A second Trump term and an improved Congress could begin to enact salutary reforms to our foreign policy institutions, personnel systems, and operations. Cultural transformation of the clerisy is an undertaking for generations.
Joseph Duggan - November 29th, 2019
Consumers of the corporate leftist media’s political coverage have heard a drumbeat of reports that an honorable, highly capable, long-serving diplomat recently was driven from office following a vicious, conspiracy-driven smear campaign by dishonest, shameless partisans who leaked misleading stories to the media, generally abused power, and disregarded the constitutional chain of authority.
What the public hasn’t heard is that the diplomat’s name is Kevin Moley.
Everyone has heard about Marie Yovanovitch, the career foreign service officer removed from her post in May as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. According to the Constitution, all ambassadors and senior state department officials serve at the pleasure of the president. Foreign service officers rotate between jobs and seldom stay in one post for more than two or three years. Yovanovitch, an appointee of President Barack Obama, was overdue for reassignment. She served longer as ambassador to Ukraine—almost three full years—than she did as ambassador to Armenia as an appointee of President George W. Bush retained in office by President Obama.
Yovanovitch and her supporters allege that some allies of President Trump made malicious remarks about her to hasten her reassignment. Malicious gossip against anyone is always morally wrong, but its existence is not exactly front-page news. It is commonplace in the swamp, whatever the partisan leanings of the participants, and it’s especially common in its swampiest precinct, the aptly named Foggy Bottom...
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This just might be the most important thing you have read in a long while. Points up what my article Blood on Their Hands is really all about currently.
We will never again be truly FREE people for so long as we continue to abide the Marxist Income Tax Code and the IRS!