LOL! As if the State Department is a credible source of economic history.
Powell never did clean out that rat's nest of left-wing globo-weenies, did he?
Since Powell himself is a weenie, I'm not surprised he left others in place. Don't you wish a change in government was really a change in government? When the CIA is a war with the president you know how impossible it must be to actually get anything done from the WH.