Posted on 06/12/2009 2:22:29 PM PDT by La Lydia
Walter Kendall Myers, the State Department analyst accused of spying for Havana for 30 years, made me lose my innocence soon after I started working at the department in late 2006. I learned because of him that...there is a substratum of officials whose personal ideology permits them to tolerate the unforgivable...
This epiphany came because of remarks Mr. Myers made to an audience at Johns Hopkins University...about our closest ally, the United Kingdom. Mr. Myers' comments were indiscreet, contemptible and may have even broken the law. They should by all rights have gotten Mr. Myers fired and earned him rebuke...Instead, I saw him feted and supported. All the department was able to do was give Mr. Myers a slap on the wrist, while many of his colleagues gave him a slap on the back...
Specifically, and most damning, here's what Mr. Myers said...about our strongest alliance: "I wish they would break it with us. Rather personally, I want to see the British more closely attached to Europe."
Here was a man who had taken an oath to further U.S. interests, wishing that a key ally broke away and sided with a European Union that at the time was explicitly selling itself as a counterweight to U.S. power...The context made it clear that Mr. Myers thought the Anglo-American relationship had served U.S. interests better than Britain's all along, and he railed against that...
Mr. Myers' comments greatly damaged U.S. foreign policy at the time...But think also of the damage Mr. Myers did teaching young minds all those years....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I am certain it will be said that he had many powerful friends.
The State Department is infested with two legged roaches, in my opinion. I am sure there are some decent people there, but going all the way back to the 1930’s, it has been populated by liberals.
IIRC Congress long ago made it near statutorily impossible to fire their ideological fellow travelers at State.
My guess is the state department has been infested with Reds since the early 1900’s.
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