The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned

[goldenequity]

YEP.... hang on....

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WaPo The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned (http://archive.is/K8RwD)



NyPo Senior staff resigns en masse from State Department (http://archive.is/gqHRr#selection-823.0-823.51)

Among those bailing on the Trump Administration
was Patrick Kennedy State’s long-time undersecretary for management,
The Washington Post reported.

Kennedy, who joined the agency in 1973,
had been active in the transition from John Kerry to the former-Exxon/Mobil chief,
and was said to want to remain in his post.

But once word got out that Team Trump was looking to give him the boot and hire someone else,
he and three of his top aides bailed.

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This is the CIA infested 'swamp' of State Department bureaucracy gutting itself.
Good riddance.

[specsaregood]

good riddance, about time to get rid of the taint of these career leeches that have been there through the last 15+ years of warmongering.

[vita3]

Trump was really the change candidate. Lol

[timosman]

Drain the swamp?:cool:

[euphemia]

Yup. These are the people who kept things going so Hillary could fly around the world and sell herself to anyone with money to pay.

[phill4paul]

Good.

[Jan2017]

Drain the swamp?:cool:

OK . . .
and now FBI and a Special Prosecutor can look at all their archival email government property for even more traces of
Hilly classified State Dept. documents - it is only a 3-count indictment Hilly is on the ropes for after all the property destruction she did,
but surely there is plenty more to find.

also, Ron Paul as an Undersecretary of State ?

[TheTexan]

Oh no, whatever will we do, without all these very important employees who serve such a critical and necessary role!?

[timosman]

OK . . .
and now FBI and a Special Prosecutor can look at all their archival email government property for even more traces of
Hilly classified State Dept. documents - it is only a 3-count indictment Hilly is on the ropes for after all the property destruction she did,
but surely there is plenty more to find.

also, Ron Paul as an Undersecretary of State ?

There are dudes in the State Dept. with copies of everything, waiting to be asked if they have something.

[TheCount]

it is only a 3-count indictment Hilly is on the ropes for after all the property destruction she didOh yeah, she's on the ropes. Any minute now she'll be indicted... any minute...

https://i.imgur.com/DNsXXq9.jpg

[CPUd]

Trump’s team weighs retooling State to focus on terror


Donald Trump’s team wants to restructure the State Department to focus more heavily on counterterrorism — a move that could dramatically reduce the time and resources devoted to climate change, promoting democracy abroad and other programs seen as liberal priorities.

Sources familiar with the transition discussions told POLITICO that talks with State officials have convinced the president-elect’s transition team that the department is underutilized and overshadowed by the Pentagon and the White House-based National Security Council, which have typically taken the lead on the counterterrorism front. Beefing up State’s anti-terror focus also dovetails with Trump’s tough campaign rhetoric, as well as the anti-Islamist views of several of his aides.

A retooling plan would likely include enhancing State's intelligence unit, eliminating several special envoy positions and promoting the use of the contentious term “radical Islam.” At the same time, the department is looking to de-emphasize policies that are centered on nation-building abroad, in keeping with Trump's "America First" rhetoric, according to the sources.

On counterterrorism, “State has really been the least useful in terms of the president’s day-to-day tool kit for exercising power and meeting challenges,” a person familiar with the transition deliberations said. He insisted that the goal isn’t to “militarize State” but rather to shepherd its wide-ranging diplomatic efforts more toward stopping the spread of terrorist ideology.

It’s still too soon to tell exactly what this plan will look like or how well it will work. The Trump team has filled few of the available State Department positions so far, though a large raft of new hires is expected next week. And there has been a concerted effort to keep people who opposed Trump in the election from joining the department, sources say.

There may be resistance in parts of the Foreign Service to the reallocation of resources away from some of the department’s many functions. The plan also may face opposition from the Defense Department, intelligence agencies and other government units wary of ceding territory to State. But the implication is that diplomatic efforts focused on issues not directly related to terrorism, such as promoting U.S. arts and culture or standing up for workers’ rights overseas, may see less support under Trump.

“I think that there’s a perception that a lot of the stuff that State does, like promoting the arts and minority groups, the sense is that a lot of that stuff is just pandering to Democratic Party domestic constituencies in the United States,” the person familiar with the deliberations said. “It’s not about serving any identifiable American interest.”

Another source said: "It's going to be more about terrorism and less about climate change."

During his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 11, secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, devoted an early and considerable chunk of his opening remarks to the fight against Islamist terrorism. He said that defeating the Islamic State terror network, also known as ISIS or ISIL, must be the top priority of the United States in the Middle East.

“There are competing priorities in this region which must be and will be addressed, but they must not distract from our utmost mission of defeating ISIS,” Tillerson said. “Because when everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.”
...
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-terror-state-department-233733

[brushfire]

#MAGA

[seapilot]

One department down dozens more to go....

[enhanced_deficit]

This is good news. Will they be hired by Clinton Foundation or DNC?

There were rumors that Clinton Foundation was also letting go many staff.

[AZJoe]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M_yhz-KlZ3Q/TnYoD5xeHXI/AAAAAAAACmM/gH8uLe42BPI/s1600/P1070759.JPG

[Jamesiv1]

Adios, mofos.

[Brian4Liberty]

And replace them with...nobody.

[jllundqu]

Funny how the headline makes the angle like they resigned in protest or something else....

They were ABOUT TO GET FIRED! Let's be clear here.... They 'resigned in lieu of termination' as it were.....

[ghengis86]

They submitted resignation letters on Jan. 20th per tradition and the Whote House accepted and said their services were no longer required. Basically fired, in the DC way.

[ghengis86]

Funny how the headline makes the angle like they resigned in protest or something else....

They were ABOUT TO GET FIRED! Let's be clear here.... They 'resigned in lieu of termination' as it were.....

Yes, more or less.

[phill4paul]

Don't they know they should wait to be fired so that they can get unemployment? Why stop suckling at the teat now?

[PatriotOne]

Dayum....I'm sure going to miss their human/child trafficking, organ trafficking, drug trafficking and a few other things. Sure makes my day knowing how absolutely scared these people are. Makes me glad they built the Donald some drones now.

Don't let the drones hit ya on your way out the door.

[presence]

Good.

lol


given assignments elsewhere in the foreign service

[phill4paul]

lol

Dayum. The beat goes on.

[Origanalist]

lol

Rearranging the swamp?

[Lindsey]

And replace them with...nobody.

This!

[angelatc]

The state department has sucked since at least 1973


bye

[UWDude]

Fake news alert:
1: so far, only 6 have resigned, and there are about 60 senior level positions on par with theirs.
2: they were asked to resign, aka fired. It wasn't a "walk out" or "protest", as it is portrayed.

[UWDude]

Oh yeah, she's on the ropes. Any minute now she'll be indicted... any minute...

https://i.imgur.com/DNsXXq9.jpg

I could have sworn you posted this same picture about the border wall too.