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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Oh no, what’ll we ever do without them, lol?
And maybe the security leak is going with them?
Reagan had to fire all the striking flight controllers.
For Trump, these corrupt Washington establishment figures and just leaving.
Wonderful.
WINNING!!!!!!!
Addition by subtraction.
Addition by subtraction.
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.
it=is
This is a good thing. They would have undermined the new Secretary of State and President Trump whenever possible.
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!!!
Captain Hyperbole's beeber is a gazillion times stuned!
A good start....Kennedy was Clinton’s enabler. Neither had the interests of the US as their primary goal
A good start....Kennedy was Clinton’s enabler. Neither had the interests of the US as their primary goal
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.
My bet is they’re getting out one step ahead of the posse. Wonder if anyone plans on auditing Foggy Bottom’s books....
Reagan had to fire all the striking flight controllers.
For Trump, these corrupt Washington establishment figures are just leaving.
Wonderful.
Getting rid of these snakes including Kennedy is just draining the swamp. Its a must do.
The swamp is draining itself. Awesome.
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