Rice Proposes Sweeping State Department Changes to Better Combat 21st-Century Threats

By Keith Costa / August 1, 2005 at 5:00 AM
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice unveiled a package of proposals last week that if approved by Congress would give the department she runs a dramatic new look by merging some organizations and beefing up others. The recommended changes include merging the State Department's existing arms control and nonproliferation offices to form the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN). Presently, the department's organization is better geared toward fighting the Cold War than the kinds of threats the United States must...

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