Even more departures are expected as a result of an intense campaign that Mr. Tillerson has ordered to reduce the department’s longtime backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests. CNN reported that the task had resulted from Mr. Trump’s desire to accelerate the release of Mrs. Clinton’s remaining emails.

Every bureau in the department has been asked to contribute to the effort. That has left 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.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/us/politics/state-department-tillerson.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3808095&forum_id=2#34765229)

10s lib: Trans Parents.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3808095&forum_id=2#34769372)

you lib fucks can process the FOIA requests the lib fucks in the media shove in our grill

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3808095&forum_id=2#34765350)

Debbie

New York37m ago

Trump, Tillerson and their evil cohorts are a third column, bent on destroying America from the inside out.

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Rupert Laumann

Utah38m ago

Maybe the worst long-term damage he ca do next to Global Warming.

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Dave

Canada38m ago

Diplomacy is dead long live the military!

That is the clarion cry of this travesty, the Trump administration.

In a time of tension you need a brigade of diplomats and not a $70 billion dollar expansion of the military budget.

What is the deviant Trump up to? As nothing is by the norm it is therefore deviant. The deviant in chief.

Winning at the price of civilization?

Are you sick of winning yet?

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Lennerd

Seattle38m ago

It's not considered fashionable to make Hitler comparisons, but Hitler worked hard to make Germany's government chaotic - successfully, too. That chaos played into his hand as more and more government functions fell into his hands and those of his immediate circle.

Wikipedia under the heading "Nazi Germany": "All power was centralised in Hitler's person and his word became above all laws. The government was not a coordinated, co-operating body, but a collection of factions struggling for power and Hitler's favour. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Nazis restored economic stability and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending and a mixed economy."

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SCA

NH38m ago

Well, look. I watch what are called the liberal media outlets--MSNBC and CNN--whose frequent guests are former diplomats from Democratic Administrations, all of them shaking their heads sadly at the dreadful blundering of this Administration--and yet all of them failed in their goals. No peace in the Middle East; North Korea more dangerous than it ever was before; a totally failed *reset* with Russia; Afghanistan a worse, and sinking, morass, with our young men and women dying all over the globe, just continuing the pattern--

--so am I supposed to be clutching my pearls over the decimation of their remaining ranks now?

Over and over and over again, we, and the world, keep paying for what the smart people brought us.

Seriously. The dumb ones can do no worse. Maybe they'll accidentally blunder into something good. Anything can happen, right?

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GladF7

Nashville TN38m ago

Where ever he is today Putin is happy, Trump his sleeper agent has succeed beyond his wildest dreams.

Tillerson taking apart the start department is great for Russia. If we get a full 4 years of Trump God only knows how bad it will get. This is only the beginning.

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Kayleigh73

Raleigh38m ago

Of course the unqualified tRump and Tillerson will blame Hillary and Obama when a hundred Benghazis occur be the only Republican response will be to hold hearings. Trey Gowdy rides again!

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3808095&forum_id=2#34769459)

Again, if a hostile occupying force were dismantling our government agencies like this we would rise up in force. This has collusion written all over it. Tillerson, the honored friend of Russia, the personal friend of Putin. Tillerson, the head of a multi-national corporation which has it's on global, planet killing agenda, often at odds with our national interests and those of our allies. Putin and Exxon. Tillerson has his own personal agenda to weaken America's influence worldwide. Putin, the world's greatest oligarch, agrees. This is a treasonous attack on our nation and a body blow to the planet. And our Republican Congress, weak and complicit, fetal oligarchs quickening with greed or miscreant theocrats, writes letters...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3808095&forum_id=2#34769816)

"For many at the State Department, their experience under Mr. Tillerson has been a particular shock because their hopes for him were initially high.

Mrs. Clinton and John Kerry, her successor, were both seen as focused on their own priorities and were not particularly popular within the department. The model secretaries in recent history have been Colin Powell, James A. Baker III and George P. Shultz, Republicans who cared about management."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3808095&forum_id=2#34769800)

The number of those with the department’s top two ranks of career ambassador and career minister — equivalent to four- and three-star generals — will have been cut in half by Dec. 1, from 39 to 19. And of the 431 minister-counselors, who have two-star-equivalent ranks, 369 remain and another 14 have indicated that they will leave soon — an 18 percent drop — according to an accounting provided by the American Foreign Service Association.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3808095&forum_id=2#34771160)

Top-heavy and wasteful. We’re supposed to be upset over 80 or so leaving?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3808095&forum_id=2#34774982)