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Related: About this forumPompeo aims to lift State Department morale with 'ethos' statement
Source: Reuters
POLITICS APRIL 25, 2019 / 10:04 PM / UPDATED 31 MINUTES AGO
Pompeo aims to lift State Department morale with 'ethos' statement
Arshad Mohammed, Jonathan Landay
5 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes to boost morale at the State Department with an ethos statement that some former officials viewed with skepticism, partly because an early draft had language they saw as an admonition not to leak to the media.
Two former officials knowledgeable about the effort said the language rankled them because it implied diplomats could not be trusted and they questioned the need for an ethos statement laying out the agencys characteristic attitudes and beliefs.
The two former officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the initiative was driven by Ulrich Brechbuhl, the State Department counselor who is a close aide to Pompeo and was his classmate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
A third former official knowledgeable about the effort said the language alluding to leaks ultimately had been dropped and that the statement itself sought to burnish the esprit de corps at the department.
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Pompeo aims to lift State Department morale with 'ethos' statement
Arshad Mohammed, Jonathan Landay
5 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes to boost morale at the State Department with an ethos statement that some former officials viewed with skepticism, partly because an early draft had language they saw as an admonition not to leak to the media.
Two former officials knowledgeable about the effort said the language rankled them because it implied diplomats could not be trusted and they questioned the need for an ethos statement laying out the agencys characteristic attitudes and beliefs.
The two former officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the initiative was driven by Ulrich Brechbuhl, the State Department counselor who is a close aide to Pompeo and was his classmate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
A third former official knowledgeable about the effort said the language alluding to leaks ultimately had been dropped and that the statement itself sought to burnish the esprit de corps at the department.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-diplomats-morale/pompeo-aims-to-lift-state-department-morale-with-ethos-statement-idUSKCN1S205O
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Pompeo aims to lift State Department morale with 'ethos' statement (Original Post)
Eugene
Apr 2019
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C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)1. Ethos Schmethos
Pompeo and Trump need some ethics
htuttle
(23,738 posts)2. Morale problems? Everyone gets an inspirational coffee mug!
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)3. The best thing he could do
to boost morale would be for him to resign, pack up and go home.
soryang
(3,299 posts)4. The problem is a perceived lack of diplomacy
Threats and coercive measures up to and including war are the style of this administration. They don't negotiate, they make demands.
Is there anyone who isn't threatened with sanctions?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/113324123