Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson at the White House on Monday. Mr. Tillerson has made no secret of his belief that the State Department is a bloated bureaucracy. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times
New York Times: Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves
WASHINGTON — Of all the State Department employees who might have been vulnerable in the staff reductions that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has initiated as he reshapes the department, the one person who seemed least likely to be a target was the chief of security, Bill A. Miller.
Republicans pilloried Hillary Clinton for what they claimed was her inadequate attention to security as secretary of state in the months before the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Congress even passed legislation mandating that the department’s top security official have unrestricted access to the secretary of state.
But in his first nine months in office, Mr. Tillerson turned down repeated and sometimes urgent requests from the department’s security staff to brief him, according to several former top officials in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Finally, Mr. Miller, the acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security, was forced to cite the law’s requirement that he be allowed to speak to Mr. Tillerson.
Mr. Miller got just five minutes with the secretary of state, the former officials said. Afterward, Mr. Miller, a career Foreign Service officer, was pushed out, joining a parade of dismissals and early retirements that has decimated the State Department’s senior ranks. Mr. Miller declined to comment.
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WNU Editor: The U.S. State Department has a history that I am not impressed with .... so I do not feel sorry that those who have been at the forefront of U.S. diplomacy for years (if not decades) are now being shown the door with buy-out packages and comfortable pensions. This is a time for fresh blood with a different viewpoint on what should be the U.S. role in the world, and for those who just want to maintain the status quo .... well .... their time has passed.
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The only difference between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and ISIS is that the MB will take the NAZI route. They will wear a suit, gain power, consolidate it, and then turn on the ovens.
The MB has supporters in the U.S., like Obama or swamp dwellers in the State Department
ISIS will dispense with the ovens and just go for it from the word go.
"Increasingly, the pro-Muslim Brotherhood attitudes of the CIA and State Department are increasingly at odds with their sister intelligence agencies in Europe, including Germany."
Is this what victory looks like?
"How 30 masked ISIS jihadis used burnt-out cars to trap Egyptian worshippers outside a mosque before killing 305 - including 27 children
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5116227/Arena-death-Islamist-terrorists-slaughtered-300.html
Smith's cup runneth over...again. and what has this to do with the posted article? nada. zip. nothing. zero. squat
You can't like what you've seen from state, Fred.
That's what originally got me over here from the daily worker.
What once could only be suspected is now known for a fact. Children run amock.
Maidan
They didn't need nuland's cookies.
Libya
No reason really even given.
Rex Tillerson is doing the right job. Obama put pro-MB people everywhere in all Department and that's a shame we are not doing the same purge in them. The quickest, the best.
Fred,
I am betting that a lot of those purged are MB lovers. So yeah it has a lot to do with the article.
LMFAO
https://books.google.ca/books?id=x6bY-CPkdycC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=state+department+china+hands+purge&source=bl&ots=VjyKOmSUp3&sig=TLO6Xh_vlTw_bQ0-WdZr2eEq8fg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGyfveotvXAhWD26QKHXanCXMQ6AEIODAC
Poor Jay,
You do not get who Mao was.
LMFAO
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/03/opinion/a-state-dept-purge.html
LMFAO
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Gf_yCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT145&lpg=PT145&dq=conservatives+attacks+on+the+left+fail&source=bl&ots=sH05FAP6BX&sig=k2ziRbnN-1ZcVgg6_5EFCkX3BoU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY5aGTu9vXAhVRFOwKHc-JBnsQ6AEIUDAG#v=onepage&q=conservatives%20attacks%20on%20the%20left%20fail&f=false
That's why I'm thinking Aizino's on medication.on some days he's in control what he's doing. Other days it looks like he was fighting squirrels while posting :)
We do not need Muslim Brotherhood loving diplomats working for the State Department.
About damn well time Patrick Kennedy was gone.
"His determination to master the minutiae of the U.S. mission to Libya’s operations extended to security. He made the fateful decision that reduced professional American security personnel assigned to Tripoli from 34 to 6, with tragic consequences for Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glenn Doherty and Ty Woods."
foxnews.com/opinion/2016/10/21/ex-state-dept-insider-patrick-kennedys-long-history-with-scandal.html
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