The Power of the Deep State

Timothy Birdnow

The Deep State claims another scalp.

According to Life Site News:

Thecampaignagainst assistant secretary of state Kevin Moley, and his senior advisor, Mari Stull, began shortly after he was called out of retirement to assume his responsibilities in April 2018. Emblematic of the poor state of the bureau before he arrived, when he asked for a comprehensive list of Chinese Communist–occupied UN positions, trust funds, and otherinfluencewithin international organizations, career staffers balked, took three months to respond, and turned in a single-page report.

Despite internal headwinds, Moley achieved an impressive legacy, including the most pro-life foreign policy the State Department has ever implemented. He put in place a strategy to curtail Chinese Communist influence at the UN, oversaw U.S. withdrawal from a "toxic" Human Rights Council and UNESCO, and de-funded the UN Relief and Works Agency. His leadership led to the reduction of overall U.S. assessments to the UN; penalizing UN agencies for violating whistleblower rules; and increasing transparency, through declassification, on reports of Palestinian "rights of return."

Resistance to Moley's policy and management reform was swift, including from his most senior foreign service officer (the principal deputy assistant, who occupied Moley's position in an acting capacity before he arrived). A source familiar with events told the Friday Fax that Moley put a stop to the senior staffer's practice of wheeling out the liquor every Friday around 3:30 p.m. to conduct "vespers" for bureau staff. He asked her to stop passing out fuzzy toys at senior staff meetings that included personnel from the Secretary of State's office. According to our source, Moley also rejected as unethical her personal promises to award positions to her favored career staffers, personnel who did not certify as top candidates.

Is it in possible to reform the snake pit in Washington? I really doubt it, as the Deep State is so entrenched and will fight anyone who tries to fix the problems.

Notice how the Chinese are at the epicenter of this? We made China into a superpower, and quizzlings in our own government continue to promote them.

The article continues:

The senior staffer quit the department voluntarily and moved to the Management office on the seventh floor, the same office responsible for responding to inquiries by members of Congress and for handling IG investigations. Soon after, several news outlets began attacking Moley and Stull, citing "anonymously" leaked grievances by a senior diplomat.

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and the late Elijah Cummings (D-MD) cited the news stories as reason for an IG investigation, ostensibly based on the existence of a "loyalty list" that Moley and Stull used to "retaliate" against the senior staffer and other personnel. No list was ever found, despite a year and a half of accusations and a full IG investigation, which waspublishedin October.

Instead, the IG report called for "corrective" action against Moley, claiming that the senior staffer and others left the bureau due to Moley and Stull's heavy-handed management style, a charge Moley and Stull flatly denied. The IG report cites "appearances," "concern," and "perception" of poor leadership in lieu of hard evidence for the claim. It acknowledges that Moley was within his purview in making personnel decisions.

Moley was awarded the Purple Heart and Navy Commendation Medal with V for valor in the Vietnam War. He served as U.S. ambassador to the UN in Geneva in the George W. Bush administration, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, and Vice Chairman of the President's Council on Management Improvement in the George H.W. Bush administration.

See how the combination of media, Democrats, and the bureaucracy combine to destroy someone who is bucking the system.

Washington has become a den of vipers, a place for every foul and unclean bird. One wonders how long it will be before it meets the same fate as Nineveh, or Sodom.

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