Posted on 04/11/2018 5:56:40 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she recently urged Mike Pompeo, President Trump's pick to lead the State Department, to retain senior career officials to handle global crises should he be confirmed.
Clinton, who served as secretary of State from 2009-2013 under former President Obama, said during an event in Michigan that she warned Pompeo against a "purge" of experienced administration officials when he called her recently.
"I told him that I thought he should take a hard look at retaining career diplomats who could advise him. Because you never know what might happen. You never know where the next hot spot or crisis will happen," Clinton said.
Clinton said she was "deeply concerned" over the mass exodus of "some of the most qualified foreign service officers" over the past year and a half under recently ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Trump nominated Pompeo, the current director of the CIA, to lead the State Department following a reshuffling of senior advisers and Cabinet officials starting last month.
Should he be confirmed to his new post by the Senate, Pompeo would enter a State Department rocked by a departmentwide restructuring proposal and push by Tillerson for steep budget cuts.
Tillerson, who saw the department's entire senior administrative team resign when Trump took office, led the State Department for a little over a year.
Clinton said Wednesday she was "happy" to speak with Pompeo, who had once grilled her before a House committee hearing over the 2012 Benghazi attacks.
The Senate will begin confirmation hearings for Pompeo on Thursday.
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I think it’s interesting Mike Pompeo asked her for advice!
classy guy. Pence was extremely cordial with Biden.
Get rid of them all.
“Clinton Advises Pompeo To Stop ‘Purge’ At State Dept.”
Or else.
Clinton said Wednesday she was “happy” to speak with Pompeo, who had once grilled her before a House committee hearing over the 2012 Benghazi attacks.
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Was he asking her how to start a “foundation” and collects hundreds of millions of dollars?
Yes, please please please keep my protectors in place.
Since when did felony clinton start caring about firing previous regime left-overs?
FOAD
Mike is laying it on pretty thick calling Hillary “for advice.”
As he has been at CIA he knows enough to have really snickered prior to placing the call.
Overjoyed Hillary calls the media wetting her depends the moment the call is ended.
For years now, the State Dept has not been "handling" anything. They have forgotten they work for the American people. Many of them have "gone native" in the countries they are assigned, being more sympathetic to the host country than they are to the United States.
What is worse is that for decades the DOS has been a den of outright Communists. This is not an exaggeration, but has been verified through past cases.
Moreover, their more recent problem is they have gone Globalist.
Smart! All those she recommends to keep they can now be identified and fired.
Did she suggest that he set up a fake e-mail account and put some servers in his dog’s house?
Set up a money laundering foundation?
Hire some Paki used car sales/IT family?
Pompaeo is a stooge for hillary. Why is Trump turning to shit?
Thanks to Jeff Sessions, this treasonous murdering harpy is roaming free & threatening Trump’s cabinet members.
What a country, eh?
Hope he asked for names so they get fired first.
I totally trust Mike Pompaeo.
Happy to see him cleaning out the State Department.
Pompeo now knows for sure who to get rid of.
Drain the Swamp! ASAP
Did you omit the sarc tag or are you hitting the sauce?
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