State IG: Trump Appointees Targeted Career Staff For 'Deep State' Disloyalty
Source: TPM
August 15, 2019 4:26 pm
Top political appointees at the State Department harassed career staffers whom they suspected were members of the supposed deep state or were purportedly disloyal to the Trump administrations goals, according to a new report from the departments inspector general.
The report focuses on two political appointees in States Bureau of International Organization Affairs, which handles U.S. policy at the United Nations and other multinational bodies.
Assistant secretary Kevin Moley and senior adviser Mari Stull are named in the report as being behind much of the chaos. The report details multiple incidents in which Stull allegedly retaliated against State Department employees.
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Career employees told the IG that Stull referred to them as Obama holdovers, traitors, or disloyal at other points, focusing on allegations that she retaliated against federal workers for their personal political beliefs..................................
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/state-ig-trump-appointee-called-own-staffers-members-of-deep-state
I can't imagine working under these conditions!
Good longer article for TPM--also the report is at the link.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Nixon kept an enemies list too, remember?
the minute Kellyann mentioned they were going to "take names", way back when they were all flush with victory after the election..the minute she said that was a huge "oh-oh" minute.
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)riversedge
(70,186 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)breaking over what this Misadministration has done to the Department of State.
And what it is doing to the career federal workforce!
Javaman
(62,517 posts)these idiots act as if they are going to have their jobs for life.
perhaps, they know something we don't...