This is just breaking on CNN, but it looks like Tillerson is beginning a purge of seasoned hands at State.
“Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has reassigned a majority of the staff meant to work most closely with the top US diplomat in what career officials at the State Department fear is the start of a major reorganization.”
And of course he does not even do it himself…
“While Tillerson was on his first overseas trip at the G20 in Bonn, Germany, his aides told the entire staff in the offices of the deputy secretary of state for management and resources and the State Department counselor that their current assignments were prematurely coming to an end, according to senior aides.”
This seems like a really, really bad idea for someone who has no experience in either government or diplomacy, particularly with the way things are going at the moment for US international relations.
It almost seems like everything this crew is doing is intended to isolate and weaken the US. Seems like a crazy conspiracy theory to suggest that, but why would a complete novice reassign many of the senior career personnel who could insure that his agency runs properly? The Trump Admin seems so obsessed with the taint of working with the Obama Admin that anyone in a senior position in the Federal bureaucracy is suspect, even people who have made their careers there long before Obama.
This is not a good move and makes me even more nervous about the way things are going.