Top politically appointed State Department officials went after staffers that they believed to be members of the “deep state” or “disloyal” to the Trump Administration’s goals, according to a new report from the agency’s inspector general.
Well, DUH!
The Civil Servants are supposed to be protected from political appointees bs. So when does that start to happen, and what are the mechanisms that need to be employed to make it so. And that applies to every facet of the Executive Branch.
Slippery slope
Remember: we have to save ourselves. There is no country 10X more powerful and capable than we are who is going to “invade” and stop these people.
This is where the BothSiderists have to decide that they have made enough money.
Moley said that the actions described by the IG do not “represent the person I am or have ever been.”
I’d say that his actions accurately represented the douchebag he is.
…Stull had compiled a “loyalty list” of employees.
“Loyalty list”/‘enemies list,’ potaito/potahto – we’re clearly in the realm of abuse of power.
Drumpf’s involvement in Israel’s barring Tlaib and Omar’s visit is of the same kind.
Nixon was impeached for it and his tools were removed from the government. I can’t see any reason the same standards shouldn’t apply here.
O/T look who slithered out from under his rock
So much for background checks.
Mussolini like behavior.
"Stull, a former food lobbyist who blogged about wine under the moniker “vino vixen,” allegedly accused career diplomats of belonging to the “Deep State” and of “undermining the President’s agenda.”
Paranoia the destroyer.
And these aren’t just Civil Service. These are Foreign Service Officers, and the State Department has historically fought hard to preserve the ability of FSOs to speak frankly, deliver honest opinions, lodge dissent without retaliation. This is vital to the functioning of the department, and therefore to national security.
Naturally, the agent of a hostile foreign power who currently occupies the Presidency does not want to preserve our national security, and all the fellow travelers, quislings, and craven opportunists who enable him bear equal responsibility.
Contrast that with George Shultz, back in the Reagan days. Right wingers have always had an agenda against those fancy striped pants diplomats, it seems, and when the Reaganauts wanted to subject State Department employees to polygraph testing, Shultz stood up for them (and earned the lasting gratitude of the entire Foreign Service in the process).
That’s what an “honorable Republican” used to look like, back in the day.
“Obama holdovers,”
wb 2017
I don’t know about you but I’d be leery about getting my wine advice from someone named Veno Vixen.
Foreign service is supposed to serve the country without consideration of party.
Hence trump’s need to get rid of them.
(Yep, that was my grandfather’s branch.)
Sounds like just another chapter of “Well-oiled Machine: The Toadglans Years.”
So they’re all St. Ronnie’s fault?
By this point most of the damage was done. Rex started gutting State in early April 2017. Permanent staff who may have served several decades were pushed out or just canned. It will take several decades to rebuild from the Trump damage.
Gots ta be.