State Transition, Teleworking in the Cloud, and Your Money

“Now What” at the State Department Five former Secretaries of State offered advice for the next President at a forum at George Washington University...

“Now What” at the State Department

Five former Secretaries of State offered advice for the next President at a forum at George Washington University last week. CNN’s Frank Sesno and Christiane Amanpour moderated the forum; we heard comments made at the forum by each of the five former State Department heads, and we talked to Mr. Sesno about his perspective on the discussion.

A question from a viewer of the forum concerned US standing around the world. Ms. Amanpour posed the question to the panel.

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The recent unrest in eastern Europe has each of the former Secretaries thinking about our relationship with Russia. Secretary Kissinger commented first.

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As operations in Iraq are handed over more and more to Iraqis, Afghanistan is getting more attention from the US diplomatic corps, the military, and the world community. Ms. Amanpour asked the panel about the road ahead in that country.

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Ms. Amanpour’s co-moderator and CNN colleague, Frank Sesno, offered some observations on the forum.

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Teleworking in the Clouds

The General Services Administration has perhaps the most ambitious telework program in the Federal government. That means their Chief Information Officer, Casey Coleman, is one of the busiest CIOs in town. She gave us an update on telework deployment at GSA. We also talked tech about cloud computing, software as a service, and green computing, among other topics.

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Money, Money, Money

The wild changes in the financial markets are making lots of people nervous. Senior analyst for The Motley Fool, Robert Brokamp, is their Federal government and retirement specialist. He talked about how closely the market upheaval is getting to your retirement money , and what–if any–moves you should be making now.

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Favorite News Story of the Day

It’s actually a commentary today. Robert Samuelson explains how we got into the financial crisis better than I’ve seen anyone do, anywhere.

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