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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on January 26, 2017, 11:48:30 AM
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The State Department's entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, The Washington Post reported.
Patrick Kennedy, the agency's undersecretary for management who had served in the role for nine years, resigned unexpectedly along with three of his top officials
Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, resigned as well, the report said.
All of them served under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
They join a number of other officials who have departed since President Trump took office last week.
Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr retired, and director of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations Lydia Muniz left on Friday.
“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” said David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/316283-state-departments-senior-management-team-resigns-report
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Well, it's a start. State has needed a housecleaning for a looooong time, Bush made a huge mistake by not cleaning it out and relying on Democrat loyalists and their agenda being firmly embedded in all the leadership positions, including the career ones.
ETA - Not that Bush and his team didn't have their own share of stupid ideas, like that everywhere they got rid of an autocrat Western democracy would magically ascend to power, which proved to be so stupid that Obozo and Clinton continued it.
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This was a handful of upper mid-level bureaucrats. Every President since Truman should have purged Foggy Bottom. Evidently a few of the rats fear the new sheriff in town might be serious, and jumped ship.
(I love slicing, dicing, and julienning metaphors)
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Heh! the WashPost's disingenuous alarmism set straight by :o Vox :o (http://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/27/14405542/washington-post-state-department-resignations).
So, this was the equivalent of what happened with US ambassadors. These administrators submitted their resignations as a matter of custom, and Trump accepted them. No crisis, no anti-Trump protest, just business as usual.