Tillerson is considering closing the State Dept.'s entire cyber office.

[sunonmars]

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2017/07/18/top-state-cyber-official-to-exit-leaving-myriad-questions-221386

But Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is considering closing the cyber office or merging it with another office and downgrading the cyber coordinator’s rank, according to a source familiar with internal planning. “It’s a step back from everything done over the last ten years,” said the source, who added that Tillerson was also considering “limiting the number of people who work on cybersecurity” at State. “They basically gave [Painter] two weeks notice,” the source told MC. “It’s clear they’re thinking about reorganizing it. … Clearly they don’t think it’s that important.” A State Department spokesman did not provide a comment on the fate of the cyber office. Painter’s deputy, Michele Markoff, is also an experienced cyber diplomat. When MC reached her by phone, she declined to comment on her status. “If she leaves as well,” Healey said, “it might take State years to rebuild.”

Cyber policy experts urged Tillerson not to eliminate State’s dedicated cyber mission. Doing so “would mean the United States would be the only major country without a lead diplomat to discuss cyber norms and trying to reduce the ever-escalating cyberattacks we see around the world,” Healey said. The U.S. was the first country to create a high-level cyber diplomat role, and since then dozens of other countries have followed suit. “It is not just a shame if the U.S. were to surrender that leadership, but would mean the future internet will have more Russian and Chinese characteristics.”

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Tillerson is effectively doing Putins work for him.

This must be stopped.

[Initech]

1. This is fucking scary!

Yeah let's work with the Russians and give them backdoor access to our voting machines. Move along, nothing to see here!

[Chasstev365]

2. Could this whole thing be any more obvious?

Robert Mueller needs to work double time before it's too late!

[sunonmars]

3. it will take decades to recover from this epic eff up of a presidency.

[Special Counsel]

4. Traitors all. Hope intel community finds a way

to get around this treasonous crowd.

[spanone]

5. why not? no one has ever tried to meddle in our system...just a big waste of money

HOLY FUCK

[Zoonart]

6. Not to mention hacking our nuclear power plants.

[dalton99a]

7. "Donald, we'll take good care of your State Department"

"Let Moscow handle it"

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Putin has ordered them to do this. America is done, over, gone.

These no good fucking TRAITORS are supported by half of the voting public.

Therefore, we cant survive.

[sellitman]

9. Relax everyone

Trump is just fertilizing the field for his next election.

[ProudLib72]

10. Rex "There's no oil in cyber space" Tillerson

needs to have his swamp drained... permanently.

[AngryAmish]

11. Why do you need a cyber office when you have Barron?

He is great with the cyber.