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It's A Bloodbath At The State Department
nypost.com ^ | February 17, 2017 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 02/17/2017 9:10:13 AM PST by Helicondelta

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is cleaning house at the State Department, according to a report.

Staffers in the offices of deputy secretary of state for management and resources as well as counselor were shown the door Thursday, according to CBS News.

Many of those let go were on the building’s seventh floor — top-floor bigs — a symbolically important sign to the rest of the diplomatic corps that their new boss has different priorities than the last one.

This week’s round of firings marks the second time State Department personnel have been cleared out since President Trump took office last month.

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To: Helicondelta

The State Dept. is a damned cesspool sewer pipe, if trump can clean it out, he can drain the rest of the swamp.


81 posted on 02/17/2017 9:49:31 AM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Nifster

Exactly...see my post at #72


82 posted on 02/17/2017 9:49:34 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: All

Y’all do realize not a single one of these people loses a paycheck? They are gov’t employees. When they get 3 yrs service, they become career. Can’t be fired.

If they were political appointees then of course they were on the way out, regardless.

So this throwing people out of 7th floor stuff, all that means is these people are transferred to some other job, by regulation no more than 50 miles distant, and they work at that new job til retirement.

So don’t think these people are “FIRED”. They aren’t. They are just moved to another position and their present position filled with . . . political appointees.


83 posted on 02/17/2017 9:49:44 AM PST by Owen
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To: Helicondelta

Don’t these guys have jobs for life?


84 posted on 02/17/2017 9:50:05 AM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I hope that Pompeo does the same at the CIA.


85 posted on 02/17/2017 9:50:13 AM PST by Jean2
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To: Helicondelta

I’d say they should go all the way down to the 4th floor.


86 posted on 02/17/2017 9:50:41 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: Helicondelta

Excellent!
The State Dept has been outsourced.
Now the RATS know what it has been like in the High Tech private sector for the last 20 years.


87 posted on 02/17/2017 9:51:31 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Helicondelta

just so they delouse them before they kick their butts out the door and back to reality..


88 posted on 02/17/2017 9:51:34 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: dragnet2

Wow! Ben Garrison has been on FIRE! He is almost as prolific as Daniel Greenberg, and just as on target too!


89 posted on 02/17/2017 9:52:06 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Jim from C-Town

Seven senior executives is a pretty good start. Lots more to be done though.
I know a retired low-level Statie. On the ideology spectrum, he’s the period: Left _._______________/_______________ Right


90 posted on 02/17/2017 9:53:06 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: manc

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/315755-fox-news-signs-ex-kerry-adviser-marie-harf-as-contributor

Draining the swamp in the wrong direction.


91 posted on 02/17/2017 9:53:48 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: Helicondelta

Looking forward to this episode of “Madame Secretary.”


92 posted on 02/17/2017 9:53:49 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: VideoPaul

“Like an eight-hour session of drinking colon-blow before your colonoscopy.”

Please don’t remind me that I have a colonoscopy in less than two weeks.

But this time I will do a post-op colonoscopy fart selfie & forward same to the Lizzie Warren campaign.

Meanwhile, let the purges continue! ....whoops, talking about me again. I meant the State Department.

;^)


93 posted on 02/17/2017 9:55:15 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: sanjuanbob

You answered your own question. She is a left wing toxic bitch. And so is Faux news.


94 posted on 02/17/2017 9:57:06 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Helicondelta
One of the best possible things for this country would be thousands apon thousands of unemployed government workers. They are the cancer that is diverting bloodflow from healthy tissue (the private sector).
95 posted on 02/17/2017 9:58:34 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Helicondelta

Be sure to also investigate those people for possible involvement in the recent spate of leaks.


96 posted on 02/17/2017 9:58:35 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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To: pgkdan
I heard on Maria Bartiromo’s show this morning that they let seven officials go. Seven is not quite the bloodbath that I’m looking forward to but it’s a start!

Not a bloodbath yet.. but it sounds like they've removed the high-level officials from the Obama regime. By doing so, they'll have eliminated the top-cover for the chaff that resides at the lower levels.

97 posted on 02/17/2017 10:00:40 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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To: Helicondelta

Glad to hear it.

This should not be an option, it should be done in each department, anyone that was with the Obama Administration..... GONE!


98 posted on 02/17/2017 10:00:51 AM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: Helicondelta

Judging by the press spokesmen at state, the organization is basically just a wing of the liberal Dems caucus.


99 posted on 02/17/2017 10:02:39 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: proud American in Canada

The last corporation I worked for...when they fired someone they showed up at their desk, watched them pack their stuff up, and then walked them to the front door. I hope that is what they did. lol


100 posted on 02/17/2017 10:04:57 AM PST by sheana
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