Demonstrating just how ideologically alligned with the Obama administration was the entire US State Department, moments ago the WaPo reported that "the entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era."
The mass resignation took place as Rex Tillerson was inside the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom on Wednesday, taking meetings and getting the lay of the land.
According to WaPo's Josh Rogin who suddenly has no more senior level sources left at State:
"I reported Wednesday morning that the Trump team was narrowing its search for his No. 2, and that it was looking to replace the State Department’s long-serving undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy, who has been in that job for nine years, was actively involved in the transition and was angling to keep that job under Tillerson, three State Department officials told me."
Then suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officials confirmed. 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, followed him out the door. All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
Additionally, "Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr retired Jan. 20, and the director of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, Lydia Muniz, departed the same day. That amounts to a near-complete housecleaning of all the senior officials that deal with managing the State Department, its overseas posts and its people."
“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. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”
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36 comments:
Bunch of losers! Instead of working to make things better they just quit?! Typical liberals. Dont get their way and throw a tantrum and protest and quit. They are literally walking away from their responsibility to America! Not Trump. Who needs them any way. If the chips were down I wouldnt want them in my corner anyway. Turn tail and run losers!!!!
"Housecleaning" is the appropriate word.
Patrick Kennedy was a political hack. Check out the videos of him testifying before Congress. Dude got roasted by Chaffetz repeatedly.
And that is what a call a good start to draining the swamp. Good riddance.
Guess they could read the writing on the wall
Losers is an understatement
Can't wait for the crybaby actors to go
although they are all talk and don't live in reality anyhow.
Just goes to show you they were in it for themselves and nothing else, since they were responsible for overseas posts and people, leaving them vulnerable.
When you know you're going to be fired, you quit first to save face. They knew they were headed for the guillotine, so they bolted.
It just seems to get better and better. Can't wait to sleep tonight and find out what good stuff happens tomorrow. Sweet dreams of AMERICA THE GREAT!
They quit. No unemployment for them!!!
Great news. Good riddance.
First 1:57 - Really? Your first thought is that they would file for unemployment? If any of them want to work, they can make far more money consulting than they would off of unemployment. Heck, they'll make far more money than they did working at State.
Joe- you should put a poll up for who is going to boycott the Oscars. I know Im not watching 1 second of it! I hope the ratings fall off the charts! Liberal Actors live in a pretend world and stir up more crap than anyone else!!
There are even more career people that need to go.
The State Dept. is a big part of the swamp.
Good riddance many of the departments need to be cleaned out, if their scared of what might be found then their was something to it. More departments need to be vacated their is always the likelihood that better people can fill the positions and may be background checks on the new should follow.
Did they quit or just get out before Tillerson can fire them or perhaps prosecute them for all the crap they did under hillary?
The plug at the bottom of the swamp has been pulled - let the draining begin!
Don't let the door hit you in the a$s on the way out!!!
This is all a bit misleading. Traditionally people in these positions submit resignation letters upon a change in administration. Usually, they are asked to stay on until successors are confirmed. In this case, the White House sent letters today accepting their resignations. They are not just walking away. Essentially they were asked to leave.
Happy trails to you, until we meet again...
Hard to tell how much better the State Department will be with fresh minds focused on Trumps vision. Just confirmation of how corrupt this department has been for all these years.
Drain the swamp!!!!!!!
2:38 you are wrong some of these men and women have served this country for over 20 years. That is probably a lot more than what people have done posting here. This is indeed a sad day for American and begs the question, What couldn't the incoming administration make an effort to try and work with these people. Why is the criticism always on the liberals?
Good Riddance. This department has been corrupt for long time. If they don't want to jump on the Trump Train, it's better to get out. Next, please!
Doubt they need unemployment or to do consulting work. If the learned anything from the loser candidate, they have stole enough to last them a life time.
3:20 because weak minds always need to point the finger
Don't let the door hit you in the ...
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Draining the swamp!Gotta love it.
I'll take one of those great paying jobs.
2:09...a consultant is only as good as his connections. Their "connections" are now gone or totally ineffectual.
It's a whole new ballgame for the revolving door of corruption in government.
The same reason all those millions are no longer being given to the clinton foundation.
Get rid of all the "policy analysts", micro-aggression experts, and whoever runs the "we're offended by eveything" department.
3:20
Have served the country for 20 years?
Give me a break! Stop the sanctimony!
These people should have been thrown out years ago!
3:20 really? If they have been there for 20 years then they are way over due to leave. And, I absolutely believed they were asked to leave.
Patrick Kennedy wanted to stay?? I would not let him walk my dog!!
3:20, Sad because a few may have been good,yes.But look at the results and fruits of their labor for twenty years.Glad they're gone!
You have it backwards.The new administration is not supposed to "work with them",they are supposed to work FOR the administration.
The criticism is always on the progressive/liberals because they
ARE the problem!
Most can begin to collect their pensions; none will be clipping supermarket coupons. Those seeking 'work' will end up on a Soros payroll of one sort or another.
They were in the positions they're leaving because they toed the Obama, Hillary and Kerry line. Period.
I hope Hillary's lackeys didn't get hit by the door, on their way out.
They weren't anything but Hillary's fund raisers anyway.
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