BREAKING: The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned.

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90. I know it blows a hole in the story but

These folks, as is custom, all handed in letters of resignation when the new President was sworn in. It is then up to the incoming Secretary to decide which he/she will accept. All of these people were told that they were no longer needed in their job.

Amended for link, from CNN:

Patrick Kennedy, who served for nine years as the undersecretary for management, Assistant Secretaries for Administration and Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Joyce Anne Barr, and Ambassador Gentry Smith, director of the Office for Foreign Missions, were sent letters by the White House that their service was no longer required, the sources told CNN.
All four, career officers serving in positions appointed by the President, submitted letters of resignation per tradition at the beginning of a new administration.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/top-state-department-officials-asked-to-leave-by-trump-administration/index.html