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The State Department’s entire Senior Management Team just Resigned
Wash Post ^ | 1-26-2017 | Josh Rogan

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; state; trump; winning; yourefired
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To: tcrlaf

Oh no, what’ll we ever do without them, lol?


21 posted on 01/26/2017 8:49:04 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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22 posted on 01/26/2017 8:49:05 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Mr. K
SOMEONE has to know where $6 Billion was spent.

Before you guys leave the premises, there are a few questions the new Secretary of State has for you.
23 posted on 01/26/2017 8:49:24 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: tcrlaf

And maybe the security leak is going with them?


24 posted on 01/26/2017 8:49:29 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: tcrlaf

Reagan had to fire all the striking flight controllers.

For Trump, these corrupt Washington establishment figures and just leaving.

Wonderful.


25 posted on 01/26/2017 8:49:41 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: tcrlaf

WINNING!!!!!!!


26 posted on 01/26/2017 8:49:43 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of :-)Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: tcrlaf

Addition by subtraction.


27 posted on 01/26/2017 8:49:43 AM PST by AU72
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To: tcrlaf

Addition by subtraction.


28 posted on 01/26/2017 8:50:08 AM PST by AU72
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To: All; tcrlaf

These are likely the people who carried out Obama’s refugee and immigration policy along with relocating them all around the country without notifying state Governor’s who these people were and where they came from.

They ought to be brought before a congressional committee and questioned about this immigration and relocation policy. Seems like federal and state laws were broken.


29 posted on 01/26/2017 8:50:11 AM PST by orinoco (Orinoco)
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To: tcrlaf

it=is


30 posted on 01/26/2017 8:50:14 AM PST by ColdOne (( I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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To: tcrlaf

This is a good thing. They would have undermined the new Secretary of State and President Trump whenever possible.


31 posted on 01/26/2017 8:50:28 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: tcrlaf

WaPo is an idiot group of insane ‘things’...

This is a bad thing??? How so??? It just made Tillerson’s job and America a better thing...

We don’t want the ‘Clinton, Kerry, obama’ era in our government...we want people who know how to do and when to do and when not to do...something idiots don’t know anything about...

WOOHOO Go America Go!!!


32 posted on 01/26/2017 8:50:50 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: tcrlaf
Entire Senior Management Team? 4 people?

Captain Hyperbole's beeber is a gazillion times stuned!

33 posted on 01/26/2017 8:50:53 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: tcrlaf

A good start....Kennedy was Clinton’s enabler. Neither had the interests of the US as their primary goal


34 posted on 01/26/2017 8:50:54 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: tcrlaf

A good start....Kennedy was Clinton’s enabler. Neither had the interests of the US as their primary goal


35 posted on 01/26/2017 8:50:55 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: tcrlaf

It is a good start! The entire State Department should be fired and let T-Rex hire his selections. Someone has to get rid of all of the communists which Joe McCarthy told us were there.


36 posted on 01/26/2017 8:51:02 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: Please.....GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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To: tcrlaf

My bet is they’re getting out one step ahead of the posse. Wonder if anyone plans on auditing Foggy Bottom’s books....


37 posted on 01/26/2017 8:51:10 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: tcrlaf

Reagan had to fire all the striking flight controllers.

For Trump, these corrupt Washington establishment figures are just leaving.

Wonderful.


38 posted on 01/26/2017 8:51:12 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: tcrlaf

Getting rid of these snakes including Kennedy is just draining the swamp. Its a must do.


39 posted on 01/26/2017 8:51:25 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: tcrlaf

The swamp is draining itself. Awesome.


40 posted on 01/26/2017 8:51:26 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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