Diplopundit’s Blog Index for July 2009


Snapshot of Service in the Emerald City

SFRC Clears 16 More Ambassador-Nominees

Ambassador Hill with Charlie Rose

US Mission Mexico: Some Good News, Some Bad News

SFRC Hearings: Aaron Williams

SFRC Hearings: Eacho, Barzun, Foley, Murphy, Garbe…

SFRC Hearings: Posner, Jones, Cousin, Killion, Kor…

US Embassy Jakarta Runs FotObama Competition

Quickie: Gunning for London via Baghdad? Better Hu…

Video of the Week: Erik Hersman on Texting on a C…

Confirmed: Ambassadors to Europe and the Western …

Officially In: Jose W. Fernandez to be A/S at EEB…

Officially In: Alberto Fernandez to Malabo

Horn v. Huddle: A Cable, A Table, and Something in…

Virtual Advisory Committees for AFSA

FS Blog: Calling a Spade a Spade

Secretary Clinton’s Mumbai Meet and Greet

14 State Dept Nominees Clears the SFRC

Quickie: Downsizing US Embassy Baghdad; Yes, Pleas…

You can’t serve in Iraq if you’re on MEDs?

SFRC Hearings: Six Ambassador-Nominees at the Senate…

SFRC Hearings: Kaplan, Smith, Gross, Diaz

Horn v. Huddle, et.al: Under State Secrets No More…

SFRC Hearings: Ten Ambassador-Nominees Before the …

Officially In: Lee A. Feinstein to Warsaw

Officially In: Robert Hormats to “E”

State’s “T” Bureau”: Where Restructuring Was “Easy…

Operation Jaque: Post-Rescue Photos Now Online

Video of the Week: PW Singer on Military Robots

Top Most Dangerous Assignments in the Foreign Service…

Secretary Clinton at the Council on Foreign Relations…

SFRC Hearings: Derse, Beyer, Gutman, Thorne

Officially In: Glyn Davies to UNVIE and IAEA

What’s going to happen to USAID? Jack Lew.

SFRC Hearings: Martinez, Avant, Thummalapally, Nay…

Insider Quote: Negroponte Moving On…

Top Hardship Assignments in the Foreign Service

FS Grievance Board Decides on 2007 SFS Performance…

Quickie: Fiction with a Dash of Reality …

Insider Quote: Conflict-Averse Managerial Culture

Idle Curiosity Can Get You in Very Hot Waters

Confirmed: Dell, Rivkin, Susman, Fulton, Roemer, …

Video of the Week: Howard Rheingold on Collaboration…

Secretary Clinton’s Town Hall on QDDR

Officially In: Philip D. Murphy to Berlin

Top Most Expensive Places to Live in the Foreign Service…

Insider Quote: Learning a Language – the Best Anti…

SFRC Clears 12 Nominations

Officially In: Michael H. Posner to DRL

Officially In: Stephen J. Rapp to S/WCI

Officially In: Kerri-Ann Jones to OES

Quickie: The Leadership & Management Legacy

SFRC Hearings: Valenzuela, Shannon, Pascual, Merten…

SFRC Hearings: Roemer, Schmierer, Gray; Fulton, …

Officially In: 6th Batch of Nominees for Ambassador…

Sexing up the 360-Degree Feedback, Revisited

Video of the Week: Deborah Scranton’s “War Tapes”

The CIA’s Plan for Improving Foreign Language…

Blog Index for June 2009

Report on Pay and Benefits of Deployed Civilians i…

Quote: Bob Gates on Public Service

Officially In: David Thorne to Rome

Officially In: Charles Ray to Harare

Officially In: Bruce Oreck to Helsinki

Officially In: Karen Kornbluh to OECD

Officially In: James Knight to Cotonou