Top State Department Nuclear Expert Announces Resignation After Trump Iran Deal Exit
One of the State Department's top experts on nuclear proliferation resigned this week after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, in what officials and analysts say is part of a worrying brain drain from public service generally over the past 18 months.Richard Johnson, a career civil servant who served as acting assistant coordinator in State's Office of Iran Nuclear Implementation, had been involved in talks with countries that sought to salvage the deal in recent weeks, including Britain, France, and Germany -- an effort that ultimately failed.
I take them as "protest resignations," but these fellows may have something to hide too. As in giving a clean bill, deliberately overlooking infractions.
Is it relevant that these two resigned instead of “committing suicide”?