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Home Front: Politix
US envoy to Kenya resigns after 'threatening to shoot staff in head'
2012-07-04
HT to Gateway Pundit. A little more on why this asshat had to step down
On the bright side, he's now available to lead the rewiring of our East Coast...
Scott Gration, who had led the US embassy in Nairobi since February last year, stepped down late last week, citing "differences with Washington regarding my leadership style".

It is understood that the State Department's inspector general is preparing to release a scathing report on Mr Gration, who is a close ally of President Barack Obama, following an extensive internal inquiry.
just as narcissistic as his Executive
The former Air Force major general is said to have shown a "confrontational" and eccentric style of micromanagement that caused low morale and complaints among embassy staff.

Mr Gration repeatedly engaged in battles with employees and, according to a report by Foreign Policy, threatened at one point to "shoot them in the head" if they did not comply.
Sounds reasonable
It is also alleged that Mr Gration might have lost his security clearance after the inquiry found he had used a personal email account for official business and set up an office in an embassy lavatory in order to get around the building's secure network.

Such was his eccentric style that soon after starting the job he also ordered that the heights of all embassy tables be adjusted and demanded that all clocks be recalibrated, according to reports.
Obama would be proud
The disclosures threaten to embarrass Mr Obama, who previously made Mr Gration his special envoy to Sudan after the veteran diplomat became an early champion of his presidential ambitions.
Posted by:Frank G

#3  He's a postmodern Major General.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2012-07-04 19:16  

#2  Gration's roots in Africa run deep. He grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya to missionary parents and speaks fluent Swahili. As Sudan envoy, he took a stance widely seen among activists as too solicitous to the Khartoum regime, focusing more on incentives than pressures -- or, as he infelicitously once described them, "cookies" and "gold stars." That stance caused friction between Gration and other top Obama officials, especially U.N. ambassador Susan Rice.

Only Obama can hand out the "cookies and gold stars." Under the crew bus for you general.

"The boot you lick, is the boot that kicks."
anon
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-07-04 17:45  

#1  "Veteran diplomat" or "former Major General"? Can't really be both, and sounds like he was neither.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division   2012-07-04 17:34  

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