State Dept. senior management team resigns: report

Source: The Hill | January 26, 2017 | Rebecca Savransky

The State Department’s entire senior level of management has resigned less than a week into Donald Trump’s administration.

The resignations, reported by the The Washington Post, included Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s undersecretary for management who had served in the role for nine years.

Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, resigned as well, the Post reported.

It is not clear whether the officials were forced out by the incoming Trump administration, but the changes shook up Washington — where Trump’s approach to the foreign service had already raised eyebrows.

“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry, told The Post.

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All four had previously served presidents in both parties.

The exiting officials join a number of others who have departed since President Trump took office last week.

Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr retired, and director of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations Lydia Muniz left on Friday.

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    Knowing how leftward the State Dept has become, we’ll have to wait and see if that is good or bad. Some of these people are “lifers”. Once they get in, they don’t leave and once they get to certain levels, they feel t hey are unanswerable to anybody. We’ll see. I don’t know these names to know how significant this is, but we’ll see.

    Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem

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