State Dept’s Tillerson is doing his best “Chip Diller” impression while telling everyone “remain calm, all is well” as people question his belief that it could take up to a year or more to streamline and revamp the State Dept while offices sit empty, memos pile up and paperwork falls behind. – PB/TK
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Empty State Department offices sap morale, some staffers say – By Tracy Wilkerson / Aug 4 2017
For four years, Ira N. Forman served as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, a State Department post in which he advocated on behalf of Jewish communities at risk around the globe.
He resigned, as required for political appointees, on Jan. 20, the day President Trump took office. But six months later, Forman and his staff have not been replaced.
“All the expertise has frittered away,” Forman said.
His is one of scores of empty offices in a demoralized State Department, where critics say a shortage of diplomats, analysts and bureaucrats is weakening the foreign policy mission and hurting efforts to project American values abroad.
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