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2019-11-27 Government

Foggy Bottom official describes frantic effort to save recalled Ukraine ambassador

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-27 02:06|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 >a career diplomat described by Reeker as "one of the foreign service great leaders."

That might even be true... Which shows how much the foreign service needs a refectoring.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-27 03:23|| 2019-11-27 03:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Save her for what?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-27 04:26|| 2019-11-27 04:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Term limits - they're not just for elected officials.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-27 07:27|| 2019-11-27 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 "Yovanovitch used a Soros tool to illegally monitor U.S. conservatives," By M. Dowling, Oct 26, 2019.
The State Department utilized a powerful Facebook-owned social media tracking tool linked to leftist billionaire George Soros to unlawfully monitor U.S conservative figures, journalists and persons with ties to Donald Trump, according to an agency source, Judicial Watch reported.
The source — a State Department veteran — identified Crowdtangle as the tool used to closely watch more than a dozen U.S. citizens, including the president’s son, personal attorney and popular television personalities such as Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, among others, Judicial Watch reported.
Disgraceful former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, an Obama embed, enlisted a Ukraine agency to conduct the unlawful monitoring using the search terms, Biden, Giuliani, Soros, and Yovanovitch, according to a Judicial Watch investigation.

Posted by b 2019-11-27 09:38|| 2019-11-27 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 "Reeker" - what came first? the name or the personality?

Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-27 10:48|| 2019-11-27 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Reduce the size of the mess by at least a factor of 10.

If somebody is released/fired from a job in the D.C. bureaucracy they can quickly get another job in a different sector of the bureaucracy. After all looking at D.C. rationally it is a COMPANY TOWN. It's just the COMPANY (no not the CIA) is the US Government.

Just like Amazon, Boeing and others are diversifying away from Company Towns - the US Government need to do the same. It's way past time to play musical chairs with the bureaucracy and move it all over the country. If some cogs get let go they can find replacement jobs with another Company just not the taxpayer's one. Let them compete in the open labor pool of useful careers!

Posted by 3dc 2019-11-27 13:16|| 2019-11-27 13:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Disperse them the way the Federal Reserve is dispersed... Dallas, Cincinnati, Richmond, Minneapolis etc

Posted by Lex 2019-11-27 13:18|| 2019-11-27 13:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Forbid the use of air-conditioning in Government buildings.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-27 13:23|| 2019-11-27 13:23|| Front Page Top

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