We know with some certainty that State is rife with Clinton holdovers, globalists, socialists, traitors, moles, Arab Street denizens and probably a spy or two.
However, the State Dept. SPOKESMAN himself wouldn't have opened his mouth on this without the permission of Pres. Bush through Secy. Rice.
State is our Achilles heel. A thorough house-cleaning was never done. However, this stupid position on the cartoons comes right from GW's hopes to make the Islams like us. They will not appreciate this olive branch. The Administration should have kept its nose AND mouth out of this brouhaha.
There goes a big part of the base again. Sheesh!
Leni
Don't be so certain. Is he the chief spokesman, or one of lower rank? Is he a poltical appointee, or a civil servant?
To answer my own question, he's a "Press officer" who works in the office of Press Relations, under Chief Press Relations Serv. Julie Reside, who in turn works for the Director of Press Relations Tom Casey, who works for either one of the Deputy Assistant Press Secretaries or the Deputy Press Secretaries, who in turn work for the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Robert A. Tappan, who works for Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Department Spokesman Sean McCormack, who reports through Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Huges (A name you might recognize) who reports to Secretary Rice .
So most likely he's far enough down the pecking order to be a civil servant, and thus only nominally responsible to Secreatry Rice. In any event, he's far from the spokesman for the State Department, at best he's a spokesman for a small subsection of it.
See the State Department Directory and the State Department Organzation Chart.