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Price of Security at State Department: Really Freaking’ Expensive

They say you can’t put a price on safety, but the State Department has: $750 million to hire 150 new security agents. Wait– that works out to five million per secure person hired. Where do we sign up?...

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Lamb to Slaughter: Benghazi, Cheryl Mills and Hillary Clinton

An interesting bit of information, unconfirmed, raises new questions about how close Hillary was to the Benghazi decisions and decision-makers. Here is what we have: Lamb to the Slaughter One of the...

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Did Eric Boswell Really Resign over Benghazi Fail? Define “Resign”

In one of her final acts as Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton accepted the “resignation” of her head of Diplomatic Security, Eric J. Boswell. Boswell was portrayed in the media as the highest ranking...

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Deedy Done It Different

America’s favorite Diplomatic Security “special” agent Chris Deedy is engaged in what promises to be one of Hawaii’s longest trial processes. For those just joining us, recap here. For those too...

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State Department Sleaze Accumulates without Real Response

Breaking Bad! Two new sleazy State Department actions– a sweetheart consulting deal for one of Hillary’s best buds and accusations of an affair and hookers for a senior State official. See below!...

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State Dept Security Agent Deedy Murder Trial (Finally) Underway

Two years ago State Department Diplomatic Security Special Agent Christopher Deedy was briefly in Hawaii protecting Hillary Clinton. Deedy, off duty, shot and killed a local man. Two years later the...

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New Deedy Video Shows More of What Happened Before Shooting

If you’re not up-to-date on the Hawaiian murder trial of accused State Department Diplomatic Security Agent Chris Deedy, here is the 411. New video of the shooting is now online. Watch the whole thing,...

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Deedy Testifies in Hawaii Murder Trial

Diplomatic Security Special Agent Chris Deedy, accused of second degree murder in the shooting death of a Hawaiian man, took the stand to testify. I was unable to locate a transcript of the testimony....

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DS BS? State Department Firearms Policy Classified Days After Deedy Shooting

Curiouser and curioser as they say. A reader called our attention to the fact that the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security removed its long-unclassified version of its firearms policy from...

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Deedy Mistrial in Hawaii Shooting; Saga Moves into Third Year

Hawaiian newspapers reported today that the judge declared a mistrial Monday in the Second Degree murder trial of State Department special agent Chris Deedy. Jurors said they couldn’t unanimously...

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Barrett Brown: The Criminalization of Web Links

This– A LINK— could have sent me to jail. Another link came very, very close to sending Barrett Brown to jail. First, a quick recap of how the internet works. People from all over the world put stuff...

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State Dept. Has Lowest Ranking in Government for FOIA Request Replies

One of the better ideas of modern government in America was the creation in 1966, and amendment in 1974, of the Freedom of Information Act. The concept behind it dates right back to the Founding–...

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State Department Diplomatic Security Employee Arrested on Child Porn Charge

A State Department Diplomatic Security employee with high-level access to government IT and security resources was arrested in Broward County, Florida on a federal charges of possessing child...

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Security Guard at U.S. Embassy Arrested as a Terrorist

So this was only in Egypt, where there’s no terrorism threat anyway, so meh. No, wait, this is something. To the shock of U.S. officials, local authorities arrested an Egyptian security guard and...

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DS Deedy Update: Shooting in Hawaii Now Headed to Third Trial?

I didn’t realize that it had been almost two years since we had an update on the Chris Deedy (center in the photo) case, and a lot/not much has transpired. Let’s catch up! Recap For those new to the...

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