Someone over on CTH must be an insider, as the poster has been writing about the abuses of our money and power that DOS people have engaged in for YEARS.
Keith Laumer and other sci-fi writers have published alien relations farces for decades - which turned out to be thinly disguised retellings of some of the absolute stupidity those authors experienced in the Foreign Service.
DOS has been screwing the US since at least the 1900s.