State Department Failed to Fulfill a Key Duty in 2022

The Biden State Department has thus far conveniently neglected to issue a report on global terrorist threats during the year 2021, one of the most dangerous periods in years.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Tunisian President Kais Saied (not pictured) during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., December 14, 2022.

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For the first time since the 2004 congressional mandate that the secretary of State submit an annual report on international terrorism to the speaker of the House of Representatives, the State Department has failed to fulfill this duty. No Country Reports on Terrorism was issued in 2022.

Major events happen so frequently lately that little ones often go unnoticed. Between Russian atrocities in Ukraine, Iranian atrocities in Iran, and the Biden administration’s atrocious policies at home, it was easy to overlook this missing report last year.

A. J. Caschetta

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A. J. Caschetta

A. J. Caschetta is a Milstein fellow at the Middle East Forum, chief political correspondent at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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