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riversedge

(70,186 posts)
Thu Aug 15, 2019, 08:22 PM Aug 2019

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 administration’s goals, according to a new report from the department’s inspector general.



The report focuses on two political appointees in State’s 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.
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State IG: Trump Appointees Targeted Career Staff For 'Deep State' Disloyalty (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2019 OP
Let the lawsuits begin. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2019 #1
And follow up with iron handed penalties- or it's all meaningless... mpcamb Aug 2019 #2
agree. Hit them where it hurts--in the wallet! riversedge Aug 2019 #5
My heart is literally BlueMTexpat Aug 2019 #3
what concerns me about this is... Javaman Aug 2019 #4

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
1. Let the lawsuits begin.
Thu Aug 15, 2019, 08:48 PM
Aug 2019

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.

BlueMTexpat

(15,366 posts)
3. My heart is literally
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 06:53 AM
Aug 2019

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)
4. what concerns me about this is...
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 08:27 AM
Aug 2019

these idiots act as if they are going to have their jobs for life.

perhaps, they know something we don't...

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