Last year's survey by the Department of Health showed more posts were taking longer to fill, and the average number of applicants for each post had fallen.
After the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the State Department found that 85% of its overseas posts had lax security, exposing them to the risk of terrorist attack.
Minutes later, a series of Twitter posts from the Boston Police Department trumpeted the news.
Lloyd would bring an important combination of strategic thinking, regional knowledge and proven judgment to one of the most critical posts in the department.
The department dispatched teams of diplomatic and military officials to assess 19 high-threat posts and recommend security arrangements for each one.
The newspaper reported Monday that a GAO investigation had found data indicating that an unauthorized person had gained access to computers at two overseas posts, causing the department to shut down at least part of one of its international computer systems.
"Ankara is one of the posts that is due for a completely new embassy compound in the future, and it is one of the posts that will go on the lists if the department gets the money that we are looking from the Congress for security, " she said.
The State Department has done a review, and these funds will be used to expedite construction of Marine security guard posts at overseas facilities, and to build secure embassies.
Clinton detailed what the State Department has done to begin implementing the 29 recommendations of the Accountability Review Board to improve security at diplomatic posts in high-threat areas, in addition to a few of her own.
She outlined some steps the agency would take, including sending hundreds of US Marines guards to missions abroad and assigning a state department official to oversee "high-threat posts".
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