[Senator Goldwater]

State is rife with lefties, and has been for about sixty years now.

[hinckley buzzard]

Even Harry Truman complained about the rogue "diplomats" at State. "The striped pants boys" he called them derisively, when they tried in 1948 to sabotage the creation of Israel.

Nothing much has ever changed there, where US Goobermint careerists systematically undercut proAmerican administration initiatives. It is a structural problem and requires a complete reform, which no president or Sec/State has had the gonads to achieve.

[elpadre]

State bureaucrats have always tried to undercut and subvert Republican administrations. It is a fact of life and they are all protected by civil service/