Lawfare Archive: Turnover and Turmoil Inside the State Department

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🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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From September 7, 2019: This summer has been a tumultuous one inside the U.S. State Department. In August, the department’s Office of the Inspector General handed down a scathing report alleging political manipulation and abusive practices inside the department’s International Organization bureau—only one of a series of similar allegations. At the same time, a number of career State Department officials ranging from assistant secretaries to the rank-and-file have resigned due to alleged complaints and disagreements with Trump administration officials and policies.

To dig into these developments and consider what they might mean for the State Department’s present and future, Scott R. Anderson spoke with reporters Colum Lynch and Robbie Gramer of Foreign Policy magazine, and Lawfare’s Margaret Taylor, who is a fellow alumnus of the State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor and former Democratic Counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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1:07.3	archive for November 18th, 2023. Dozens of State Department employees
1:12.0	have signed at least three internal dissent memos expressing serious disagreements with the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza.
1:18.0	This week, more than 500 political appointees and staff members from across 40 government agencies
1:23.2	sent a letter to President Joe Biden protesting his support of Israel in the war.
1:27.0	For today's archive episode I picked an episode from September 7th 2019 in which Scott R. Anderson sat down with
1:34.4	Colm Lynch, Robbie Grahamer, and Margaret Taylor, to discuss the
1:37.9	resignations of a number of careers State Department officials,
1:40.8	through to alleged complaints and disagreements with Trump administration officials and policies. officials, International Organization I'm Scott I Anderson and this is the Lawfare Podcast for September 7th 2019.
2:05.4	This summer has been a tumultuous one inside the US State Department.
2:09.2	Earlier this month the Department's Office of the inspector general handed down a scathing report,
2:14.8	alleging political manipulation and abusive practices inside the department's internal organization
2:19.8	bureau, one of only a series of similar allegations.
2:23.0	At the same time, a number of career State Department officials
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