Mainecat Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 State Department Scraps Sanctions Office Source: foreignpolicy.com The Trump administration is three weeks late on Russia sanctions. But it’s killed the office that coordinates them. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson eliminated the Coordinator for Sanctions Policy office, which had been led by a veteran ambassador-rank diplomat with at least five staff, as part of an overhaul of the department, former diplomats and congressional sources told Foreign Policy. Instead, the role of coordinating U.S. sanctions across the State Department and other government agencies now falls to just one mid-level official — David Tessler, the deputy director of the Policy Planning Office. The Policy Planning Office, which previously operated as a small team providing strategic advice to the secretary but did not manage programs or initiatives, has grown in power under Tillerson’s “redesign” of the department. The sanctions office was dissolved after the administration missed a key Oct. 1 deadline to implement new penalties against Russia adopted by Congress in August. The move has reinforced concerns among both Democratic and Republican lawmakers that the Trump White House is mismanaging the State Department and undercutting the role of U.S. diplomacy. The “elimination of the sanctions coordinator appears to be part of the larger reorganization debacle underway at the State Department,” said Sean Bartlett, spokesman for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee........... Read more: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/26/state-department-scraps-sanctions-office/amp/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Maybe shits going on behind closed doors like the dems did things.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 so to be clear . a department shit the bed and did not get the job done congress needed done by a certain date . the whole department was shit caned and its duty's given to another department . OK got it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 This simply follows months of inaction on Russian sanctions by the trump administration. No surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 2 hours ago, Ez ryder said: so to be clear . a department shit the bed and did not get the job done congress needed done by a certain date . the whole department was shit caned and its duty's given to another department . OK got it . Imagine that, a government entity that is scrapped because it didn't do it's job. Why shouldn't this happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 4 hours ago, ActionfigureJoe said: This simply follows months of inaction on Russian sanctions by the trump administration. No surprise. why did we sell our uranium to a country that is such a threat ? was it because the 80s called and wanted there fouren policy back ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 44 minutes ago, Ez ryder said: why did we sell our uranium to a country that is such a threat ? was it because the 80s called and wanted there fouren policy back ? Why not? The uranium doesn’t leave the USA. It’s stays right here. We acquire foreign investment which employs Americans and feeds US manufacturing. What’s the problem with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 24 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said: Why not? The uranium doesn’t leave the USA. It’s stays right here. We acquire foreign investment which employs Americans and feeds US manufacturing. What’s the problem with that? keep believing that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 10 minutes ago, Ez ryder said: keep believing that That’s it? You’re faced with the facts and you shrink into that? Huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Just now, ActionfigureJoe said: That’s it? You’re faced with the facts and you shrink into that? Huh? facts? of Maddow facts ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 1 minute ago, Ez ryder said: facts? of Maddow facts ? You have no knowledge of the fact that the company has no license to send the uranium out of the country.... because you’re either too fucking lazy to dig into the story for yourself OR your a political shill. My thought is that you’re both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 5 hours ago, racer254 said: Imagine that, a government entity that is scrapped because it didn't do it's job. Why shouldn't this happen? 7 hours ago, Ez ryder said: so to be clear . a department shit the bed and did not get the job done congress needed done by a certain date . the whole department was shit caned and its duty's given to another department . OK got it . You both are aware when Tillerson’s took the job he eliminate most of his staff. That was before the new sanctions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 and they did not do there job and were shit canned . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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