State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki
Obama State Dep’t in 2014: ‘Our Priority and Our Focus is on Non-Lethal Assistance’ for Ukraine
As Russia increased its military intervention in Ukraine in 2014, the Obama administation applied economic sanctions but declined to provide weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainians, limiting military...
Blitzer Hammers Psaki Over Video Editing Iran Lies; Big Deal to ‘Flat Out Lie to the News Media’
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In her first TV interview since the State Department admitted to having intentionally deleted portions of a State Department press briefing, former State...
Adminstration Stands by Assertion that Yemen Has Been a Counter-Terror Success
The Obama administration stands by the president’s assertion last September that Yemen is an example of counter-terrorism success, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at her final daily press...
State Dep’t Won’t Say if Dodging Senate Role Was a Factor in Decision Not to Pursue Iran Nuclear Treaty
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki tussled with a reporter Thursday when asked whether the administration was pursuing a “non-binding” nuclear agreement with Iran in order to sidestep the...
State Dep’t Says it’s Not Suggesting Lack of Opportunity ‘is the Only Factor’ in Terror Recruitment
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki would not comment Thursday on reports saying an ISIS terrorist who has beheaded Americans is an educated, middle-class Briton, but speaking in general, she said the...
Netanyahu Says Israel Does Know What’s in the Proposed Iran Nuclear Deal – And it’s Bad
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has pushed back at the inference that his government does not know the details of a proposed negotiated agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, saying it does...
State Dep’t Says it is ‘Requesting’ That Iran-Backed Militia in Yemen Return Seized US Property
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Wednesday confirmed that U.S. Embassy “vehicles and equipment” had been seized in Yemen, reportedly by the Iranian-backed, anti-U.S. Shi’ite...
State Dep’t Disputes That its Response to Turkey’s Close Ties to Hamas is ‘Muted’
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki demurred Thursday when asked whether Turkey risked being listed as a state sponsor of terrorism over its close relationship with Hamas, and she took issue with the...
State Dep’t Not OK With Taiwan Flag Raising in DC. What About Flag of Narnia, Reporter Asks?
After State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the raising of Taiwan’s flag at a private Jan. 1 event in Washington was “not consistent with U.S. policy,” a reporter asked, “If...
State Dep’t Won’t Confirm Report That US is Concerned About Iranian Nuclear Cheating
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Monday insisted that Iran is meeting its obligations under an interim nuclear agreement, but declined to comment on allegations in a news report that Iran is breaching...
State Dep’t Spokeswoman Calls Her Egypt Talking-Point ‘Ridiculous’
Shortly after baffling reporters with a non-answer on the administration’s view of the acquittal of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki in an unguarded...
Administration Won’t Say Whether it Supports Mubarak’s Acquittal
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki repeatedly declined to say Monday whether the administration supported or opposed an Egyptian court’s decision to drop charges against former President Hosni...
State Dep’t Tells Congress Not to Judge an Iran Nuclear Agreement Before It’s a Done Deal
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday members of Congress should wait until a final Iran nuclear agreement was reached before judging it – but then demurred when asked whether that...
State Dep’t Doesn’t Comment on US-Palestinian Teen's Burial in Hamas Headband
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday the administration did not regard a Palestinian-American teenager, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers while allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at...
State Dep’t Defends Abbas, Won’t Comment on His Silence After Attack
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Thursday sidestepped an invitation to comment on Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ silence in response to the killing of an American baby in...
State Department Disagrees With Netanyahu's Charge That Militant Islam Aims to ‘Dominate World’
The Obama administration does not share Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s view that the forces of militant Islam, whether Sunni or Shi’ite, have in common an ultimate goal “to dominate...
Is US ‘At War’ With ISIS? State’s Psaki Says ‘I’m Not Going to Put New Labels On It’
Asked Tuesday whether the Obama administration considered the reported beheading of Steven Sotloff – the second American journalist killed in that manner by ISIS in two weeks – to be an act of war,...
US Envoy Says Russia Must be Made to ‘Listen’ But Aid to Ukraine Still Limited to ‘Nonlethal’
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power said Thursday Russia must be made to “listen” to the international community’s objections to its military intervention in Ukraine. But the U.S. response...