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Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves
nytimes.com ^ | 11/24/17 | Gardiner Harris

Posted on 11/25/2017 12:43:36 PM PST by cotton1706

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To: cotton1706

They can get jobs with any Communist country....oh wait...


41 posted on 11/25/2017 2:16:26 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King!)
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To: cotton1706

so far the Snake Department’s anti-American and pro=Nazi policies have yet to be thrown out with the swamp draining

but at least there’s hope. Drain the Damned Swamp, DJT.. Drain it dry!

thanks


42 posted on 11/25/2017 2:29:26 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: vette6387

“The United States is at the center of every crisis around the world, . . .”

A major problem that Tillerson and Trump are hopefully addressing. Time to heed the warnings of our founding fathers:

George Washington- “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”

Thomas Jefferson- “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none.”

The founding fathers knew political alliances with foreign nations would drag the US into foreign wars and cost the nation dearly in blood and money. As the Swiss have proven for centuries, neutrality, a strong currency, and a strong defense are the best policy in dealing with the rest of the world. Our constant meddling in the affairs of other nation during the 20th and 21st centuries has bankrupted the federal government, resulted in the death and maiming of hundreds of thousands of citizens, and earned us the hatred of people around the globe.

Decades of diplomacy and military adventures in the Middle East have definitely not made the homeland safer. If anything they have brought terrorism to the homeland and the loss of freedom at the hands of an increasingly oppressive and militaristic central government.


43 posted on 11/25/2017 2:31:02 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: cotton1706

I am sure that George Soros is hiring.


44 posted on 11/25/2017 2:34:06 PM PST by Trumpnado2016 (Hillary says that Jeff Sessions is the best AG that money can buy.)
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To: cotton1706

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Good move!

Cut the top-heavy payroll.
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45 posted on 11/25/2017 2:34:11 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: cotton1706
...the one person who seemed least likely to be a target was the chief of security, Bill A. Miller.

All depends. Was this guy chief of security during the period when Hitlery was routinely breaking security rules & laws? How about afterwards, when FOI inquiries and requests for info regarding security breaches were made outside the agency?

If so, he absolutely sucked at his job. If there during that time, he potentially broke some laws if he knew what was going on during Hitlery's reign and did nothing about it (if he didn't know, he should have in that position if he was any good) and should have been gone a long time ago.

Or, maybe he's a recent replacement. Little bit of the article posted doesn't say, and I'm not clicking on any NYT link to see the rest.

46 posted on 11/25/2017 2:34:14 PM PST by MCH
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To: ASA Vet

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A 50% cut would be a workable compromise.
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47 posted on 11/25/2017 2:35:24 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: cotton1706

Foreign hookers and pimps are deeply saddened.


48 posted on 11/25/2017 2:37:17 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....Dirty Bob Mueller)
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To: cotton1706

Good riddance Swamp Creatures


49 posted on 11/25/2017 2:39:55 PM PST by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: cotton1706
Among those fired or sidelined were most of the top African-American and Latino diplomats, as well as many women, difficult losses in a department that has long struggled with diversity.

Hard to tell which are the villains in this story.
I tend to believe that some groups have been increasing over the decades and never shrink. "Struggling with diversity" is euphemism for bureaucratic welfare and goldbricking?

Conspicuous by its absence: Annual growth of personnel over the last, say, 10 years? years of incompetence, ineptitude, corruption and lost or 'wasted' hundreds of $millions... both in taxpayer dollars and weapons.

50 posted on 11/25/2017 2:42:42 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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(It sounds like Mr. Tillerson is doing a good job of cleaning out wannabe New York Times type brilliant intellectuals.)

Not to mention leaks of national security information.

51 posted on 11/25/2017 2:44:35 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: cotton1706

The NYT’s logic is upside down. Since the GOP “pilloried” Hillary for security lapses, doesn’t it just make sense that he’d force the security chief out?


52 posted on 11/25/2017 2:45:58 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Tallguy
Being ‘senior’ doesn’t mean a whole lot in a dysfunctional department.

Why limit it to the State Department?
How is the IRS doing????

53 posted on 11/25/2017 2:49:20 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: samtheman
At your service: Image and video hosting by TinyPic I know a retired Statie, a friend from way back. But he is a Clinton die-hard liberal, so no longer. Fire them all and start over. They have been anchors for over sixty years.
54 posted on 11/25/2017 2:53:59 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: SubMareener

Spoils go to the victor.

Foggy Bottom has too much of a lefty tilt.


55 posted on 11/25/2017 2:58:53 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: cotton1706

Well if it upsets the old grey nag, it can’t be a bad thing.


56 posted on 11/25/2017 3:01:56 PM PST by rawcatslyentist
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To: cotton1706

Diplomats? There must have been a great watering down of qualifications for titles. The average person would assume that title followed accomplishments, not preceded them.


57 posted on 11/25/2017 3:38:55 PM PST by odawg
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To: cotton1706

The most important thing is to get rid of the Bush-ites, Clinton-ites and Obama-ites. Any hold overs are dangerous to have around.


58 posted on 11/25/2017 3:49:12 PM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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To: cotton1706
Many years ago while working in the central govt in Jamaica one of my senior co-workers was commenting on the meeting we were scheduled to be in.

They commented that its just pure political posturing for the new govt that was voted in and that rarely anything will change, she pointed out that the real power structure lies with the senior managers & directors that has been in power over many govts as they actually are the real govt that the public never sees.

They also said that there were a few instances where the prime minister or his deputy went before a crowd of thousands with the media in attendance and they speech that they did totally took them by surprise! They never bothered to proof read the speech that was handed to them by the speech writer and thus in front of the country they announced a new or changed govt policy that the writer handed to them!

59 posted on 11/25/2017 3:57:40 PM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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To: cotton1706

post to gopbriefingroom dot com when up


60 posted on 11/25/2017 4:20:25 PM PST by truth_seeker
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