[Terry Mross]

Read the article. It will be posted on some kind of TV channel and it’s against the law to retaliate against them.

[gogeo]

I suspect it’s a policy, not a law.

[Thud]

AFAIK, not against the law. Against State Department policy.

[nopardons]

By their immediate boss, NOT by whomever is president! Ergo...PRESIDENT TRUMP can and must fired the whole damned department !

[ClayinVA]

More like against policy and tradition. This will probably not continue for long.

[DoughtyOne]

Our diplomats serve at the pleasure of our government.

They advance the policies of our nation, and right now Trump sets that diplomatic agenda.

If they can’t climb on board that agenda, they need to go.

Nobody can explain to me in simple terms why a diplomat should be able to champion a policy against the best interests of this nation.

Whether this is such a case or not, there has to be a way to exit a person filling that description. And if there is removal for that, then they are open to being removed for other causes.

This objection is not to your simply relating what you read. I appreciate the mention. I reject that premise.

I’m sure a lot of Leftists think along those lines. I sure don’t join them in that.

[MortMan]

The U.S. State Department expressly forbids reprisals for those who use the channel to express views that are contrary to stated U.S. policy.

Not against the law - against DOS policy.