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Top Most Visited Posts of 2014:

• Indian Diplomat Devyani Khobragade Strip Search Video Is Fake – Here’s Proof (1/4/2014)

• Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? The Must-Read Embassy Edition (5/7/2014)

• IamA United States Diplomat: Anonymous FSO Gets on Reddit and He’s a Riot! (2/18/2014)

• US Embassy New Delhi RSO Wayne May Given 48 Hours to Leave India Over L’Affaire Khobragade (1/11/2014)

• Eek! Diplomats Union Opposes Creation of Under Secretary for Security — Badda bing badda boom?! (5/5/2014)

• Tweet of the Day: “Thanks for showing me your gun. I like this one.” (7/24/2014)

• US Embassy Moscow: FS Employee Hurt in Apartment Building Gas Explosion Dies (6/6/2014)

• Now This — A WH Petition to Remove Amb to Thailand Kristie Kenney For Twitter Selfies (6/9/2014)

• US Embassy Yemen: Revocation of U.S. Passports, a Growing Trend? (1/13/2014)

• State Dept Security Officer Alleged Sexual Misconduct: Spans 10 Years, 7 Posts (10/17/2014)

The following posts are our additional picks for the year, just because:

• Women in the Foreign Service — go own the night like the Fourth of July!

• State Department Issues Nomination Call For First Golden Gooseberry Awards

• The #PromiseofHashtag Ignites the Net, and the State Dept Spox Gets Roasted

• Death in the Foreign Service: Why we said “no” to an Embassy Information Sanitation Dude

• Dear White House, About That John Kerry as Sandra Bullock in Space — Just. Stop. It.

• State Dept Asks A Most Important Question: Folks, the Internet Answers Are Not/Not Pretty

• Don’t Give Up On Us Baby: State Dept OIG Writes Back on Leadership and Management

• The Cautionary Tale of Raymond Maxwell: When the Bureaucracy Bites, Who Gets The Blame?

• State Dept’s Critical National Security Database Crashes, Melts Global Travelers’ Patience

• Burn Bag: CA Bureau’s Biggest Problems — Washington Post and Diplopundit, Really?

A special note — Drowning in Smoggy Delhi: There’s No Blue Sky, So Where’s Blueair? (Updated) (1/29/2014), we just heard that Mission India has now distributed Blueair air purifiers to embassy employees, and that the lungs are grateful!

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