Not Since Joe McCarthy Has the State Department Suffered Such a Devastating Blow

Not Since Joe McCarthy Has the State Department Suffered Such a Devastating Blow: In my three and a half decades as a U.S. Foreign Service officer, proudly serving five presidents and ten secretaries of state from both parties, I’ve never seen an attack on diplomacy as damaging, to both the State Department as an institution and our international influence, as the one now underway.