State Dept defends reorganization admits low morale

AP ^ | 18Nov17 | Matthew Lee

[qaz123]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is hitting back at the growing bipartisan criticism of Rex Tillerson's leadership and accusations he is presiding over a debilitating brain drain of the nation's diplomatic corps. At the same time, it allowed that a lack of communication with employees about Tillerson's intent to reorganize the department had contributed to low morale.

In a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Republican chairman, the department said Tillerson's reorganization plans aren't crippling the agency as reports have claimed. Top ranks aren't being intentionally gutted through attrition, mass retirements and buyouts, it said, and a planned 8 percent reduction of its nearly 75,000 employees had been mandated by the Office of Management and Budget and is proceeding under that order.

[octex]

I’ve read many of your extensive postings that provide details of the bad dealings from the Obama era.

These latest postings of yours should be sent to Jim Jordan in the Houses of Reps, as he is heavily pushing for a Clinton investigation regarding fraud, emails, perjury, Uranium One, bribes, the Clinton Foundation, etc.

Thanks for your research time/skills.

[Liz]

Contact Cong Jim Jordan-—he is heavily pushing for a Clinton investigation regarding fraud, emails, perjury, Uranium One, bribes, the Clinton Foundation, etc.

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[Liz]

Action needed ping

[huldah1776]

"They had tenure, couldn’t be fired and hated all things, Bush."

Why not make the new rules for firing VA employees applicable to ALL fed gov employees?

[qaz123]

Haven’t been paying attention to that. Can they actually be fired now?

[huldah1776]

yup.

https://www.infowars.com/youre-fired-trumps-va-terminates-500-suspends-200-for-misconduct/

[GOPJ]

... the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) disclosed a VOLAG contract to resettle tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) that entered the U.S. through Mexico under the Obama administration while the State Department withheld large portions of a one-year, $22.8 million deal to resettle refugees from Muslim countries.

If a citizen finds a lost minor they call the police and have the child returned to their parents... they don't 'resettle a child' into a stranger's home or a Chicago whore house or wherever.. The people 'resettling' children - rather than returning them to their parents - should be arrested.

[Little Ray]

During the Cold War, US State was the most heavily infiltrated part of the Federal Government.
Their current personnel and doctrine are a legacy of this.
The whole thing should go.

[golux]

US State was the most heavily infiltrated part of the Federal Government.

Quite sure that's incorrect - plenty of Navy infiltration, plenty of CIA infiltration... In fact the likes of Hansen, Ames did the famous damage... But if it were true (you are quoting someone who claims to "know," evidently... Who else would it be? Housing and Urban Development? NOAA? "The whole thing should go" speaks volumes about what you know about the awesome array of essential "Embassy" duties - essential to NATIONAL DEFENSE - dating back at least to King David and other enlightened conservative thinkers.