The State Department decided it needed a new embassy in London because the existing embassy wasn't secure enough.  So it purchased land and built a fortress, blending diverse architectural styles from George Orwell, Joseph Stalin, Robocop, the "Borg" from Star Trek, and others to produce this visual monstrosity. Why did State have to spend a billion dollars on a building?  We are told not to worry about it, because the American taxpayer didn't pay a penny for it!  Not a cent!  The proceeds for the new building came from the sale of the old embassy.  The fact that hundreds of millions of dollars could have been returned to the Treasury while still building a perfectly adequate embassy never occurred to the bureaucrats at State.  Since it was the sale of "government" land, the money was obviously the "government's," never having come from taxpayer pockets.  Instead, State used the billion...(Read Full Post)