The Entire Senior Management Team At The State Department Just Resigned

Zero Hedge ^ | Jan 26, 2017 11:29 AM | Tyler Durden

[F105-D ThunderChief]

Demonstrating just how ideologically alligned with the Obama administration was the entire US State Department, moments ago the WaPo reported that "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."

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[wubjo]

YAY!!! Keep that thar xcreeement flushin' outta them thar deeeepartmenz!

[F105-D ThunderChief]

I have always found Zero Hedge to be a reliable news source. My observation of the state department over the last eight years leads me to believe that they felt that they were accountable to no one. I think they presented a problem to the President and would not have followed his orders. The globalist are crying foul over President Trump’s America First plan. The Clinton/Kerry staff need to be removed!

[Pinkbell]

This means Trump gets to hire his own people, right? The swamp is being drained!

[LucyT]

Article and comments, esp # 104 .

Keep your eye on where Patrick Kennedy ends up.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3481806/posts?page=46

Documents revealed Kennedy tried to horse-trade with the FBI, offering additional slots for the bureau overseas if they would de-classify a particular email from Hillary Clinton’s server marked “SECRET.”

The files also revealed he repeatedly tried to “influence” the bureau’s decision when his offer was denied, even taking his plea up the chain of command.

Thanks, Maggie.

[samtheman]

I think I just figured this out (I didn’t read the whole thread and maybe I’m late with this theory):

All these nimrods got enough of a cut of Hillary’s American Influence To Go business that they’re all retiring.

[SaveFerris]

[ The Entire Senior Management Team At The State Department Just Resigned ]

I LOVE good news!!!!

[SaveFerris]

[Wow! A self-draining swamp!]

I suspect a few more swamps are going to self-drain in the coming months....

[maggief]

Watch for Mrs. Kagan (Victoria Nuland), too.

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ERIC EDELMAN
ROBERT KAGAN
WILLIAM KRISTOL
DAN SENOR

[The Westerner]

See my tagline. The ivory tower needs a complete overhaul.

[Jack Black]

Thanks. Not sure what I like more, the continued winning or the continued whining. After all -a great man was once was asked what the greatest happiness in life is, and answered:

"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentations of their women"

We're not quite there yet, but we are getting close.

[rawcatslyentist]

Airline flights to Rio are booked solid.

Take the money and run! Yer next US residence will be at the crossbar hotel!

[cva66snipe]

How about mid level also? Can they resign as an extra added bonus? State Dept and EPA need a complete turnover.

[fivecatsandadog]

Ta-Ta, don’t let the door hit you in your tu-tu!

[rodguy911]

From the link:

So did Kennedy jump or was he pushed. Rogin doesn’t give a definitive answer, but a short while ago CNN reported the departures were part of an effort by the Trump administration to clean house:

Follow Jim Sciutto ✔ @jimsciutto

Breaking: Four top @StateDept Mgmt officials all fired by Trump admin, part of effort to "clean house" - officials tell @eliselabottcnn

12:50 PM - 26 Jan 2017

1,281 1,281 Retweets 827 827 likes Patrick Kennedy was the person working behind the scenes to downgrade classified emails found on Hillary Clinton’s private server. When the first SECRET email turned up on Clinton’s server, Kennedy intervened three different times to ask the FBI to change its mind about the classification. From Politico:

Deputy Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy intervened with the FBI to dispute the classification at least three times: in a May 14, 2015, call to International Operations Division chief Brian McCauley, at an in-person meeting at the State Department five days later and in a phone conversation with the head of FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, Michael Steinbach.

The unnamed FBI author of the message to Jupina said Kennedy summoned various officials to State to discuss the review of 55,000 of Clinton emails requested under FOIA. At that meeting, Kennedy asked the FBI representative and a Justice Department FOIA official to “stay behind to discuss the FBI determination” on classification in the first batch of Clinton emails, the FBI email says.

An email from Steinbach said he turned down Kennedy’s request that the information be withheld solely under a FOIA provision for protection of law enforcement sources, rather than by classifying it.

As it turned out, Kennedy’s attempt to fix the problem for Hillary didn’t matter. There were 110 email chains on her server that were classified (at the time they were sent not upgraded as the State Department repeatedly claimed) so reclassifying one email would not have helped much.

In addition to his role as fixer for Clinton at the State Department, Kennedy was ultimately responsible for decisions regarding security at the Benghazi consulate. The review board did not find Kennedy responsible for the decision to cut security, but chargé d’affaires Gregory Hicks testified he believed Kennedy should have been held at least partly responsible.

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Seems kennedy one of the retired, fired,resigned clinotnistas was also involved in Benghazi as well,gotta wonder if that had anything to do with him being fired, resigned or retired.....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Absolutely!

[boxlunch]

(The real change must be in the textbooks of our nation!)

Love your tagline! I agree. Trump is fighting the most explosive fires right now, but we must get to the foundation of our problems which (besides a need for spiritual revival), is the Marxism taught in very single public school from elementary through college. THAT will provide long term change.

[generally]

Amen to that!

[PhiloBedo]

This ought to make it easier for AG Sessions to get some of those missing emails from Hillary.

[TigersEye]

Their passports should be restricted so they don’t try to flee justice.