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November 27, 2017

More than 100 Career Diplomats Exodus State Department under Tillerson
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Back in Washington DC, more than one hundred senior Foreign Service
officers have left the State Department since President Trump took
office, in what appears to be a forced exodus carried out by Secretary
of State Rex Tillerson. Among those to have departed was the State
Department's chief of security, Bill Miller, who left after Tillerson
repeatedly refused to meet with him. Miller is one of the most powerful
people at the State Department. Yet he was reportedly forced to cite a
law requiring him to be allowed to speak with the Secretary of State
before Tillerson was willing to meet with him—for five minutes,
leading Miller to resign.


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