The State Department’s entire Senior Management Team just Resigned

Wash Post ^ | 1-26-2017 | Josh Rogan

[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.

[DouglasKC]

Two words: more winning

[DoodleDawg]

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.

I'm guessing that the incoming administration made it clear that their services were no longer needed.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This is a good thing. Cockroaches always scurry away when the lights come on.

[Joe 6-pack]

Good. A lot of vacancies means a lot of opportunity for others to step up to the plate and excel.

[Paladin2]

PERFECT! Foggy Bottom has been a swamp of snakes for decades.

[gr8eman]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult.

Lie number one! First sentence, of course!

[Liz]

......on Wed afternoon, Patrick Kennedy and three State Dept officials resigned: Asst Secy of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Asst Secy of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Amb Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions.........

Looks like they're bolting for the exits before the sheriff starts questioning them.

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<><> Trump and Sessions MUST closely examine every single one of these people attached to Hillary.

<><> DEMAND that Congress uncover everything these people know about Hillary's activities.

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

Great news! Now if the CIA senior boys would do likewise.

[mrsmith]

*China rearranging it’s moles.*

The Republican Establishment will have to help Trump out for a while until he can fill the spots.
No big deal.

[eyeamok]

I’m Confused??? This should make his job much easier now that he can hire Americans to fill those positions instead of the Marxist Quislings that were there.

[Eagles6]

This is great!

They say that one gets complacent with always winning but I'm willing to chance it.

[fwdude]

Were half of them trannies?

[PAR35]

Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult.

Sounds like to me it just got a lot easier.

[Covenantor]

So much for those careerist globalists patriotic sense of duty. Continuing sabotage by Kennedy, the one who repeatedly denied additional security for Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens. By doing that, Kennedy, in collusion with SoS Hillary Clinton, set the stage for the murderous attack killing four US citizens.

Now that it became clear to him that he wasn't going to enjoy power, he bolts at the critical transition phase. And coincidentally so do the others.

They all need to be investigated by the State Department Inspector General and DOJ

[Honorary Serb]

Now maybe they won’t be shipping refugeehadis into our country any more!!!!

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/26/bureaucrats-test-trump-another-512-refugees-brought-wednesday-ban-expected-thursday/

As a former Lutheran, I say SHAME on Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service for participating in this nation-destroying work!!!! I once knew the President/CEO of this organization, way back, but have had no contact with her since then.

http://lirs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Linda_Hartke_Bio.pdf

That is all for the best!

[Mariner]

Good riddance to these globalists who cannot, in good conscience, support “America First”.

[meadsjn]

I hope they had to surrender their passports for a while.

[SandRat]

Good!

And All of their desks and parking spaces better be empty as well as all their ID Badges and keys turned in. All, and I MEAN ALL combinations better be changed, plus All Their NAMES removed from all/any access roster.

[Liz]

ITEM--Sen Charles Grassley's inquiry to State Dept investigator recently revealed that Hillary aide, Huma Abedin, improperly collected some $14,000 taxpayer dollars. Sen Grassley also inquired about Abedin's unusual employment status---whether US conflict-of-interest laws were violated when Hillary gave Abedin special employment status in which Abedin worked simultaneously for:

<><> (1) the State Department,

<><> (2) the Clinton Foundation,

<><> (3) as a private consultant,

<><> (4) consulted Teneo, a global financial firm w/ Bill Clinton a member of the board.

<><> formed her private company "Zain Endeavors, LLC" 12 days before she exited State.

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ITEM-- Taxpayers demand to be informed if Huma Adedin, Cheryl Mills, Sid Blumenthal, and other Clinton cronies are STILL listed as State Dept employees---perhaps as contractors---and are still receiving classified mail and govt paychecks.

Evidence indicates Hillary and aides did not sign exit forms. Signing the exit form would have cutoff access to State Dept info......info the Clintons rely on to cash-in.

Note Brian Pagliano---Hillary's personal IT---left her employ then surfaced on the public payroll as a State Dept contractor.

[bigbob]

Sometimes the swamp just drains itself...