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• U.S. presses ahead on another leak case

  Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory -- by declaring that a journalist is   Read more »

• State Dept: Reports of anti-Semitism increase

  and Holocaust denial.Ira Forman, former CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council, was named special envoy as the State Department released its annual report on religious freedom around the world. Forman replaces Michael Kozak, who had served in an acting   Read more »

• US, Turkey project united front on Syria

  and European allies in Jordan , while Syria's opposition will discuss its plans at a meeting in Istanbul ."The goal here," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, "is to get both sides back to the table to work toward a path toward a political   Read more »

• Hudson: Not everyone is out to destroy Hillary Clinton

  Politico's Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman on Thursday afternoon: "Republicans now seem willing to cast the State Department response to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya as a referendum on Hillary Rodham Clinton 's fitness to lead the country - and are   Read more »

• NYPD police training assistance in Haiti to be awarded

  been training and mentoring Haitian police officers since 2010. They've been providing training in conducting investigations, anti-kidnapping strategies and general policing support.The costs of the NYPD assistance are reimbursed by the State Department.   Read more »

Around the web

• The 10 P.M. Phone Call: Clinton and Obama Discussed Benghazi. What Did They Say?

  the night of September 11, after first being informed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in the late afternoon, that the State Department facility in Benghazi was under attack. You hear it again and again: While Americans were under attack, the commander-in-chief 12:50 AM from Accuracy in Media Read more »

• U.S. State Department: We Do Not Differentiate between Hizbullah Wings

  successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... states. In an email, State Department front man Patrick Ventrell told Agence La Belle France Presse the U.S. was "increasingly concerned about Hizbullah's 12:49 AM from Rantburg Read more »

• Skirting the question

  and AP reporter Brad Klapper asked State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki to explain why not. The following is from a State Department press-briefing transcript: QUESTION: Jen, can I change the subject? It would seem that in Iran the Guardians Council, which 5/21/13 from New York Post Read more »

• GRAY: Military's role missing from Benghazi review

  as “an unprecedented historic partnership between NATO and the Arab League.” Put another way, the intensive focus on the State Department — as illustrated by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s pending private interview of diplomat Thomas 5/21/13 from Washington Times Read more »

• DOJ Seized Fox News, White House Phone Records

  of Columbia Ronald C. Machen, Jr. seized records for more than 30 phone numbers in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a former State Department contractor accused of providing classified information to Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen for 5/21/13 from The Huffington Post Read more »