In what might possibly be an attempt to relive the success of Hillary Clinton’s “Russian reset,” the State Department recently awarded a $22,116 contract for “Red Switch Equipment.” Which sounds a lot like the device Clinton famously presented to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in 2009 to “reset” relations with Russia.
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The devices are manufactured by Cisco under the pseudonym “2-port Clear Channel T3/E3 Shared Port Adapter.”
To prevent embarrassing mishaps such as the one that took place with Clinton and Lavrov where the Russian word for “overcharged” was used on the button instead of “reset,” the State Department might want to pick up a Russian-English dictionary.
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The documents indicate the State Department ordered four of the switches. So maybe for use in Iraq, Syria, Iran, and, thinking ahead, Afghanistan?
It is unclear why the order was limited to four.
