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The entire senior management team at State Dept. just
Posted: Jan 26, 2017
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.";
Good Riddance! A self-draining swamp. - More winning!
[ In Reply To ..]Their departure is good, the manner of their departure is unprofessional.
They have already lined up lucrative lobbying jobs on - behalf of their Middle East "friends"
[ In Reply To ..]Here is a good one gone:
"Victoria Nuland will be remembered for being behind at least a dozen coups around the world, with the most famous being of course in Ukraine.
She is also responsible for the fiasco in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, the very successful coups in Bulgaria where a new government was installed three times in fourteen months, and is behind the unsuccessful coups in Hungary and Macedonia to name just a few.
Rather than being aligned with Obama - Resist
[ In Reply To ..]they are aligned with sanity - and no alternative facts!
Just goes to show how politicized our institutions have become. - State Dept has been liberal for years.
[ In Reply To ..]The Congressional Investigation into Benghazi and Clinton emails is not yet over and will continue. They could be bailing.
Now they will have to give up the special visas for all their nannies and housekeepers.
Could be they are just protesting that idiot - in office
[ In Reply To ..]Say what you want but this idiot has caused more chaos in this country than you folks could ever blame on Obama. He's very dangerous to us. Russia is winning and you are celebrating along with them.
There you libs go again. - Hilarious
[ In Reply To ..]It figures the liberal press and its throngs of mouth-breathing liberal followers would try to make a "BIG STORY" about something ROUTINE that happens EVERY time a new POTUS comes in.
Actually... - anonon
[ In Reply To ..]Patrick Kennedy - the undersecretary for management was appointed in November of 2007 - during Bush - He was apparently working quite closely with the transition team and surprised co-workers when he resigned today along with many other senior people in the office. He had been angling to stay, but apparently something happened that made him change his mind. Not sure if meetings with Tillerson did so or if he was told it was time for him to. I doubt we will ever truly know for sure.
Using your "Logic" - LOGIC101
[ In Reply To ..]Applying your rationale, the Bush State Department should have STAYED ON during the Obama years.
But since they didn't they were "protesting that idiot."
As always, you libs have ZERO facts on your side, only IRRATIONALITY.
Rats jumping ship! - SCANDALS
[ In Reply To ..]You raise a very good point.
I forgot about all the SCANDALS plaguing BO's State Department, not only Benghazi but PAY FOR PLAY.
Oh, now their rats - I thought you were
[ In Reply To ..]glad they were gone, cleaning the swamp and all.
You LIKE rats? - SCANDALS
[ In Reply To ..]Reread your post and see if you can spot the absurdity:
Oh, now their rats - I thought you were
Posted: Jan 26th, 2017 - 2:06 pm In Reply to: Rats jumping ship! - SCANDALS
glad they were gone, cleaning the swamp and all.
RATS are NOT GOOD. Get it now?
I got it all along - did you?
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Rats jumping ship is a common phrase. - Gawd
[ In Reply To ..]Yes, I "GOT" what **I** wrote.
You must be unfamiliar with this common phrase in our vernacular.
Otherwise, why'd you ask the (nonsensical) question?
Changing of the guard. - NotNew
[ In Reply To ..]Nothing new here.
New administration, new leadership. Happens every time we have a new administration.
As I was told earlier - take the blinders off
[ In Reply To ..]nm
READ HISTORY. - GoodGOD
[ In Reply To ..]Lemme get this straight:
Because a new REPUBLICAN administration is coming in, the DEMOCRATS who worked for Obama are supposed to STAY?
Even though:
* Ideologies are different, ergo
* Policies are different
You DO realize, don't you, that for them to STAY would be UNPRECEDENTED?
To just up and walk out is different from - leaving their job
[ In Reply To ..]Funny how you make light of all that is going on in this country now. Nothing that is going on is as usual, of course the right feeds on his idiotic behavior.
Yes, grandstanding WORKS on nonthinkers. - LMAO
[ In Reply To ..]Of course, they're making a POLITICAL STATEMENT. They KNEW that throngs of dumb Demoncraps will think this is a "HUUUUGGGEEEE DEAL!"
The country expects NOTHING LESS from the stupid Demoncraps.
The ignorance by the right on this board is astounding. sm - oldtimer
[ In Reply To ..]It is a well know fact that at the beginning of a new presidency all department higher ups turn in their resignation and the president either accepts or requests that they stay on the job. This is exactly what happened.
Which is why - Reader
[ In Reply To ..]Which is why this is old hat and a nonstory.
Entire State Dept Management Team fired by Trump - Administration...
[ In Reply To ..]The entire senior level management team at the State Department was fired by President Donald Trump’s administration this week, CNN reported Thursday.
Senior administration officials told CNN's Elise Labott that four top State Department staffers were informed in letters sent by the White House that their service was no longer required. The pro forma resignation letters typically submitted by the heads of federal agencies at the start of new administrations were accepted.
The Washington Post previously reported that undersecretary for management Patrick Kennedy stepped down unexpectedly Wednesday after nine years in his role, and 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, all followed suit. The four officials, who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations, are charged with managing the agency and overseeing its staff diplomatic posts abroad.
“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” David Wade, State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry, told the newspaper. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”
If confirmed, President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, will begin his term without the assistance of career civil servants who can help him navigate the inner workings of the agency. Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, has no experience working in government. He was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on party lines, and is expected to be confirmed by the GOP-controlled Senate.
Sounds like liberal talking points to me..."ignorance is - astounding"
[ In Reply To ..]Shrinking the size of government in the first week.....wonderful.
But see... - Trump hasn'tt filled
[ In Reply To ..]many of these jobs, so if these people walk away, there will be nobody there. He is too busy quibbling about his low inauguration turnout and voter fraud to pay attention to the job at hand.
The writing was on the wall. - BigTime
[ In Reply To ..]The incoming administration made it QUITE CLEAR that ALL POLITICALLY-APPOINTED AMBASSADORS WOULD NOT BE RETAINED (keep reading after quote):
"Mr. Trump has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.
A State Department official confirmed to Politico that the Trump transition team would not be making any exceptions for ambassadors requesting extensions to remain at their posts."
This kind of "hard-line" stance sent a CLEAR MESSAGE that he would NOT be keeping any of Obozo's people.
Ergo, State Department staff has resigned before head could can them (actually, accept their resignations) because they already KNEW that he wanted them GONE. Childishly, they decided to POLITICIZE it and try to make "news," which failed utterly.
Not ambassadors - anonon
[ In Reply To ..]and not Obama appointees either!
You obviously didn't read the entire post. - Read
[ In Reply To ..]I acknowledged that the story was about ambassadors, which SET THE TONE for the entire State Department.
He was going to LET GO ALL APPOINTED BY OTHER POTUSes. They KNEW that, so they quit.
End of story!
Some perspective. - GOVERNMENT
[ In Reply To ..]My friend/mentor, who is a retired corporate attorney and a leader in local, county government and is involved in SEVERAL organizations, taught me this:
The GOOD LEADERS FIRE EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY AS SOON AS THEY COME ON BOARD.
In politics, EVEN at the LOCAL (County) level, you DO NOT WANT leftovers from the previous administration. Those people will most likely NOT to loyal to you, your goals, OR the organization under your leadership.
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