Senior State Department lawyer stepping down. Trump "USA" hats reduced from $40 to $39.99

[Miles Archer]

A senior State Department lawyer, Todd Buchwald, is stepping down in the coming weeks, joining scores of career civil and foreign service officers fleeing an administration that critics say has diminished the standing of U.S. diplomacy, according to friends and colleagues.

The high-level departure comes weeks after the State Department decided to downgrade the Office of Global Criminal Justice, which Buchwald led from December 2015 through the end of July 2017. After being forced from that job, he was reassigned to the Office of the Legal Advisor, where he had previously worked for most of his career at the State Department.

Buchwald’s imminent resignation follows last week’s exodus of three other top career diplomats who oversee the department’s policies on Europe, the United Nations, and narcotics and law enforcement respectively. The departures have reinforced concerns about the State Department’s ability to retain some of its most experienced and senior diplomats and lawyers.

One former State Department attorney described Buchwald as “possibly the best lawyer in State right now and one of the most senior.” His departure, the source said, is “a huge loss for the department.” It is also likely to have knock-on effects, undercutting the department’s ability to recruit new talent. The former official, who now teaches law at a major university, says he cautions his brightest students with an interest in public services about the perils of serving the State Department in this political climate.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/30/with-departure-of-top-lawyer-state-department-exodus-continues/

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1. K & R for visibility. Making America an international outlier

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2. Let it be known: The GOP's ultimate goal is America's isolation.

That's why Alex Jones and his ilk are going after "the globalists". Isolation isn't good for anyone, and it won't end well.