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Matt Lee
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Matt Lee
@APDiploWriter
AP Diplomatic Writer. Dad. Curmudgeon. Any snark is all mine. Ex-Buffalo, -Musselburgh, -CVille, -Phnom Penh, -Nairobi. Go Bills! Go Sabres! Hoya Saxa!
- It is without precedent (in my 20 years of doing this) and profoundly disappointing and disturbing that the @StateDept has been unable to come up with any kind of public response to alleged threats against a #US ambassador.
- WASHINGTON (AP) - After blowback from allies, White House says President Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps next month.
- This is factually incorrect. Decision to move embassy was made in 2008. And, Grosvenor Square site had numerous uncorrectable security issues.Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!
- People who have never experienced teargas should keep their traps shut about the experience of being teargassed.
- One part of what makes America great is everyone's right to stand, sit, kneel, sing, not sing, put hand over heart, not put hand over heart, salute, not salute during the national anthem. I've been in countries where it isn't. No one, right or left, should want to go there.
- RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - #Richmond mayor orders removal of all Confederate statues standing on city land.
- I'm so old, I remember when the George W. Bush administration appointed a special envoy to speed up Iraqi refugee admissions to the US.
- WASHINGTON (AP) Biden administration will move to lift #Cuba's state sponsor of terror designation in final days of term, AP sources say
- Countries (so far) where #US embassies have warned of possible violent protests over #Jerusalem decision: Afghanistan Austria Bangladesh Belarus Britain Croatia Egypt France Germany Greece Israel Italy Jordan Lithuania Morocco Norway Pakistan Portugal Spain Syria Turkey Venezuela
- The last time I can remember this many #US embassies issuing identical security alerts about possible violent protests over a presidential policy decision was in March 2003 at the start of the Iraq war.
- "Everything is burning, nothing will remain from the frame," Notre Dame spokesman Andre Finot. "The Latest: #NotreDame spire collapses, interior in flames" apnews.com/a0fbb1d19f7a44…
- Thanks to everyone following. Please know that I am not anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian. I am not anti-Russia or pro-Ukraine. I am pro-truth. And I try to get that truth from State Department briefings.
