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Home Front: Politix
Restructuring at State Department `botched,' retiree says
2006-06-06
A reorganization of the State Department offices that are leading the fight against weapons of mass destruction was badly managed and politicized, which led to a flight of experts with decades of knowledge, according to a new account by a veteran weapons expert.

Dean Rust, who watched the reorganization unfold, charges that its "botched implementation" led many career officers to leave and "will hamper the State Department's role at home and abroad for years to come."

The account by Rust, who left the department last September, appears in the upcoming issue of Arms Control Today magazine, published by the nonpartisan Arms Control Association. It's scheduled to be posted Tuesday on the group's Web site.
Posted by:ryuge

#8  #6 The Arms Control Association is supported by generous grants from the following foundations...

Damn Al Gore all to hell for inventing that Internet thingy!!!

/lefty
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2006-06-06 23:34  

#7  Yeah, "non partisan" is one of those terms that should automatically set off flashing lights. It's kinda like "non aligned"...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-06-06 14:12  

#6  The Arms Control Association is supported by generous grants from the following foundations:

Colombe Foundation
Ford Foundation
Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
New-Land Foundation
Ploughshares Fund
Prospect Hill Foundation
Public Welfare Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
Simons Foundation
Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust
Posted by: Pappy   2006-06-06 13:53  

#5  Any reorg of a State Dept. that couldn't admit Arafat ordered the execution of it's Sudan diplomats is a good reorg.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-06-06 11:45  

#4  The "official and others" spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation.

It seems there is still some dust under the carpet or hard to reach corners.
Posted by: SwissTex   2006-06-06 10:21  

#3  When a group from State declares itself "non-partisan", it means they couldn't decide whether to favor the Saudis, the Iranians, the French, or the Soviets.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-06-06 06:05  

#2  Got rid of all his liberal and communist pals did they? Anytime a group calls it's self "non partisan" a bit of digging will prove it is not to anyone other than a journalist.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-06-06 03:05  

#1  --Dean Rust, who watched the reorganization unfold, charges that its "botched implementation" led many career officers to leave and "will hamper the State Department's role at home and abroad for years to come."--

He says that like it's a bug.....
Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-06-06 01:05  

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