“The political appointee may have been new to government, but this was a ninja-level bureaucratic move, a deft humiliation of the career diplomats, who pride themselves on being in the room where it happens, who have made moral compromises and personal sacrifices galore, over decades, in exchange for being in the loop. She was telling us that this bargain no longer heled, that the Administration did not see us, to use the title of a book about the Foreign Service, as America’s Other Army. Steve Bannon had promised a ‘deconstruction of the administrative state,’ and this is what that looked like.”
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