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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsState Dept. shutters sanctions office:
The State Department shuttered an office that oversees sanctions policy, even as the Donald Trump administration faces criticism from lawmakers over its handling of new economic penalties against Russia.
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 Tillersons 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.
more:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/26/state-department-scraps-sanctions-office/amp/
More brazen by the minute. No worries atall about who might say what about this. NONE.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)That would seem to ease the way to amp up military confrontations with No Korea and Iran, and give Russia a free pass to continue to escalate their cyber warfare attacks on the country with Trump's consent.
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FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)Trump now rules over the Congress and Constitution?
BarbD
(1,193 posts)What should we call our new dictator?
SunSeeker
(51,724 posts)Gothmog
(145,596 posts)They fear the pee tape