[Elkiejg]

Excuse me - but aren't the actions of both Haass and Leverett acts of treason?? They are 'consorting with the enemy' - to say nothing of actively working against the President of the United States.

Once again the State Dept. shows they are enemies of America. Is anyone in the White House paying attention to this disgraceful waste of our money. ABOLISH THE STATE DEPT - NOW.

[ImpotentRage]

Reading articles like this makes me angry when I think how people screamed about what Newt Gingrich said. The State Department is more of a not-so-underground, anti-American bureaocracy than anything else.

[tictoc]

ABOLISH THE STATE DEPT - NOW

We'll still need consular services and the general machinery of keeping open lines of communication with other nations. But as far as I'm concerned, all the policy functions should be transferred to the National Security Advisor or to the Pentagon.

[gaspar]

There are real problems with Leverett, who came from the CIA to the NSC despite being part and parcel of that Agency's failed intelligence gathering effort in the Middle East.

[lurky]

ABOLISH THE STATE DEPT - NOW.

This is clearly not feasible or wise, and playing the treason game is also a dangerous one, but I'm hella glad there's some dust being kicked up over this. Next up: Saudi Arabia and Egypt, me hopes. Let the hypocrisy wilt under the eye of the press.

[piasa]

Flynt Leverett, a former CIA analyst and former National Security Council adviser in the Bush administration, was among those celebrating this week, and praised Fingar and his colleagues [for their 2007 NIE that Iran stopped their nuke program in 2003]. "We seem to have lucked out and have individuals who resist back-channel politics and tell it how it is," he said. "That is what the CIA and other agencies are supposed to do." 1 posted on 12/08/2007 1:31:11 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

One month after Iran was named an "axis of evil" nation, Haass went to the Middle East and told Israeli officials that they needed to "engage" the mullahs. And earlier this year [2003], Haass tried to undermine the president's clear determination to not give in to North Korean demands for one-on-one talks. This January, he sent out a cable blasting the president's approach in what an administration official labeled a "broadside."
If Haass is effectively restricted from arranging official sit-downs with Iran, he may go through back-channels to achieve essentially the same result. Earlier this month, Haass protege Flynt Leverett had a "chat" with a former head of Iran's military at a political conference in Athens...
...The Iranian with whom Leverett had his "informal" conversation is himself not a government official, though he still is very much a power broker, with proteges of his dotting the top echelons of the Iranian government. It is most likely that Iran saw Leverett in a similar light. Leverett was not just a recent retiree; he is extremely close—personally and professionally—to Haass. ...
It is not clear if Leverett's supposedly spontaneous meeting was pre-cleared by Haass or anyone else at State, but it is clear he exercised the same questionable judgment used by other Foggy Bottom officials. The man Leverett so happily met with was Mohsen Rezai, the former head Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Rezai is an active supporter of Hezbollah, which has killed more Americans than any other terrorist outfit besides al-Qaeda. Rezai has also long been suspected of ties to a deadly attack in Lebanon in 1983 that killed 238 U.S. troops. -----STATE DEPARTMENT'S FAVORITE MULLAHS (Anti-America best friends - State Dept.) Townhall ^ | 6/2/03 | Joel Mowbray

[G8 Diplomat]

ABOLISH THE STATE DEPT - NOW.

Or we could use Duncan Hunter's idea and replace them all with vets.