TheRef65 wrote:
Sanuk wrote:
I like Tillerson. He's tough, knows how to handle highly public jobs without seeking attention on himself. He's not particularly political so not someone trying to undermine the President for his own political future (cough*Clinton*cough).
In my view, one of Trump's good picks so of course his days are numbered.
I have to agree with you. I had a lot of reservations when he was announced but he has taken the job very seriously and seems open to discussion instead of just ignoring there is a great big world out there we need to work with.
Yeah, about that:
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WASHINGTON — Of all the State Department employees who might have been vulnerable in the staff reductions that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has initiated as he reshapes the department, the one person who seemed least likely to be a target was the chief of security, Bill A. Miller.
Republicans pilloried Hillary Clinton for what they claimed was her inadequate attention to security as secretary of state in the months before the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Congress even passed legislation mandating that the departmentÂ’s top security official have unrestricted access to the secretary of state.
But in his first nine months in office, Mr. Tillerson turned down repeated and sometimes urgent requests from the departmentÂ’s security staff to brief him, according to several former top officials in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Finally, Mr. Miller, the acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security, was forced to cite the lawÂ’s requirement that he be allowed to speak to Mr. Tillerson.
Mr. Miller got just five minutes with the secretary of state, the former officials said. Afterward, Mr. Miller, a career Foreign Service officer, was pushed out, joining a parade of dismissals and early retirements that has decimated the State DepartmentÂ’s senior ranks. Mr. Miller declined to comment.
The departures mark a new stage in the broken and increasingly contentious relationship between Mr. Tillerson and much of his departmentÂ’s work force. By last spring, interviews at the time suggested, the guarded optimism that greeted his arrival had given way to concern among diplomats about his aloofness and lack of communication. By the summer, the secretaryÂ’s focus on efficiency and reorganization over policy provoked off-the-record anger.
Now the estrangement is in the open, as diplomats going out the door make their feelings known and members of Congress raise questions about the impact of their leaving.
https://www.nytimes.com/...tment-tillerson.html
The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W
