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Re: State Department's senior executive team "resigns"  

By: Decomposed in POPE IV | Recommend this post (3)
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Beldin: 

re: "But I strongly suspect that after four years of Hillary Clinton and four of John Kerry, there's much to be said for a housecleaning at Foggy Bottom."

When the story broke, I immediately suspected that the team was given the option of resigning or being fired. I still think that's what probably happened. 




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State Department's senior executive team "resigns"
By: Beldin in POPE IV
Fri, 27 Jan 17 11:45 PM 		Msg. 19204 of 47202

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/01/state-departments-senior-executive-team-resigns.php

Josh Rogin of the Washington Post reports 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." The departing officials are Patrick Kennedy, the Department's long-serving undersecretary for management; 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.

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Kennedy was implicated in the Benghazi fiasco. He was also involved in the Clinton email scandal. Fox News reported that Kennedy proposed a "quid pro quo" to convince the FBI to strip the classification on an email from Hillary Clinton's server and repeatedly tried to "influence" the bureau's decision when his offer was denied.

I see no reason to mourn his departure.

The others may have been exemplary civil servants for all I know. But I strongly suspect that after four years of Hillary Clinton and four of John Kerry, there's much to be said for a housecleaning at Foggy Bottom.

Unfortunately, I have seen no indication of resignations or firings in the notoriously anti-Israel Near East Bureau.


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