State Department head of diplomatic security resigns

[n2doc]

Source: Washington Post

The head of the State Department’s diplomatic security bureau has resigned and will leave his post on Thursday, leaving the two top positions vacant for the foreseeable future in the bureau in charge of embassy security around the world.

Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Bill Miller announced his resignation and retirement from the State Department on July 19 in a note to staff, which I obtained. His last day of service will be July 27. Miller has been the top official in the Diplomatic Security Service since January, when the Senate-confirmed assistant secretary Gregory Starr was asked to resign.

Starr had been singled out by Republicans during the investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Starr was asked to resign after President Trump’s inauguration, along with a host of other senior State Department officials. This is common at the beginning of a new administration, although traditionally officials are not pushed out until replacements are found.

Miller, whose official title was principal deputy assistant secretary of state and director of the Diplomatic Security Service, resigned voluntarily and was not asked to resign or fired, a senior State Department official told me. He has been a member of the Diplomatic Security Service since 1987.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/07/26/state-department-head-of-diplomatic-security-resigns/

[Pachamama]

1. This is a really, really bad sign....

I think there is so much bad going on and this is just the beginning....

[Achilleaze]

2. "I've seen all the stupid, belligerent, whackdoodle, treasonous republican shit I can take."

INNER THOUGHTS OF STATE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES POSSESSED OF HONESTY, HONOR, AND PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL INTEGRITY*

* These channeled Inner Thoughts courtesy of the Martians recently exposed to public scrutiny by republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher.

[dalton99a]

3. There are plenty of qualified replacements from Moscow

[bronxiteforever]

12. I am Laughing and crying at your post at the same time!

It's freaking accurate!

[Leghorn21]

4. Boy, they can't get outta that shithole fast enough, can they?? 24-hour notice, and then,

buh bye, Bill! GONE

More on Bill:

Bill A. Miller currently serves as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security. He was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security and Director of the Diplomatic Security Service on April 14, 2014.

A member of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service since 1987, Bill Miller is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. Mr. Miller’s previous assignment was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for High Threat Posts in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.

His last overseas assignment was a three-year posting as Regional Security Officer at the U.S. Mission in Cairo, Egypt. For his leadership in guiding the U.S. Government security response to the revolutionary events of the “Arab Spring” in Egypt, Mr. Miller was awarded the Department’s Superior Honor Award.

[Blue_Adept]

6. Article says notice given on 7/19

So he gave a mostly standard two weeks notice.

[Leghorn21]

7. Thank you - I stand corrected, Blue - nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Not much left of the State Department.

Tillerson hates the job and he isn't going to last. He is on vacation right now. The place is full of empty offices.

Lights are on but no one is there.

[Achilleaze]

8. Thus, America is highly vulnerable. Thanks to the KGOP White House & Congress

republicans are making it clear: they are going to continue to piss away 240+ years of the noble American experiment in democracy, and in our foundational respect toward all human beings: "we hold these truths as self-evident, that all men (and women) are created equal, etc."

republicans are choosing their party and its russian backers over the people of the USA. In so doing, they are leaving America - via gaping emptiness at the State Dept., FEMA, Coast Guard, and other key agencies - open to attack, defeat, and fascist subjugation.

Heinous. Vile. Execrable.

[potone]

9. I agree.

This is very worrying. We can't afford to be without the training, knowledge and experience of career professionals in our civil service, especially when the agencies will be headed up with Trump appointees. But who can blame them for leaving? I can't. There is only so much demoralization, abuse and crazy behavior that anyone can be expected to put up with.

[UpInArms]

10. Uhhh ... Benghazi 2.0?

3.. 2.. 1

[yuiyoshida]

11. I WOULD love to see a whole bunch of department heads

in the US government resign and LEAVE THIS entire mess to TRUMP who can't get anyone to work for him.

[populistdriven]

14. chickens coming home to roost...

[NCjack]

13. Another presidential appointed position is becoming available. Currently,

Trump has about 85% of presidential appointees unfilled, mainly because he has NOT nominated many for Senate confirmation. Wonder what's going on? Could it be that Trump is rolling the dice that Sen. McConnell will close the current senate session, thus making it possible for Trump to fill-up his administration with recess appointments? Maybe that is why the Senate Majority Leader plans to keep the Senate working through the summer. That would be a huge swing in getting a Trump responsive government. 85% by recess appointment and loyal to the Orange Turd.

[Beacool]

15. Everything Trump touches turns to caca.

The guy is an ignorant lowlife who would be nothing more than a used car salesman if his father hadn't been wealthy. What the heck does he know about governing????? Having as advisors his family of grifters and a POS like Bannon doesn't help matters.

We are governed by a kakistocracy.