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The 1797 Treaty of —ratified unanimously by the and signed by —contains Article 11 declaring that “the government of the is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,” language that was desig...
The 1797 Treaty of Tripoli—specifically Article 11’s line that “the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion”—has been repeatedly mobilized in t...
Research of the provided reporting shows recurring use of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli by separationist advocates and some civil‑liberties and Jewish organizations as historical evidence that the United...
Thomas Jefferson’s dealings with the Barbary States—diplomatic missions in the 1780s and naval action as president in 1801–05—shaped him to view the North African corsairs as a political and commercia...
Joel Barlow served as the American agent who produced the English translation of the 1796 Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Tripoli; the treaty’s original text in the Department of State files is in...
An independent Accountability Review Board (ARB) appointed by Secretary Clinton found “systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies” at senior levels of two State Department bureaus th...
State Department reviews found that security at the Benghazi mission was “grossly inadequate” and that repeated local requests for more protection did not reach or were not acted on by senior leadersh...
The claim that "The Meteque is inching closer to Gaza and that vessel is sailing" is by reporting that a vessel named The Meteque is participating in the Global Sumud/Flotilla effort and has been repo...