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About 900 State Department officials sign dissent memo: source
Yahoo News ^ | 31 Jan 2017

Posted on 01/31/2017 3:09:28 PM PST by mandaladon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roughly 900 U.S. State Department officials signed an internal dissent memo critical of President Donald Trump's travel ban for refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, a source familiar with the document said on Tuesday.

A senior State Department official confirmed that the memorandum in the department's "dissent channel" had been submitted to management.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Monday he was aware of the memo but warned career diplomats that they should either "get with the program or they can go."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: federalgovernment; muslims; statedepartment; statedept; travelban; trump; trump7countryban; trumpstatedept
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To: profit_guy

45,000 of those employees are local foreign nationals, local to the embassy & consulates they work in.

45000 too many? Very likely! They’re translators ,clerks, janitors, cooks, etc. How many actually is needed? Good question!

Necessary but a constant potential security problem no matter what the number.


81 posted on 01/31/2017 4:33:18 PM PST by Reily
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To: HollyB

It’s just bad timing and unlucky for these statie pukes that Atty General Sally took a brave stand—”I’m better than Trump, I won’t do my job!”—just after they put their names to this manifest insubordination.
Trump made it clear to Mustang Sally that he wouldn’t put up with it. Fire them for cause.


82 posted on 01/31/2017 4:35:10 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: mandaladon

Now he knows who to fire.


83 posted on 01/31/2017 4:39:00 PM PST by chb
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To: mandaladon

Trump should follow Obama's precedent when government employees don't follow the law.

Don't fire them. Put them in jail.

Anybody remember the county clerk, in Tennessee I think, that was arrested and jailed over gay marriages licenses?

Of course, NOBODY in the GOP came to her aid. Except Huckabee.

84 posted on 01/31/2017 4:43:35 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Time for a downsizing of these anti-American fed employees who mostly sit on their fat rear ends and watch porn.


85 posted on 01/31/2017 4:47:06 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: mandaladon

900 less federal employees on the payroll is a good start.


86 posted on 01/31/2017 4:48:11 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: mandaladon; All

I wouldn’t be surprised if Ovomit & or Killery are covertly. ordering & directing these anti-Trump activities.


87 posted on 01/31/2017 4:58:14 PM PST by ResisTyr (esistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: mandaladon

Does the State Department actually do anything? Constructive I mean? Do we actually need it?


88 posted on 01/31/2017 5:18:33 PM PST by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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To: Reno89519

The Trump Administration is totally justified if they fire every single State Department employee who signed the memo.


89 posted on 01/31/2017 5:20:16 PM PST by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: Lisbon1940

206 counties * 75 employeeson average = 15,450 employees needed. Fire 1/2 of the State Department.


90 posted on 01/31/2017 5:23:24 PM PST by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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900 that facilitated the destabilization of the ME?


91 posted on 01/31/2017 5:27:22 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: mandaladon

Making Trump’s swamp-draining job easier.


92 posted on 01/31/2017 5:31:41 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.")
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To: mandaladon
 
 
Imagine hearing "You're Fired!", 900 times.
 
 

93 posted on 01/31/2017 5:35:36 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: mandaladon

900 positions that will no longer be funded


94 posted on 01/31/2017 5:36:27 PM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: mandaladon

Bye Bye. Now we know where some of the swamp critters are.

P.S. It’s NOT a Travel Ban. It’s a pause in issuing credentials to insure uniform and adequate vetting procedures.

It’s also a removal of an Obama waiver - ie full implementation of the law that Congress passed and Obama signed.


95 posted on 01/31/2017 5:48:59 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: mandaladon
In other news...the White House announces 900 new jobs will need to be filled be eliminated...

FIFY

96 posted on 01/31/2017 5:49:20 PM PST by rllngrk33 (Things have been getting better since January 20, 2017.)
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To: mandaladon

900 pink slips now!


97 posted on 01/31/2017 5:58:29 PM PST by victim soul (victim soul)
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To: mandaladon

900 pink slips now!


98 posted on 01/31/2017 5:58:49 PM PST by victim soul (victim soul)
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To: mandaladon

The swamp is draining itself!


100 posted on 01/31/2017 6:00:17 PM PST by Fedora
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