Showing posts with label Secretary of State John F. Kerry. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Hillary Aide "Overpaid By Nearly $10,000 Because Of Violations Of Rules Governing Vacation And Sick Leave?

Hillary Aide "Overpaid By Nearly $10,000 Because Of Violations Of Rules Governing Vacation And Sick Leave?

August 01, 2015 Abedin , Hillary Rodham Clinton 0 Comments

Top Clinton Aide Accused Of Receiving Overpayments At State Department

By Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman and Carol D. Leonnig, July 31, 2015 Washington Post

State Department investigators concluded this year that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s closest aides, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules governing vacation and sick leave during her tenure as an official in the department.

The finding — which Abedin has formally contested — emerged publicly Friday after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters to Secretary of State John F. Kerry and others seeking more information about an investigation into possible “criminal” conduct by Abedin concerning her pay.

The letters also sought the status of an inquiry into whether Abedin had violated conflict-of-interest laws related to her special employment situation, which allowed her to work simultaneously for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and a private firm with close ties to the Clintons.

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Oh, that...

September 14, 2014 Beheading , Iraq 0 Comments
Obama Says Beheading ‘Not Islam,' But ‘Ally’ Saudi Arabia Beheaded 8 Last Month 

By Weasel Zippers / Ishaan Tharoor, Sept. 11, Weaselzippers.us / Washingtonpost.com

U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry was in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, meeting delegations of Arab diplomats as the Obama administrationattempts to cobble together a coalition of allies to confront the threat of the Islamic State. There are no illusions that the task ahead will be easy, and President Obama stressed in his Wednesday night speech the vital role Arab states have to play in breaking the terror organization's insurgency.

The active cooperation of Saudi Arabia, with its vast oil wealth, its well-equipped military and its broader influence among the Middle East's Sunni states, is key to any extended U.S. war effort in Iraq and Syria, as The Post's Anne Gearan reports from Jiddah. Though long an incubator of the Salafist ideology that now inflames the Islamic State and militant groups of its ilk, the kingdom has grown increasingly concerned with the destabilizing chaos the Islamic State has wrought in the region.

But that doesn't mean its state ideology is necessarily changing. The country is notorious for its draconian laws, which are derived from a strict Wahhabist interpretation of Islamic doctrine. In the space of two weeks last month, according to the rights group Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia executed as many as 22 people. At least eight of those executed were beheaded, U.N. observers say.

It appears that the majority of those executed in August were guilty of nonlethal crimes, including drug trafficking, adultery, apostasy and "sorcery." Four members of one family, Amnesty reports, were beheaded for "receiving drugs."

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