So who is recommending these people? Pompeo needs to clean house.
The State Department is a self-perpetuating aristocracy. You eat s... for ten years and by then you have either made your bones or your out. From then on you can make underlings east s... as long as you are around. They infiltrate Washington: Its thinktanks, its congressional committees, its lawfirms. The problem Trump had was that he had no Washington insiders working for him, or Washington people he could trust. Thus he was surrounded by Quislings. You will note that his economic team survives almost intact; they are all individuals who have been around the New York scene for years, and thhy know the ins and outs of the economy as it is practiced by the private sector. He can trust those people, and they have lasted longest among those who take part in the presidency. Trump includes CIA, State or military at how own peril.