Geopolitics.co 2-18-17… “MSM Furious Over Continued Purging at the US State Dep’t”

This goes right along with the prior post. Seems to explain in more detail what some of the “problems” are with keeping the “old” of the US State Department and why the transition to the Trump administration seems so “horrible” to the MSM.

But during the past several years, many of us have “waked up” to the under the table foreign deals that have meant US secret involvement and funding of “foreign government overthrow” operations, like Ukraine (remember, Victoria “F— the EU” Nuland?), Syria, Libya, etc., etc., etc. In my view, it’s about time that this was brought to an end. And it does appear the the current administration is doing just that. We shall see.

“…the new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson… through his lieutenants, the holdovers are advised to vacate the 7th floor as their services are no longer needed which, as expected, the opposition party disguising as the mainstream media has been so furious about, as if they know better than the one in charge.

“Who created the instability in the first place? Of course, the fake news media won’t answer that. They would rather focus more on the highly “irresponsible decision” of the new state secretary… “You can’t do foreign policy by sitting in the White House, just out of your back pocket,” explains Tom Countryman, Former Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation who was let go earlier this month.

“Under the previous administrations, the State Department has been notorious for bungling down the ongoing peace negotiation efforts before any workable peace agreement is reached with countries subjected to “regime change” operations by the CIA.

“It turned out that the likes of Victoria Nuland were not taking their cue from Obama, but from Dick Cheney. She has since resigned to avoid embarrassment of being kicked out of office.”

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MSM Furious Over Continued Purging at the US State Dep’t

There’s an ongoing removal of the remnants of the previous administrations, i.e. the permanent holdovers of the Deep State, by the new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Through his lieutenants, the holdovers are advised to vacate the 7^th floor as their services are no longer needed which, as expected, the opposition party disguising as the mainstream media has been so furious about, as if they know better than the one in charge.

These career professionals and so-called “diplomatic experts” are now being “moved aside.”

CBSNews reports, [Read article here]

Who created the instability in the first place?

Of course, the fake news media won’t answer that. They would rather focus more on the highly “irresponsible decision” of the new state secretary.

“It is irresponsible to let qualified, nonpartisan, experienced people go before you have any idea of their replacement. You can’t do foreign policy by sitting in the White House, just out of your back pocket,” explains Tom Countryman, Former Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation who was let go earlier this month.

Countryman worries that the White House is displaying an intent not to rely on the State Department for foreign policy, in that…

“…no one will be in place to challenge the edicts drawn up in the Oval Office.”

There you go, the State Department also want to make decisions other than the policies set forth by the elected president. Very democratic, indeed.

Under the previous administrations, the State Department has been notorious for bungling down the ongoing peace negotiation efforts before any workable peace agreement is reached with countries subjected to “regime change” operations by the CIA.

This has caused a lot of flip-flopping positions during the Obama administration with regards to Syria,

“The contacts continue, but every time we agree on something, the US side backtracks from the agreements that have already been reached,” Lavrov said.
U.S. Attacks Avoid Al Nusra, Talks are Fruitless Gatherings | FM Sergie Lavrov

… which cost some dizzying foreign trips for Sec. John Kerry – not that he doesn’t like it. But he was caught to have said on a live mic that he, too, is for the continued arming of the “moderate rebels,” and the departure of Syrian President Assad, in stark contrast to everything he said to his Russian counterpart FM Lavrov.

It turned out that the likes of Victoria Nuland were not taking their cue from Obama, but from Dick Cheney. She has since resigned to avoid embarrassment of being kicked out of office.

Just like the intelligence community, there are people in the State Department who stay irrespective of whoever sits in the White House. These are the same people on the 7th floor of the State Department that is now being advised to disappear before the secretary returns from Europe.

For disagreeing [with] all his actions, and for telling different stories other than what he is actually doing, Donald Trump is not calling [is calling] the media as the enemy of the people.

[Kp note: sorry, that sentence makes no sense to me. I suggest this, “For disagreeing with all his actions, and for telling different stories other than what he is actually doing, Donald Trump is calling the media as the enemy of the people.”]

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017

Earlier, there were reports of massive purging of political appointees to the department.

• Fake News Media Protesting the Mass Removal of US State Dep’t Diplomats & Senior Staff