Posted on 02/17/2017 4:48:07 AM PST by tcrlaf
While Rex Tillerson is on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State, his aides laid off staff at the State Department on Thursday.
Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices, were told today that their services were no longer needed.
These staffers in particular are often the conduit between the secretarys office to the country bureaus, where the regional expertise is centered. Inside the State Department, some officials fear that this is a politically-minded purge that cuts out much-needed expertise from the policy-making, rather than simply reorganizing the bureaucracy.
There are clear signals being sent that many key foreign policy portfolios will be controlled directly by the White House, rather than through the professional diplomats. Not a single State Department official was included in the White House meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner - who has no regional expertise or diplomatic experience - had a greater role in the meeting than the Senate-confirmed secretary of State.
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Reactivate the DEW sites and send them there. All outside communications to be monitored and recorded. Any variation will be seen as a breach of security.
I can’t figure out Bush at all....at times, I think he is just “nice” and naïve...other times, complicit in the global cabal....
Three IT certifications, two degrees, 10 year military vet, 13 year government employee
Office Furniture!
A play on the Term used in;
SOYLENT GREEN.
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Jared Kushner is a leftie.
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Great idea.
Sometimes my sarcasm does not display well in a post ;)
LS, your new book arrived on my doorstep today.
CONGRATULATIONS! You must be elated about it.
I will read it over the next few days, but did (of course) turn to the Index for Free Republic mentions — enough to see that certain Freepers are featured throughout.
I was absolutely certain (well, 95%) that Trump would win. This was based on three factors:
1. Your messages on FR
2. My own state-by-state poll-watching, which I consider is akin to watching stock charts.
3. The absolute conviction of a great economist/business analyst named Bob Bronson whom I have known (via Internet) for about 20 years. Bob’s analysis was similar to a few others who dispassionately analyzed factors such as incumbency etc. over the entire history of elections. But I had great faith, based on Bob’s analysis, that if Trump lost it would be an extreme anomaly.
Personal anecdote: I spoke up at a business lunch on November 4th, when everyone was talking about how Trump had lost it . . . and announced he was definitely going to win, and handily.
Heheh.
Anyway, again, CONGRATULATIONS!
Brilliant. Creative. Let’s roll.
We still need a REAL news service that reports the truth rather than propaganda. FOX was supposed to be that but turned into a huge disappointment.
As long as we believe that, there is no hope of stopping the New World Order.
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