Secretary of State Rex Tillerson continues to gut the State Department.

Remember who you work for.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

According to a Friday night report in the The New York Times, Tillerson has not only frozen hiring and failed to nominate people to the majority of the department�s politically-appointed positions � he�s also engaged in what appears to be an intentional campaign to push out as many career diplomats as possible. 

�[Tillerson�s] small cadre of aides have fired some diplomats and gotten others to resign by refusing them the assignments they wanted or taking away their duties altogether,� the Times report states. �Among those fired or sidelined were most of the top African-American and Latino diplomats, as well as many women, difficult losses in a department that has long struggled with diversity.� 

Among the methods used to push out senior diplomats is by forcing them to undertake menial tasks under Tillerson�s presidentially-directed order to accelerate Freedom of Information Act requests (which are currently backlogged). The task has required every department in the bureau to contribute. As a result, �midlevel employees and diplomats � including some just returning from high-level or difficult overseas assignments � to spend months performing mind-numbing clerical functions beside unpaid interns.� 

�The United States is at the center of every crisis around the world, and you simply cannot be effective if you don�t have assistant secretaries and ambassadors in place,� R. Nicholas Burns, a retired career diplomat who served as under secretary of state during George W. Bush�s adminsitration, told the Times. �It shows a disdain for diplomacy.� 

The report notes that Tillerson still has not nominated an assistant secretary for East Asia or an amabssador to South Korea � two positions that are integral to finding a diplomatic solution to President Donald Trump�s continually escalating feud with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

One former ambassador said that either the Trump Administration does not believe that America should continue to be a world leader or else they are simply incompetent.

Or else they could simply be doing exactly what their Russian puppet masters have directed them to do.