Posted on 11/25/2017 12:43:36 PM PST by cotton1706
Of all the State Department employees who might have been vulnerable in the staff reductions that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has initiated as he reshapes the department, the one person who seemed least likely to be a target was the chief of security, Bill A. Miller.
Republicans pilloried Hillary Clinton for what they claimed was her inadequate attention to security as secretary of state in the months before the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Congress even passed legislation mandating that the department’s top security official have unrestricted access to the secretary of state.
But in his first nine months in office, Mr. Tillerson turned down repeated and sometimes urgent requests from the department’s security staff to brief him, according to several former top officials in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Finally, Mr. Miller, the acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security, was forced to cite the law’s requirement that he be allowed to speak to Mr. Tillerson.
Mr. Miller got just five minutes with the secretary of state, the former officials said. Afterward, Mr. Miller, a career Foreign Service officer, was pushed out, joining a parade of dismissals and early retirements that has decimated the State Department’s senior ranks. Mr. Miller declined to comment.
The departures mark a new stage in the broken and increasingly contentious relationship between Mr. Tillerson and much of his department’s work force. By last spring, interviews at the time suggested, the guarded optimism that greeted his arrival had given way to concern among diplomats about his aloofness and lack of communication. By the summer, the secretary’s focus on efficiency and reorganization over policy provoked off-the-record anger.
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I want these people alarmed. They should be shaking with fear at the anger we normals feel against their Ivy League Liberal Democrat socialist globalist attitude and policies they tried to enact.
These people are what is wrong with America. The State Department is almost entirely filled with left-wing Democrat kooks. Fire them all. Clean house, get rational and sane people into those positions.
Just in time for Christmas!
Well 10% is a good start.
Still not tired of wining! :-)
Delightful Christmas gift! Bye bye. 31% cuts!! I love it.
Cannot be fast enough.
Incidentally, disabling Javascript lets me read most ‘limited’ articles.
They have no transferable skills for private sector work....except maybe McDonalds. McDiplomats manning the fryers.
There. I fixed it.
It used to be that there were always end of year layoff stories in the news, but these were always about the private sector, not the ruling class. Merry Christmas, former State Department employees!
“..has decimated the State Department’s senior ranks.”
Those brilliant intellectuals at the New York Times seem to find everything wrong with a Republican administration but only angels and everything good in a Progressive one.
(It sounds like Mr. Tillerson is doing a good job of cleaning out wannabe New York Times type brilliant intellectuals.)
IMHO
Sound the alarm?
Ring the Liberty Bells.
“Afterward, Mr. Miller, a career Foreign Service officer, was pushed out, joining a parade of dismissals and early retirements that has decimated the State Department’s senior ranks.”
Being ‘senior’ doesn’t mean a whole lot in a dysfunctional department.
Isn’t it!
The department has needed a good sanitation effort for decades.
This is one of the not so well known benefits of Trump’s tenure in the White House.
Trump himself is leaving a lot of government positions open these days.
Even Melania cut back the FLOTUS staff.
These folks know the value of money.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Oh, the huge manatee of government employees being laid off!!
And after the grand job they did helping North Korea go nuclear, making Libya a failed state that now has a slave market, destabilizing Yemen [Obama’s “model”, remember?] so badly that it’s now bordering on becoming the worst humanitarian crisis, sending pallets of currency to terrorist nation Iran in unmarked planes then hiding and lying about it, disrespecting our ally Israel signaling her enemies to increase aggression, etc.
Yes, fire all of these leftist America haters. They are not useless; they America’s enemies.
““The United States is at the center of every crisis around the world, and you simply cannot be effective if you don’t have assistant secretaries and ambassadors in place,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a retired career diplomat who was an under secretary of state for President George W. Bush. “It shows a disdain for diplomacy.””
It shows disdain for diplomacy, or more correctly disdain for Marxists posing as “diplomats!”
Drain Foggy Bottom.
McDonalds wouldn’t want such a bunch of lazy time-serving layabouts....
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