U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson diminished the organization he led during the first year of President Donald Trump’s administration while fending off personal attacks from his own president. Now, he’s passing a weakened institution to a man with no diplomatic record, who observers said appears far less likely to restrain Trump’s most controversial and erratic foreign policy positions: CIA chief Mike Pompeo. “We’re going to see a Trump foreign policy unleashed now, in a way that it had been tempered and moderated before,” Hady Amr, a former senior diplomat in president Barack Obama’s State Department, told VICE …read more
Source: VICE News
