http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102401429.html?hpid=topnewsAfter Review of Iraq Security, State Dept. Official Quits
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 24, 2007; 4:11 PM
Richard J. Griffin, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, resigned today after a scathing review of security in Iraq that criticized the supervision of private contractors there and recommended changes in the way diplomats are protected.
Griffin, a former Department of Veterans Affairs and Secret Service official who held the security job for two years, announced his departure this morning at a staff meeting. He is expected to leave office by Nov. 1.
In a memorandum to President Bush dated today, Griffin gave no reason for his departure, saying only that he would "move on to new challenges." Saying that Diplomatic Security (DS) agents "serve on the front lines of the Global War on Terror" Griffin wrote that the State Department could "not possibly carry out its foreign policy mission" without them....
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I've waiting to see who they threw to the wolves, and how low on the totem he was. Pretty small potatoes, smells like Condi is following the Abu Ghraib script to me.
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