A few disgruntled folks at the State Department have again run to the Washington Post to air their grievances — anonymously, of course. This time they’re not happy with Secretary Rice’s reorganization plan that reportedly doesn’t include rogue operators walking the halls of Foggy Bottom.
“Thrilled” at sticking to their boss, the elected President of the United States? But the Post story gets better. A paragraph later one of the anonymous officials claims that they’re really just professionals with no political axe to grind.
But apparently, as the Post piece reveals, going around the back of their immediate boss was not “offensive” to their collective conscience. What was “offensive” to them was the White House’s skeptical view of IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei, along with other “administration positions,” which had made “several” of them “embarrassed for the United States.” Thank you, Secretary Rice.
