[greeneyes]

Ian Brownlee, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs, appears to feel he was right in overriding the President’s directives.

Ian G. Brownlee became the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs in February 2019. Previously he had served as an Inspector in the Office of the Inspector General.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/state-department-employee-in-japan-ignored-president-trumps-orders-and-allowed-americans-with-coronavirus-to-fly-back-to-the-us/

JUST ANOTHER FOGGY BOTTOM BUREAUCRAT THAT THINKS HE’S THE BOSS...AND NOT EVEN THAT HIGH A PAY-GRADE

[eartick]

You are fired!!!!..

Just another unelected bureaucrat that does not know his place.

The late (should be) Lt Col Windbag comes to mind

[polymuser]

Trump ought to order Ian Brownlee (the perp, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs) to visit the facility where the infected are being quarantined, for updates, every single day.

[elpadre]

The State Department personnel have always had a superiority complex.. They know best - just ask one!!!

[caww]

Another Democrat Obama holdover employee thinking they outrank potus. I also suspect Japan wants as many infected foreigners out of their country...and it doesn't help the people infected or not put a lot of pressure on those organizing flights to let them go home....even lying they;ve been cleared as one woman admitted she did.