====Foreign policy====

=====Criticism of Amanda Knox's wrongful conviction=====

{{cite web |url=https://cantwell.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=320475 |title=Press Release of Senator Cantwell |access-date=December 22, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213010558/http://cantwell.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=320475 |archive-date=December 13, 2009 }}</ref> Cantwell said she would seek assistance from [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Hillary Clinton]]. A State Department spokesman said in December 2009 that the department had followed the case closely and would continue to do so. He added: "It is still in the early days but&nbsp;...&nbsp;we haven't received any indications necessarily that Italian law was not followed."<ref>[https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2009/dec/133266.htm US Department of State: Ian Kelly, Department Spokesman. Daily Press Briefing, Washington, DC 7 December 2009 Retrieved March 1, 2010.]</ref> Knox was later exonerated.<ref name=washpost>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/27/italian-high-court-overturns-amanda-knox-murder-conviction/ |title=Italian high court overturns Amanda Knox murder conviction |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 28, 2015}}</ref>