re: The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned

This idiot is still awaiting an answer from the rocket scientist on page 1

love it. maybe we can get some real talent in charge over there.

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The town needs an enema, and if they want to do a voluntary expel, God bless them.

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This right here. Gets the moles out without the bad optics of Trump having to apply this...

I am fricking exhausted from all this winning. What a week!

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These people have been in the State Department for many years

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Yeah we needed this douche nugget to stay around.

LINK

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What's wrong with him?

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I guess links are confusing.

Benghazi affair[edit]

Kennedy's role in diplomatic security decisions has come under scrutiny from politicians since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi in 2012. Kennedy testified to the House Oversight Committee on October 10, 2012, about the death of Chris Stevens.[5] His position was that after the October 2011 fall of Gaddafi, the government of Libya was in flux, and that Stevens first arrived in Benghazi "during the height of the revolution", which occurred between February 17 and October 23, 2011, "when the city was the heart of the opposition to Colonel Qadhafi and the rebels there were fighting for their lives." At that time he was Special Representative to the National Transitional Council. Stevens returned to Libya as Ambassador in June 2012, and was killed on September 11 of that year.

“ Ambassador Stevens understood that the State Department must operate in many places where the U.S. military cannot or does not, where there are no other boots on the ground, where there are serious threats to our security. And he understood that the new Libya was being born in Benghazi and that it was critical that the United States have an active presence there. That is why Ambassador Stevens stayed in Benghazi during those difficult days. And it’s why he kept returning as the Libyan people began their difficult transition to democracy. He knew his mission was vital to U.S. interests and values, and was an investment that would pay off in a strong partnership with a free Libya. ”

The Republican minority on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has alleged that Kennedy, as Under Secretary for Management, failed to approve requests for additional security in Benghazi and Tripoli, and failed to implement recommendations regarding high-risk diplomatic posts that had been issued after the bombings of embassies in 1998.[6] In fact, the facility was classified as a U.S. Special Mission, which was then a novel category,[7] that required a waiver which "legally allowed the CIA annex to be housed in a location about one mile from the U.S. special mission."[8]

Investigation of the ambassador to Belgium[edit]

On June 10, 2013, CBS News reported that a memo from an official in the State Department inspector general’s office alleged that the then-current ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, was ditching his security detail to engage prostitutes and to allegedly solicit sex with children, and further alleged that Patrick F. Kennedy had killed the original investigation in order to protect Ambassador Gutman and maybe others.[9] On June 11, 2013, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed that the allegation regarding Kennedy was under active investigation by an independent inspector general.[10][11][12] On June 21, 2013, the White House announced Denise Bauer as the new nominee to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Belgium.

Hillary Clinton email investigation[edit]

On October 17, 2016, the FBI released interviews related to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the interviews alleges that Patrick F. Kennedy "pressured" the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to declassify an email from Hillary Clinton's private server in exchange for a "quid pro quo" of placing more agents in certain countries.[13][14] The FBI stated that the email's classification status was re-reviewed and remained unchanged and denied quid pro quo accusations. The State Department called the allegations "inaccurate" and maintained that Kennedy was trying to "understand" the FBI's classification process.[13]

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unds like he is retirement age

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Correct.

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Kennedy will retire from the foreign service at the end of the month, officials said. The other officials could be given assignments elsewhere in the foreign service.

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Keep melting.


*you sound scared. Are you alright?*

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Of course this idiot board believes this is a good thing. Christ help you all.

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I know, right?

I saw the story and thought about posting it - then I realized the board would just reflexively say it's terrific news.

Trump could butt frick a corpse at this point and Trumpkins would applaud and scream "look at how he's making those libtards melt! He's totally owning them! 3D chess! MAGA"