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Tillerson's aides are leaking to Politico
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:02 pm
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:02 pm
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quote:A good leak from Mattis' people too:
President Donald Trump this week abruptly dropped the nation's commitment to a two-state solution for Middle East peace — without reviewing the specifics of his new strategy with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
State Department officials and Tillerson's top aides learned about the president's comments in real time, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Tillerson himself was in the air when Trump announced the change in the longstanding U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the White House, there was little thought about notifying the nation's top diplomat because, as one senior staffer put it, "everyone knows Jared [Kushner] is running point on the Israel stuff."
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Tillerson, meanwhile, is privately expressing his own dissatisfaction that the administration has reneged on its promise to allow him to pick ambassadors, grievances that are now spilling out into public view ahead of any official announcements.
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The ambassadors were not chosen for their diplomatic or foreign policy experience, this person said. "They are political types and donors, the usual suspects for ambassadors," this person said. "The ambassadors are not ‘drain the swamp’ kind of people."
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“He said, ‘You’ve got to get Rex [Tillerson] over the finish line for me,” one GOP senate staffer recalled, “because Flynn is crazy.”
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:06 pm to Iosh
quote:Interested in any detail here. Ambassadors to our western and key partners are typically, almost as a rule, top donors and friends. There's a reason for this. They don't matter as much. Our connections are so deep in business, culture, and government that communication from the lowest rung of travel agency all the way up to the president (and his counterparts) is pretty routine.
The ambassadors were not chosen for their diplomatic or foreign policy experience, this person said. "They are political types and donors, the usual suspects for ambassadors," this person said. "The ambassadors are not ‘drain the swamp’ kind of people."
Career diplomats with the rank of ambassador go to places that actually require regional expertise at that level.
This post was edited on 2/17/17 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:06 pm to Iosh
Well, there is nothing good about this except maybe that Kushner is shadow Secretary of State.
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:07 pm to Iosh
Flynn was a bad egg. I'm glad he's out.
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:07 pm to Navytiger74
I'm interested to see who gets the Baltic appointments
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:08 pm to Iosh
quote:lol. When mentioning regional expertise I thought of mentioning Africa and the Baltic States as examples, but specifically edited them out.
I'm interested to see who gets the Baltic appointments
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:08 pm to Iosh
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Tillerson, meanwhile, is privately expressing his own dissatisfaction
In other words, getting his story out to the press by telling his aides to leak news.
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:10 pm to Navytiger74
Probably not even going to appoint ambassadors to the Baltic states considering they're going to be part of Russia soon anyway.
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:14 pm to Iosh
A+ in Creative Writing, what the Left is made of
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:40 pm to Iosh
The title is such BS, an obvious hit piece of lies.
Trump ignores 'the grown-ups' in his Cabinet
No one ever cites Politico for fake news hackery because everyone knows they are biased.
Trump ignores 'the grown-ups' in his Cabinet
No one ever cites Politico for fake news hackery because everyone knows they are biased.
This post was edited on 2/17/17 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:47 pm to cajunangelle
Did you even watch the press conference. He said he was in favor of a two or one state solution whichever one could bring peace. I watched every minute of that shite. Fake Fricking News.
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:50 pm to Iosh
What do ambassadors do..honestly?
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:52 pm to golfntiger32
That's what I thought I heard too. Thanks for posting. I would have, but was unsure. Lots of supposition in this article, but that's are for the course, lately.
Posted on 2/17/17 at 8:53 pm to Vacherie Saint
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What do ambassadors do..honestly?
Play dumb when the CIA or the State Dept Intel people get caught with their hand in the cookie jar in the host country.
Posted on 2/17/17 at 9:15 pm to Iosh
There are already 2 states in palestine
Posted on 2/18/17 at 4:46 am to CavalryAg07
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What do ambassadors do..honestly?
In most countries not much.
Don't forget though, that our Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, as Ron Paul says in the video, gave Iraq a Green light to attack Kuwait. That has led to decades of disaster for the United States.
When I saw the big hoo-rah over Bush 41 at the Super Bowl I wanted to vomit.
Ron Paul lays it out.
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