Despite Blackwater, State Officials Get Promotions

[sabra]

Source: ABC News Blotter

Even as she accepted the resignation of State's security chief Tuesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice quietly promoted two senior staffers who directly oversaw controversial Blackwater security operations, sources tell ABC News.

Justine Sincavage has been serving as director of the Overseas Protection Operation (OPO), which has direct responsibility for all State Department security contracts for Iraq and Afghanistan. That includes overseeing Blackwater, which has won more than $1 billion in security work from the State Department.

According to internal State Department documents, Sincavage was promoted Tuesday. Sincavage's predecessor as OPO director, Kevin Barry, was also promoted, the documents show.

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Current and former officials were outraged.

"It is ironic; on the day the assistant secretary for DSS resigns, the two people with oversight responsibility for the program get promoted," said one current State Department official who asked not to be named.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/10/despite-blackwa.html

[maddezmom]

1. not surprising for this corrupt admin

:eyes: Is there anyone there that isn't corrupt?

[olddad56]

2. probably not anyone who makes decisions

[Acadia Blue]

3. Bush rewards LOYALTY not doing the job correctly. These

pigs are destroying everything.

[stubtoe]

4. And the junta continues to solidify.

:scared:

[tom_paine]

5. In Bush's Amerika and Hitler's Germany, promotion policy is the same

Loyal to Party and Fuhrer = promoted

doing the job honestly and not assisting with Bushie fraud = harassment and firing

[benld74]

6. Rising to their level of incompetance, and some go beyond that

[tanyev]

7. Can a Medal of Freedom be far behind?