The Skeptical Bureaucrat

"As The Indpendent can reveal," there has been a virtual earthquake of internal protest within the State Department over the war i...

As many, many, commentators have pointed out, the U.S. military has more musicians than the U.S. State Department has Foreign Service Office...

Statement on State Department Family Members Killed in Earthquake Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today [January 26] paid tribute ...

The Wall Street Journal has taken notice of the large number of political donors and fundraisers who have been appointed to ambassadorial p...

Consul-at-Arms points out that the phrase "Stone Cold Professional Diplomats" would make a great name for an in-house State Depar...

The Obama administration hasn't actually appointed any ambassadors yet other than for UN Ambassador Susan Rice, so it's still possib...

From the Irish Times : DEAGLÁN DE BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent PROMINENT IRISH-AMERICAN businessman Dan Rooney, owner and chairman of th...

So far, this incident appears to be more embarrassing than damaging. Judging by what can be seen in this video , the lost files consist mos...

It's Vice Consul Ken Seeley versus Marshal Yun Usu in the 1949 film: State Department: File 649 , which can be viewed or downloaded here...

I've just discovered that the U.S. Library of Congress makes its Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomat...

Popular interest in the Great Foreign Service Rebellion of 2007 hasn't waned yet. Raucous contempt for those wussy diplomats seems to b...

You've no doubt seen the media coverage of the State Department's 'townhall meeting' to discuss Department plans for some in...