Tillerson is firing senior diplomats in droves

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    “Among those fired or sidelined were most of the top African-American and Latino diplomats, as well as many women, difficult losses in a department that has long struggled with diversity.”

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    As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fires and forces the resignations of dozens of State Department staff, including senior diplomats and other high-ranking officials, many are speaking out amid their departures.

    According to a Friday night report in the The New York Times, Tillerson has not only frozen hiring and failed to nominate people to the majority of the department’s politically-appointed positions — he’s also engaged in what appears to be an intentional campaign to push out as many career diplomats as possible.

    “[Tillerson’s] small cadre of aides have fired some diplomats and gotten others to resign by refusing them the assignments they wanted or taking away their duties altogether,” the Times report states. “Among those fired or sidelined were most of the top African-American and Latino diplomats, as well as many women, difficult losses in a department that has long struggled with diversity.”

    Among the methods used to push out senior diplomats is by forcing them to undertake menial tasks under Tillerson’s presidentially-directed order to accelerate Freedom of Information Act requests (which are currently backlogged). The task has required every department in the bureau to contribute. As a result, “midlevel employees and diplomats — including some just returning from high-level or difficult overseas assignments — to spend months performing mind-numbing clerical functions beside unpaid interns.”

    “The United States is at the center of every crisis around the world, and you simply cannot be effective if you don’t have assistant secretaries and ambassadors in place,” R. Nicholas Burns, a retired career diplomat who served as under secretary of state during George W. Bush’s adminsitration, told the Times. “It shows a disdain for diplomacy.”

    The report notes that Tillerson still has not nominated an assistant secretary for East Asia or an amabssador to South Korea — two positions that are integral to finding a diplomatic solution to President Donald Trump’s continually escalating feud with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

    Dana Shell Smith, an ambassador to Qatar who recently resigned, told the Times that many were hopeful about Tillerson’s arrival and hoped he’d “finally get the department in shape” after the tenures of Clinton and former Secretary of State John Kerry, both of whom were unpopular. That optimism, however, soon soured.

    “These people either do not believe the U.S. should be a world leader, or they’re utterly incompetent,” she said. “Either way, having so many vacancies in essential places is a disaster waiting to happen.”
     
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    Rex Tillerson is a plant just like all of Trump's appointees. Their mission is to destroy or undermine the departments and agencies they lead from the inside. That's why Ben Carson was made HUD secretary even though he knows nothing about housing policy and has never served in government or how Betsy Devos was put in charge of the Department of Education even though she wants to destroy public schools.
     
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    Right...I remember @BlackguyExecutive discussing his difficulties and apprehension as a diplomat concerning Trump/Tillerson earlier this year.
     
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    The fundamental dismantling of State is extremely problematic and will likely have detrimental ripples around the world. Basically, the entire top tier of career diplomats has either been fired or removed from their positions, resulting in a fundamental brain drain of experience and expertise. It is a really dark time in the diplomatic corp. Even those of us who are coming up on our 5-year tenure mark are scared that our careers will be undercut.

    Also, if you are planning to travel overseas, I would check to see if diplomats are in the country. Many of the missions and consulates are operating without proper staff.
     
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