The State Department’s entire senior administrative team just resigned

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nt-team-just-resigned/?utm_term=.c5c3202eccaf

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.
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This is in addition to Trump firing every US Ambassador... and naming no replacements...

Holy Fuck...
 
There are some reports from the White House that Trump fired them all...
 
Whatever are those career bureaucrats going to do now? I wonder how many of them were complicit in Killary's war with Russia, that thank God, she didn't get to start? Did some of them quit to cover themselves?

Not that Trump is much more than a puffed-up blustering fool, but that woman scared me more than he does.

Time will tell.
 
Dr_Toad said:
Whatever are those career bureaucrats going to do now? I wonder how many of them were complicit in Killary's war with Russia, that thank God, she didn't get to start? Did some of them quit to cover themselves?

Not that Trump is much more than a puffed-up blustering fool, but that woman scared me more than he does.

Time will tell.
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... *shakes head sadly* Puffed up blustering fool indeed, and yeah, Hillary wasn't a good pick either... but the way we are going leads nowhere good.
 
Dr_Toad said:
I wonder how many of them were complicit in Killary's war with Russia, that thank God, she didn't get to start?
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Where does this bizarre crap get started? Of all the people unlikely to start a war with Russia - or do anything else decisive and risky - policy wonk Clinton is near the top.
 
iceaura said:
Where does this bizarre crap get started? Of all the people unlikely to start a war with Russia - or do anything else decisive and risky - policy wonk Clinton is near the top.
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I was going to ask... but then I realized I really didn't want to hear the answer. I've had enough brain cells commit seppuku thanks to hearing these "Alternative Facts"
 
Dr_Toad said:
I wonder how many of them were complicit in Killary's war with Russia, that thank God, she didn't get to start?
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Yeah, because standing firm against an authoritarian is the same as fomenting war. That's some "alternative" reasoning there.
 
Wow. Don't y'all remember the no-fly zone over Syria, you know, the one that would have started a war with Russia? Not alternative facts, just facts.
 
Yep. I wonder why? Campaign rhetoric, or just Russian hackers?

Jesus. Point fingers at everyone but the libtards.
 
iceaura said:
Where does this bizarre crap get started? Of all the people unlikely to start a war with Russia - or do anything else decisive and risky - policy wonk Clinton is near the top.
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Answer: Russian trolls. They claimed if Trump was not elected it would start WW3.

Jesus. Point fingers at everyone but the libtards.
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Pretty sure I been pointing my fingers at libtards, so I can say though that at present there is no evidence of why they left specifically and your theory is pure trolling.
 
Dr_Toad said:
Wow. Don't y'all remember the no-fly zone over Syria, you know, the one that would have started a war with Russia? Not alternative facts, just facts.
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yeah I remember the one she was going to propose. ( not exec act)
Do you remember all the Syrian civilians that were murdered by Syrian and Russian bombs?
Do you remember that the war in Syria is far from over and that water supplies to millions are currently threatened due to Russian and Syrian atrocities ( escalation)

The only "voice of reason" you had was Hillary Clinton in the final contest and the USA blew it.. big time...
 
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Justify his sacking of ambassadors with out any replacements available for months.
Justify his short notice and treatment of ambassadorial families including children.
Justify his attack on Mexican self determination. ( re: paying for a wall they never asked for)
Justify... any of Trumps actions in a away that makes sense to reasonable people...

Can't can you?
Justify why you can't...
 
I would not be in the least surprised if Trump ultimately calls for a state of emergency and calls for "Marshall law" due to the loss of so many incredibly valuable staff...and subsequent government dysfunction.
 
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