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U.S. Diplomat’s Resignation Signals Wider Exodus From State Department
FP ^ | 12/9/2017 | DAN DE LUCE, ROBBIE GRAMER

Posted on 12/10/2017 7:20:07 AM PST by Fhios

An award-winning U.S. diplomat who was seen as a rising star at the State Department has issued a scathing resignation letter, accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the Donald Trump administration of undercutting the State Department and damaging America’s influence in the world.

Elizabeth Shackelford, who most recently served as a political officer based in Nairobi for the U.S. mission to Somalia, wrote to Tillerson that she reluctantly had decided to quit because the administration had abandoned human rights as a priority and shown disdain for the State Department’s diplomatic work, according to her letter, obtained by Foreign Policy.

(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...


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To: NonValueAdded; dfwgator

A plane full of deportees was turned around from Somalia yesterday..... related?


61 posted on 12/10/2017 8:26:31 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: Paladin2

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62 posted on 12/10/2017 8:28:08 AM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Fhios

If only the DOJ and the FBI swamp would drain similarly.


63 posted on 12/10/2017 8:28:33 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Fhios
feh... bye
64 posted on 12/10/2017 8:31:11 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Chode
Hahaha. Winning!!! MAGA!!! Not enough of these "award-winning" DIPlomats could leave fast enough to make me happy. Get out, you bum. These pampered over-educated degenerates despise American greatness and are sniveling losers.
65 posted on 12/10/2017 8:40:35 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: txhurl

That actually turns out to be a crew problem on our part.


66 posted on 12/10/2017 8:41:00 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: Fhios

Wellllllll THANKS, creature of the black lagoon, for confirming that SECSTATE & TRUMP are doing what we wanted them to do. Now please get on down the road and shut your upper farting orifice. We’ve had the Marxists in the State Dept holding sway farrrrr tooooo long as it is.


67 posted on 12/10/2017 8:47:34 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: Fhios

Remove the UN World Government Dead Weight and move forward


68 posted on 12/10/2017 8:59:32 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: txhurl

She can go live in Minneapolis/St Paul, where the largest group of Somalis in the USA reside. That might make her feel better.


69 posted on 12/10/2017 9:01:35 AM PST by ridesthemiles (uen)
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To: NonValueAdded

Good. Thanks.


70 posted on 12/10/2017 9:13:49 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: hal ogen

100%


71 posted on 12/10/2017 9:17:06 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Fhios

And Shackleford’s Nairobi-based work on human rights problems in Somalia have accomplished what, exactly? She’ll be a real loss to the taxpayers.


72 posted on 12/10/2017 9:22:55 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Fhios

I have one question for all these lifers at the State Department: Just what are all those great diplomatic victories of State Department diplomacy in the last fifty years?

Peace, anywhere, in the Middle East?

Peace, on the Korean peninsula?

Peace in Africa?

Real true end to Pakistan-India conflict?

End of Middle-East Sunni-Shia proxy wars.

End of Russian bullying in Europe?

End of China’s bullying in Asia?

End of tribal conflicts in Africa?

End of Cuban communist meddling in Central and South America?

Just what have the State Department’s fantastic diplomacy made such victories with?


73 posted on 12/10/2017 9:27:49 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Ancesthntr

Track, wall, see ya!!


74 posted on 12/10/2017 9:28:53 AM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: Wuli

Exactly. Based on their criteria, we need an Ambassador to Chicago.


75 posted on 12/10/2017 9:30:58 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: Fhios

Buh bye!


76 posted on 12/10/2017 9:33:43 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Fhios

The more that leave - THE BIGGER THE WIN.


77 posted on 12/10/2017 9:34:42 AM PST by GOPJ (Katie Couric - please do a 'special' on NBC women who 'put out' to move up the corporate ladder...)
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To: Fhios

yeah, the leftist/fake stream media like uber-leftist propaganda site “Foreign Policy” have been whining about the “destruction” of the State Department for weeks now. We here at FR call it “winning” ...


78 posted on 12/10/2017 9:41:25 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Fhios

Damaging Obama’s influence in the world the clean up has started gets better every day.


79 posted on 12/10/2017 11:00:29 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: jonascord

<>She said she was “shocked” when Tillerson appeared to cast doubt on the importance of human rights in remarks to department employees on May 3.<>

I counted nine “human rights” in the column, as if that is the purpose of the State Department.

Nowhere did I find “American interests” or anything similar.


80 posted on 12/10/2017 3:27:09 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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