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.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They can get jobs with any Communist country....oh wait...
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
“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.
I am sure that George Soros is hiring.
.
Good move!
Cut the top-heavy payroll.
.
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.
.
A 50% cut would be a workable compromise.
.
Foreign hookers and pimps are deeply saddened.
Good riddance Swamp Creatures
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.
Not to mention leaks of national security information.
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?
Why limit it to the State Department?
How is the IRS doing????
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.
Spoils go to the victor.
Foggy Bottom has too much of a lefty tilt.
Well if it upsets the old grey nag, it can’t be a bad thing.
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.
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.
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!
post to gopbriefingroom dot com when up
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.