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2017-08-09 Government

T-Rex contracted survey reveals many at Foggy Bottom don't know WTF their job is

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-09 07:43|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 How might this sound ?

The safety and security of the United States of America and it's citizens through the cultivation of international diplomacy and dialogue.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-09 08:01|| 2017-08-09 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Might try this Mission Statement Generator.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-08-09 08:08|| 2017-08-09 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, the value of an Ivy League education.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-09 08:25|| 2017-08-09 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Their mission has been intentionally muddled for decades. It gives them a license to do virtually anything they wish.

They've failed miserably at diplomacy, just as the CIA has failed miserably at counter-proliferation of nuclear weapons. But I digress. I give you our ever-expanding tea cart of endless wars as an example of DoS failure. But how can one pick winners and losers if their is no contest ?

I'll wager 90 days into his job, Tillerson was convinced he'd inherited a fecal sandwich.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-09 08:31|| 2017-08-09 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 intentionally muddled

BINGO!! We have a winner!!

If you have a definite mission/goal it is too easy to identify failure and assign blame. That is the nightmare of any bureaucrat.

Posted by AlanC 2017-08-09 08:36|| 2017-08-09 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 "To create a sinecure you cannot get sacked from until retirement."

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-08-09 09:39|| 2017-08-09 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 At home we investigate those American citizens applying for passports to make sure they aren't criminals or terrorists, and if so, process them quickly; we interface with embassy staffs on American soil.

Abroad we investigate those applying for visas to make sure they aren't criminals or terrorists, and if so, process them quickly; we provide aid and advice to American citizens who find themselves in difficulty in the country where we are stationed; we interface with the local government and other embassy staffs to deliver on our president's objectives, whatever they might be, and from our knowledge and experience advise the president and his representatives about persons and situations that will help them better formulate objectives. We will aid but never acknowledge CIA staffers in our midst.

At the UN we deliver on our president's objectives and from our knowledge and experience advise him (or eventually her -- but never Hillary Clinton) and his representatives about persons and situations that will help them better formulate objectives.

Did I miss anything important?

Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-09 10:32|| 2017-08-09 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 I think I see the problem,35,000 State employees.

Posted by Snakes Hatrack7000 2017-08-09 10:32|| 2017-08-09 10:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Did I miss anything important?

Probably that your 'we' and the 'we' of the ruling cosmopolitan class aren't the same? Their 'we' thinks your and my 'we' just shut up and do as told.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-09 11:11|| 2017-08-09 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Ah, the value of an Ivy League education.

I thought about this a few months ago - the Kennedy School of Government, a fairly big part of one of the most 'prestigious' universities in the world, is where you go to learn how to be a high level government hack. To me, this is not the right form of ambition.

Posted by Raj 2017-08-09 11:43|| 2017-08-09 11:43|| Front Page Top

#11 If many don't know what their job is, it is time for a good housecleaning. We need a better focus in these agencies. I'm afraid these agencies have become a dumping ground to make the economy look better than it really, to have a store of Democrat votes that is assured and to increase the ranks of the Deep (or Perpetual) State.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-09 12:05|| 2017-08-09 12:05|| Front Page Top

#12 I always thought their job is raising Israelis blood pressure - it isn't?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-09 12:49|| 2017-08-09 12:49|| Front Page Top

#13 ...only the portion which is a unregistered lobbying agency for the Palestinians (which appears to be a large portion).

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-09 13:48|| 2017-08-09 13:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Strange. Every time I needed them they seemed to know that their mission was to help me only if it didn't involve any effort whatsoever.

Posted by gorb 2017-08-09 21:50|| 2017-08-09 21:50|| Front Page Top

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