2018 Admin

by Will Racke An upcoming round of high-level talks between the U.S. and North Korea has been postponed, the Department of State announced early Wednesday morning. “The meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean official Kim Yong Chol, which had been scheduled for Thursday in New York,…

Legal Watchdog, Citing Secret Material in Clinton Emails, Presses State Department in Court

October 14, 2018October 14, 2018 Admin

by Kevin Mooney In federal court hearings this week, a watchdog legal group keeps the heat on the State Department for answers about the exposure of classified information during Hillary Clinton’s use of unsecure email to conduct official business when she was secretary of state. A hearing is set…

PROOF: Trio of Project Veritas Videos Expose Unaccountable Federal Government Employees Pushing a Soclialist Agenda From Within the Administrative State

September 22, 2018September 21, 2018 Admin

By Natalia Castro When federal bureaucrats are unaccountable to even their own managers, it can be hard to identify and correct abuse within the system. In his most recent undercover expose, James O’Keefe sought to uncover the stories of the federal government’s worst employees directly from the source. This week,…

FAKE NEWS Fact Check: Trump Administration Challenges Washington Post Hispanic Passport Story

September 1, 2018September 4, 2018 Admin

by Fred Lucas The Trump administration is pushing back against the accuracy of a Washington Post story that suggests Hispanics applying for passports are facing discrimination from the federal government. Writing that “a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States…

Pompeo Extols ‘America’s Essential Rightness’ at State Department

May 17, 2018May 16, 2018 Admin

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday extolled the “essential rightness” of the United States in global affairs as he urged demoralized U.S. diplomats to act firmly and aggressively as they promote and carry out the Trump administration’s foreign policies. In a town hall pep talk to State Department employees,…