[Vigilanteman]

You are both right, of course.

I only listed the State Department for the convenience of all those foreign embassies in Washington.

But it is in bad need of a clean out which should start with not allowing those currently in the job to do the new hires.

Disclosure: Years ago, I scored in the top 1% of their exam and was invited to DC for an interview. Because the biographical sketches of the interviewers was available in a binder for all to see, I went through it fairly completely. There were three things that stood out as common to all (ever single one had two of the three, many all three):

• Most had graduated from a tiny handful of universities in the northeast, including the Ivies.
  
• Most had worked in a news agency such as Reuters or CNN with international locations.
  
• Many had been in the Peace Corps.

  They were, of course, overwhelmingly from the left side of the political spectrum who wanted to hire people like them.

[FreedomPoster]

Besides the Leftism, which is bad enough, you’ve also got the “going native” aspect that is so common.

“What’s your country?”

“I’ve worked primarily in the EU, Italy, Croatia, Sweden.”

“NO! YOUR COUNTRY IS THE USA!”