Entire state dept senior management resigns

[playahaitian]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...y-senior-manager-at-the-state-department.html​

 

[ViCiouS]

Trump Just Replaced the State Department’s Senior Management
By Eric LevitzShareTweetSharePin ItEmailCommentopposing the policies of the department that he has been appointed to lead.

But there was a simple answer to any qualms these qualities might inspire: Should the secretary of State have trouble navigating the federal bureaucracy — or resisting the urge to put the interests of Exxon’s shareholders above those of the American people — the department’s senior civil servants would keep him from going astray.

And then, on Wednesday, the Trump administration forced out four senior-level management officials at the State Department.


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Breaking: Four top @StateDept Mgmt officials all fired by Trump admin, part of effort to "clean house" - officials tell @eliselabottcnn

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Prior to CNN’s report, the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin had written that the officials may have resigned at their own volition. But a deliberate housecleaning is actually more consistent with Rogin’s dispatch.

Tillerson was actually inside the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom on Wednesday, taking meetings and getting the lay of the land. I reported Wednesday morning that the Trump team was narrowing its search for his No. 2, and that it was looking to replace the State Department’s long-serving undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy, who has been in that job for nine years, was actively involved in the transition and was angling to keep that job under Tillerson, three State Department officials told me.

Then suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officials confirmed. 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, followed him out the door. All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

All four of the career officers had submitted letters of resignation shortly after Trump’s inauguration – a longstanding tradition that empowers the new administration to select its own staff, should it wish to.

However, presidents usually do not accept those resignations until successors have been found and confirmed. Trump’s hasty housecleaning leaves a void at the department: Combined with the recent retirements of other senior staff, Wednesday’s departures leave the State Department with virtually no one experienced at managing its domestic bureaucracy, overseas offices, and staff, according to Rogin.

“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” said David Wade, State Department chief of staff during John Kerry’s tenure, told Rogin. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”


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I have been doing national security in Washington for over 35 years. I have never seen anything like this. http://wpo.st/_xBV2

11:50 AM - 26 Jan 2017

Opinion | The State Department’s entire senior administrative team just resigned
All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

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“The department will not collapse,” a senior administration official assured CNN. “Everyone has good deputies. It’s a huge institutional loss, but the department has excellent subordinates and the career people will step up. They will take up the responsibility.”

why are these reporters rolling over? this is dishonest reporting / fluffing

 

[mcguyver]

Hell ol fuck boy might make the whole eight.

To much money can be fleeced from our country made while he's in office and he's strategically placing all his boy's- "former" ceo's of major global corporations- in positions of influence to help him maintain the keys of power. Google "Rex Tillerman Russia Oil" and that'll explain 75% of the shit going on right now.....

Dude is a business man of the highest order, he knows how to set shit up.

Minus an uprising only seen in 3rd worlds dictatorships once the despot loses the keys of power shitbird ain't going nowhere. Not until he run these pockets.

Please watch this video...



*two cents*

There just may be an uprising. Did you see how those cacs acted the day of and after the inauguration?

 

[Mask]

 

[Naha-Nago]

There just may be an uprising. Did you see how those cacs acted the day of and after the inauguration?

That is a possibility...and hell even a probability.

But the point is that he's going to have to be thrown out.

*two cents*

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Not even a full week bro!!

 

[Hitek]

be warned 45 may sign executive order so that he will be Emperor and Chief with no term limits

 

[The Plutonian]

They some snooty motherfuckers too. Arrogant privileged motherfuckers but yea, fuck Donald Duck mouth mf trump

 

[Amajorfucup]

Craziness.

 

[praetor]

And she's only 50

I thought she was knocking on 70.

 

[easy_b]

This may be related I'm going to make a post about this

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/26/1625607/-Did-the-Trump-White-House-out-our-top-asset-in-Russia

 

[Mello Mello]

I thought Trump asked them to leave.

 

[mangobob79]

did they resign or got dropped?

 

[playahaitian]

did they resign or got dropped?

I'm STILL trying to figure that out

 

[Darth Furious]

no he isn't - none of his businesses make money, he never created an organization - businessmen have corporations not LLCs functioning as s-corps to hide debt and launder money

not going to happen... he fires people that are honest with him

Damnit Vicious, I was trying to be positive mane. You killing me here, chill the fuck out with all this reality. Embrace the alternative facts for awhile huh?



And yes I disagree he is STILL a businessman. Just not a good one.

those are civil servant positions... not appointees
any replacements that aren't deputies or department heads under these guys- will be lost

THIS

And the GS folks are debating about at what level does this freeze affect them or not as if GS 13s were all safe and the rest aren't but that may not be the case. They don't know. Nobody knows shit.

Trump said he fired their asses

2 = 2 + 5

Of course.

why are these reporters rolling over? this is dishonest reporting / fluffing

They either falling in line or trying to get their google hits up by being first with the story. Even Fox - yes FOX NEWS are calling Trump out for the bullshit outrage and fake facts when they come up. Don't get me wrong, they are not as pressed on it as the other outlets but they are keeping score.

did they resign or got dropped?

I'm STILL trying to figure that out

And this is the game. It works like a charm. Americans are fucking stupid.

It worked when Repubs had crazy crackers everywhere running to the gun store and stockpiling shit as if a war was coming and Obama was taking their guns. But nothing happened. Nothing at all. It doesn't even matter - the fact that all those reports were promoted against his campaign had virulent and staunch believers to back them and repeat them and spread the lie.

Till this day, them white niggas still talking shit about their guns and religion.





oNE

 

[kinglickk]

Woolsey is already OUT.

The other senior folks are seeing signs on the walls Im sure. Fuck is going on, this is too much.

Chump will hire some russians and bring them in on H1-B visas.

 

[darth frosty]

This needs as thread if it's not already posted. I'm not going to make one for the main board, and y'all never venture over to the politics section so I'm putting it here.

It's like this administration has been out to gut the state department from day one

 

[darth frosty]

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/m...icial-to-exit-leaving-myriad-questions-221386

Top State cyber official to exit, leaving myriad questions
By TIM STARKS

07/18/2017 10:00 AM EDT

With help from Eric Geller and Martin Matishak

STATE DEPARTMENT LOSES TOP CYBER OFFICIAL — The global cybersecurity community is still struggling to process the news that Christopher Painter, the Trump administration’s top cyber diplomat, will leave his State Department job at the end of the month, as Eric first reported on Monday. Painter, the coordinator for cyber issues at State, has been leading American delegations to international cyber meetings since 2011, negotiating joint agreements with other countries on issues like protecting critical infrastructure and developing cyber norms. “Chris has been a tireless defender of American interests in cyberspace,” Jason Healey, a senior cyber researcher at Columbia University, told MC, “flying hundreds of thousands of miles a year to push our views of freedom online, conduct countless bilateral meetings with allies and friends and [champion] international engagement in multilateral settings.”

“The U.S. government didn’t have many like Chris,” Healey said, “and his departure will be a major loss.” Painter previously served in top cyber roles at the National Security Council, the FBI and the Justice Department. He may return to DOJ, where he is technically an employee on detail to State. DOJ did not respond to a request for comment on his status. “Chris will be hard to replace,” said James Lewis, a cyber expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “This will be an easy one to mess up.” Michael Sulmeyer, a former senior Pentagon cyber policy official, told MC that Painter accumulated invaluable experience in his previous jobs. “You weren’t just ‘working with State,’” he said of interagency meetings with Painter. “He and his colleagues understood the broader concerns and priorities of everyone else in the room.”

— WHAT’S NEXT AT STATE: Painter’s departure may complicate the State Department’s task of delivering an international cyber strategy to President Donald Trump by late September as part of his cyber executive order. Tim Maurer, co-director of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the tight deadline made appointing a successor “an important and urgent task.” More generally, he said, the world needs U.S. cyber leadership: “The security environment continues to deteriorate while geopolitical tensions remain high and diplomatic efforts to tackle cyber threats are stalling or making only slow progress.” A State Department official said the agency “will continue to address and prioritize these important cyber issues.”

But Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is considering closing the cyber office or merging it with another office and downgrading the cyber coordinator’s rank, according to a source familiar with internal planning. “It’s a step back from everything done over the last ten years,” said the source, who added that Tillerson was also considering “limiting the number of people who work on cybersecurity” at State. “They basically gave [Painter] two weeks notice,” the source told MC. “It’s clear they’re thinking about reorganizing it. … Clearly they don’t think it’s that important.” A State Department spokesman did not provide a comment on the fate of the cyber office. Painter’s deputy, Michele Markoff, is also an experienced cyber diplomat. When MC reached her by phone, she declined to comment on her status. “If she leaves as well,” Healey said, “it might take State years to rebuild.”

Cyber policy experts urged Tillerson not to eliminate State’s dedicated cyber mission. Doing so “would mean the United States would be the only major country without a lead diplomat to discuss cyber norms and trying to reduce the ever-escalating cyberattacks we see around the world,” Healey said. The U.S. was the first country to create a high-level cyber diplomat role, and since then dozens of other countries have followed suit. “It is not just a shame if the U.S. were to surrender that leadership, but would mean the future internet will have more Russian and Chinese characteristics.”

HAPPY TUESDAY and welcome to Morning Cybersecurity! Your MC host’s name is always at the top of the World’s Greatest Cybersecurity Newsletter, but remember that I’m just the host. Writing it is a team effort, and some days (like today) the other names that provide “help” do most of the heavy lifting. So send your thoughts, feedback and especially tips to tstarks@politico.com, and be sure to follow @timstarks, @POLITICOPro, and @MorningCybersec. But always keep in mind the full team info that’s below.

TOP DEM WEIGHS IN ON NSA-CYBERCOM SPLIT — The Trump administration should proceed cautiously with a reported plan to split the “dual-hat” leadership structure that governs the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, according to Rep. Adam Smith. If the organizations are broken up “we need to ensure it is done the right way. We must avoid leaving either organization with diminished capabilities or creating institutional gaps that could endanger national security,” Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told POLITICO in an email statement.

Smith noted that while the fiscal 2017 defense policy bill called for the elevation of Cyber Command to a unified combatant command, lawmakers directed the GAO to study the risks and benefits of breaking up the two organizations. That assessment is still underway. Smith also emphasized a provision prohibiting the Defense secretary from ending the leadership arrangement unless he and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff jointly determine and certify to Congress that doing so won’t impact the military effectiveness of the much-younger Cyber Command.

** A message from the Auto Alliance: Who’s watching out for auto cyber threats? The Auto-ISAC is. Automakers proactively joined together to establish an information sharing community to enhance cybersecurity awareness and collaboration across the global automotive industry. Find more here: http://bit.ly/2tZXzo2 **

KEEP CALM AND ENCRYPT EVERYTHING — IBM claims it has come up with a new approach to mainframe security technology that will allow businesses of all shapes and sizes to encrypt their customer data, potentially signaling a new chapter in the policy debate that has gripped Washington for years. “The last generation of mainframes did encryption very well and very fast, but not in bulk,” Ross Mauri, general manager of IBM's mainframe business, told The Washington Post. The key to the strategy is utilizing new IBM Z mainframe that can run 12 billion encrypted transactions per day, tapping artificial intelligence for cryptography to make sure communications are scrambled and unbreakable at the same level the U.S. government trusts to transmit classified information, according to Wired. "So for any type of transaction system we can now get the safety that we’re all after, which just hasn’t really been attainable up to this point,” said Caleb Barlow, vice president of threat intelligence at IBM Security.

UPGUARD STRIKES AGAIN — UpGuard has been on a spree of demonstrating how major companies —like Verizon (via a vendor) or Booz Allen Hamilton — have left customer data exposed to the public. On Monday, the firm struck again, this time revealing that Dow Jones left data on millions of customers exposed via a cloud configuration that allowed “semi-public access.” Said UpGuard: “The revelation of this cloud leak speaks to the sustained danger of process error as a cause of data insecurity, with improper security settings allowing the leakage of the sensitive information of millions of Dow Jones customers. The data exposed in this cloud leak could be exploited by malicious actors employing a number of attack vectors already known to have been successful in the past.” A spokesman for Dow Jones told The Hill, “This was due to an internal error, not a hack or attack. We have no evidence any of the over-exposed information was taken.”

BATTLING BOTNETS — Internet service providers cannot be expected to singlehandedly defeat the armies of infected devices, known as botnets, that have plagued the internet for years, the cyber coordinating group for telecom companies argued in a white paper published Monday. “It is a fallacy to believe that any single component of the internet ecosystem has the ability to mitigate the threat from botnets and other automated systems,” the Communications Sector Coordinating Council declared. “While ISPs, as infrastructure owners and operators, play an important role in this ecosystem, so do the manufacturers of devices, developers of software, system integrators, edge providers, cloud service providers, and others.”

Fighting botnets, which are armies of infected devices that hackers can use to overload websiteswith traffic, is a key priority for the Trump administration’s cyber agenda. But early drafts of the president’s cyber executive order caught flakfrom telecom companies for singling out their industry in the botnet provision. The new white paper, which surveys the landscape of anti-botnet technologies and suggests areas for future research, offered the group a chance to fight back against the perception that it should be the primary line of defense against botnets and the digital security crises they can create. Only through a “concerted effort of all members of this ecosystem,” the CSCC said, will the world be able to “address fully the threats from bots and botnets.”

TRANSATLANTICISM — A European Parliament delegation hit D.C. Monday and will be here throughout the week, discussing cybercrime and protecting sensitive personal data. The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will will meet with, among others, members of Congress and representatives from agencies like the Homeland Security, State and Justice departments. “Its objective is to obtain up-to-date information on the state of play and progress in the US on major topics” in the areas where the panel has jurisdiction.

TWEET OF THE DAY — A plea for cyber clarity!

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

— Laura Jehl has joined BakerHostetler as a partner member of the privacy and data protection team, the firm announced Monday. She previously served as co-leader of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton’s privacy and cybersecurity practice, and in the late 1990s and early 2000s led America Online’s response to numerous government investigations into privacy matters.

— Matthew McFadden will serve as CSRA’s cybersecurity service area director within its digital consulting group, the company announced Monday. He most recently worked as chief technologist for the company’s defense innovation cell.

 

[darth frosty]

Secretary of State Tillerson is "taking a little time off"

One thing that is being overlooked is the way Trump is gutting key departments and leaving them either woefully understaffed or putting his loyal lackeys in position.

 

[darth frosty]

And another one

 

[D'Evils]

 

[darth frosty]

 

[easy_b]

Picture worth 1001 words

 

[darth frosty]

State Department’s top UN envoy steps down: report
BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 08/27/17 05:54 PM EDT 123
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A pair of top State Department officials, including the lead envoy to the U.N., have announced they will leave their posts, Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.

Tracey Ann Jacobson, a career foreign service officer responsible for overseeing U.S. policy at international organizations including the U.N., told her staff on Friday that she will continue in her post until early October but did not specify why she was leaving, a U.S. official told Foreign Policy.

Her announcement comes as Trump is slated to speak in front of world leaders at the UN General Assembly in September.

Also on Friday, William Rivington Brownfield, the U.S. Assistance Secretary of State of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, told his department that he would leave by the end of September, according to the report.

Brownfield’s wife, Kristie Kenney, one of the most senior foreign service officers in the State Department, had announced her resignation four months earlier.

Their announcements follow a stream of other State Department departures since President Trump took office in January. Foreign policy professionals are either leaving on their own or being pushed out over growing frustrations with an administration that seeks to dramatically cut funding to the department’s budget - as much as 37 percent.

 

[EGO-TRIP]

They are not quite rats

they were fine working for Hilliary when she abandoned all the embassy people to die in Libya , gave despots countries weapons contracts if they made a donation to the Clinton Foundation , intervene in the trial of of the woman caught trying to smuggle 30+ children out of Haiti for a Pedophile sex /slave ring. fucking short sighted idiots !

 

[Ninja05]

Hmm. Tell us more. I'm interested, what else did Clinton do?

 

[sammyjax]

they were fine working for Hilliary when she abandoned all the embassy people to die in Libya , gave despots countries weapons contracts if they made a donation to the Clinton Foundation , intervene in the trial of of the woman caught trying to smuggle 30+ children out of Haiti for a Pedophile sex /slave ring. fucking short sighted idiots !

Holy shit how you been hiding this whole time lol

 

[EGO-TRIP]

Hmm. Tell us more. I'm interested, what else did Clinton do?

Hilliary , with help from others sold 20% of United States uranium to Russia . The only problem it was still underground the land owned by Clive Bundy and family that led to the Bundy ranch and Oregon standoff when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM ) DRUMMED UP CHARGES so they could take the land illegally and give it to the Russians......thats the real RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY !

 

[LordSinister]

Bullshit.

Quit spreading stupid ass lies.

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/

 

[Confucius]

Hilliary , with help from others sold 20% of United States uranium to Russia . The only problem it was still underground the land owned by Clive Bundy and family that led to the Bundy ranch and Oregon standoff when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM ) DRUMMED UP CHARGES so they could take the land illegally and give it to the Russians......thats the real RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY !

you must be a CAC

 

[EGO-TRIP]

snopes

Bullshit.

Quit spreading stupid ass lies.

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/

Snopes has been exposed as fake for a while now.

 

[EGO-TRIP]

you must be a CAC

the last refuge of a Bitch when they cant dispute something is name calling

 

[ViCiouS]

snopes

Snopes has been exposed as fake for a while now.

what about NY Times Newsweek Time WSJ?

 

[Confucius]

the last refuge of a Bitch when they cant dispute something is name calling

still doesn't negate the fact that you are a CAC

 

[EGO-TRIP]

what about NY Times Newsweek Time WSJ?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/...ssed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=1

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal
By JO BECKER and MIKE McINTIREAPRIL 23, 2015

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A Uranium One sign that points to a 35,000-acre ranch owned by John Christensen, near the town of Gillette, Wyo. Uranium One has the mining rights to Mr. Christensen’s property. Credit Matthew Staver for The New York Times
The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.

At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

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Frank Giustra, right, a mining financier, has donated $31.3 million to the foundation run by former President Bill Clinton, left. Credit Joaquin Sarmiento/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company’s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show.

The New York Times’s examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book “Clinton Cash.” Mr. Schweizer provided a preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting.

Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.

In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.” He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary. “To suggest the State Department, under then-Secretary Clinton, exerted undue influence in the U.S. government’s review of the sale of Uranium One is utterly baseless,” he added.

American political campaigns are barred from accepting foreign donations. But foreigners may give to foundations in the United States.