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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.

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To: Fhios

Good! Clear out that nest of vipers.


41 posted on 12/10/2017 7:40:37 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: umgud
"The poor woman is butt-hurt."

A concise analysis of her Opus.

42 posted on 12/10/2017 7:40:48 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Fhios

Drip Drip Drip ... the swamp drains.


43 posted on 12/10/2017 7:41:04 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: Fhios

Drain the swamp!! Best thing in years for USA to clean out the Snake Department swamp ( and all of the obama type enemy agents and moles in washDC). Drain drain drain the swamp!


44 posted on 12/10/2017 7:42:22 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: PGR88

She is a total libtard. I looked over her LinkedIn page — this is the flaming left dreck she is featuring there:

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-11-16-op-ed-a-cosmopolitan-riot-virginias-2017-election/

[in my experience, few people on LinkedIn ever link to partisan political articles, since the purpose of the site is “professional” networking, but ofc for libtards everything must be politics all the time....]


45 posted on 12/10/2017 7:42:37 AM PST by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: Fhios

Why are diplomats given awards? This bitch complains that Trump and Tillerson are “undermining” the State Department. Is the State Department a separate government?


46 posted on 12/10/2017 7:43:37 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Bayan

True, and no President has ever successfully cleaned out that mess.


47 posted on 12/10/2017 7:43:43 AM PST by alarm rider (What's the frequency Kenneth?)
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To: outofsalt

there’s a little x you click on that advertisement and it’s gone. I’m not a member either and don’t plan on it.


48 posted on 12/10/2017 7:44:11 AM PST by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: Fhios
After a solid century of arrogant, incestuous Ivy League f#ckups, somehow, I can't get too upset about this swamp draining.

These inbred, self-aggrandizing tampons have left a trail of blood soaked policy disasters, world wide, dating back to 1900, and have never had to account for their dim little screw ups.

To read this Obama recruited, smug c#nt's butt hurt resignation reinforces my opinion that she should have been hung for treason and subversion, long since.

We can't drive these self-serving, anti-American careerists into the sea fast enough.

49 posted on 12/10/2017 7:46:06 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Texas Fossil

‘There goes the electrification of Africa.’ - moonbats


50 posted on 12/10/2017 7:46:57 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: txhurl

LOL! Yea,Award winning! The Swamp is slowly getting draining! Go Trump!


51 posted on 12/10/2017 7:53:39 AM PST by MGunny
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To: Bayan

When the DC voting record ratio moves the needle from 92% dem to at least 50/50 to reflect more along the lines of our population.......then we can start to feel a tiny bit satisfied with all this swamp draining.

Until then.......I am loving hearing all the histrionics coming from these rotten-to-the-core people


52 posted on 12/10/2017 7:59:13 AM PST by Be Careful
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To: MGunny

Because, you see, only *black* people could talk Africans into stopping burning and blowing $hit up long enough to electrify the deserts and jungles.


53 posted on 12/10/2017 8:00:58 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: Fhios
Because award winning rising star diplomats always get stationed in the middle of Africa.

Precisely what I was about to post.
54 posted on 12/10/2017 8:01:08 AM PST by golux
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To: Cowboy Bob
An award-winning U.S. diplomat

Diplomat of the Month, May, 2013

I think it makes some difference who gave the award:

The Harvey Weinstein / Anthony Weiner Award for Thwarting Prudery might not be the best career enhancer these days, for example.

55 posted on 12/10/2017 8:09:53 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Fhios
From twitter:


56 posted on 12/10/2017 8:18:06 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Fhios
Elizabeth Shackelford, who most recently served as a political officer based in Nairobi for the U.S. mission to Somalia,

Now THERE'S a resume builder ...

57 posted on 12/10/2017 8:18:48 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: Fhios

“...shown disdain for the State Department’s diplomatic work...”

It’s about time that they got the disdain they have richly deserved for decades.


58 posted on 12/10/2017 8:20:13 AM PST by euram
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To: Fhios

We could use a lot fewer “diplomats” in the world.


59 posted on 12/10/2017 8:21:52 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Fhios

Don’t let the screen door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.

And did she tout all the progress she facilitated in the hellhole also known as Somalia?


60 posted on 12/10/2017 8:23:35 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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