CNN reported that the Trump administration told the four most senior State Department officials “that their services were no longer needed as part of an effort to ‘clean house'”.
Patrick Kennedy, who served for nine years as the undersecretary for management, Assistant Secretaries for Administration and Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Joyce Anne Barr, and Ambassador Gentry Smith, director of the Office for Foreign Missions, were sent letters by the White House that their service was no longer required, sources told CNN.
Additionally, “Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr retired on January 20, and the director of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, Lydia Muniz, departed the same day. That amounts to a near-complete housecleaning of all the senior officials that deal with managing the State Department, its overseas posts and its people.”
The White House is cleaning out and getting rid of liberal interventionists, officials confirmed. Victoria Nuland, the State Department’s assistant secretary for Europe, and responsible for flaming the conflict in Ukraine, was also fired.
The Obama administration had a grip on the entire US State Department, the reason for the current mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who have been rendered superfluous in the Trump era.
The mass resignations took place while Rex Tillerson was inside the State Department’s headquarters on Wednesday. As the Washington Post noted: “It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember.”
Here's an updated State Department Org Chart.
Blue X's are unfilled appointee positions. Red X's are resignations. pic.twitter.com/gF5p0YGFKC
— Emily Roslin v Praze (@EmilyGorcenski) January 26, 2017
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