Posted on 01/26/2017 8:44:26 AM PST by tcrlaf
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.
Tillerson was actually inside the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom on Wednesday, taking meetings and getting the lay of the land. I reported Wednesday morning that the Trump team was narrowing its search for his No. 2, and that it was looking to replace the State Department’s long-serving undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy.
Kennedy, who has been in that job for nine years, was actively involved in the transition and was angling to keep that job under Tillerson, three State Department officials told me.
Then suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officials confirmed. Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, followed him out the door. All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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Sounds more like a much-needed house-cleaning, than the hysterics the Post is trying to make it into. These are the same "Senior Management" wonks that lost $6 Billion taxpayer dollars "Somehow". They should be perp-walked.
...and the level of the swamp drops a little lower...
If this “senior management team” worked for Hillary an Kerry then the USA would be safer if all of them retired.
Are we supposed to consider this to be a bad thing?
Yes!
Outstanding!
This is a good thing.
They were all fellow travelers bent on subverting American sovereignty.
If they try to leave the country, hold their passports.
SOMEONE has to know where $6Billion was spent.
Praise the Lord. The corrupt Hillary/Obama sewer-swamp is draining itself.
How does Rex’ job become more difficult? The rats are jumping ship, and that is a bad thing?
WINNING!
So the draining of the swamp begins! Yee Haw!
Maybe they finally finished shredding & destroying all incriminating records.
This is a bad thing?
Applause.
This is the BEST thing that could have happened for this country! The State Department has been infested for so long with a bunch of do-nothing pompous liberals who only see to hamstring this country it isn’t pitiful.
There is a decidedly winning side of Trump for my taste. These bastards should have been thrown out long ago. WAPO, NYT et al be damned. They don’t matter any more.
‘Rats leaving = Winning!
No it didn't; it just got considerably easier.
Patrick Kennedy of the Kennedy clan? Anyone leaving obamas gov it a good thing IMO.
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