The Secretary of State’s office released a statement on Libya Friday morning. In Clinton’s statement she announces that $1.5 Billion in funds previously frozen by the United States would be made available to the transitional government – the TNC or Transitional National Council. Today, the Libya Contact Group held a meeting in Istanbul to demonstrate [...]
Pictured at left is interim Prime Minister of Libya, Mahmoud Jibril (courtesy of Vincent Kessler/ Reuters.) He was originally educated in Egypt and then later received his PhD from The University of Pittsburgh. He is also a former member of Khadafy’s regime who was working with his son Saif on economic reforms in Libya. While in college [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made the rounds on the Sunday talk show circuit in a seemingly weak attempt to explain to the nation our unexplained involvement in the Libyan Civil War of 2011. Let’s see here, they were on ABC’s ” This Week, ” NBC’s ” Meet the [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today accepted the resignation of the State Department Spokesman, P.J. Crowley. Crowley had been critical of the Pentagon on the detention of Private Manning, the service member that illegally delivered thousands of United State secrets to WikiLeaks. While attending an MIT event, Crowley responded to an audience question on the treatment [...]
