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Originally Posted by schooner
I was checking into this thread a little at work today and then came in tonight. See that the conversation has moved on. Is it not a really big deal that the senior management of the state department has left? You know the people that actually know how to do their job when it comes to foreign affairs.
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The trickle before the flood probably.
People tend to forget that the civil service - the ordinary workaday civil servants whose careers span multiple changes in leadership - actually wield a lot of power if they act en masse. I would expect, and hope, we'll see more of this as Trump tries to clamp down on more and more departments.