Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post reports that the Department of State will cut 10 percent of existing diplomatic personnel in 2008.  Vacancies were created around the world when mid- and upper-level diplomatic personnel moved to staff American embassies in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Many of these vacancies may now become ...

Al Kamen of the Washington Post has "intercepted" a memo from U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker to embassy staff noting that  60 new bunkers are being built on the territory of the U.S. Embassy.  Crocker has also been pushing for more armored vehicles to transport staff inside the compound, ...

You may want to look up Walter Pincus's June 1, 2006 article in the Washington Post.  Protecting spies' identities is very difficult.  Charlie Peters, in his "Tilting at Windmills" article on this site (dated May 19th 2006), made the same point.

Here's what he said: 

We’ve been warning our readers for ...

Before moving on to 2006, let's take a brief moment to survey the issues that percolated on The Forum in 2005.  What is the status of efforts to make the income of federal employees deployed overseas nontaxable?  And more fundamentally, Should it be? by Anonymous at 10:06AM (EDT) on Oct 7, 2005 ...

by Anonymous on 2005.10.07 10:11AM EDT  | I am a federal employee aerving in IRAQ. I work beside Uniformed military and DOD contractors. Uniformed military are given a tax exemption on ...