[fporretto]

The State Department was like this during the Reagan years as well. They were often quite overt about obstructing or undermining Reagan's policy directions, using their institutional assets and bureaucratic inertia to prevent the president from having his way. There are a number of revealing anecdotes about it in Armington and Ellis's book More.

Inasmuch as the conduct of foreign policy is one of the few legitimate functions of the federal government, it's extraordinarily distressing that the Cabinet department tasked with it should be so determined to thwart the White House and propitiate the enemies of the United States.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Vigilanteman]

How the State Department selects these geniuses.