WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department confirmed Monday that it is conducting an ongoing effort to evaluate intelligence regarding the possibility of terrorist attacks as it decides whether to open or close any more foreign embassies.
U.S State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Monday that “we are going to keep evaluating information as it comes in, keep analyzing the various intelligence that we’re getting in in regards to this stream, so that’s why you saw yesterday we announced that some would be reopening and some would be – additional embassies and consulates would be closing today. So we’re just going to keep doing the process of analyzing the information and making adjustments where we need to. But overall, what we are doing is taking precautionary steps out of an abundance of caution to protect our people and our facilities and visitors to those facilities overseas.”
