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The More Things Change…

From ABC’s The Blotter:

Even as she accepted the resignation of State’s security chief Tuesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice quietly promoted two senior staffers who directly oversaw controversial Blackwater security operations, sources tell ABC News….

Current and former officials were outraged.

“It is ironic; on the day the assistant secretary for DSS resigns, the two people with oversight responsibility for the program get promoted,” said one current State Department official who asked not to be named….

“They both got promoted in the face of all this mismanagement and controversy — talk about government B.S.,” said another. “What does it say when State promotes the two people into DS’ most senior positions, when if they had properly managed the programs under the responsibility, we wouldn’t be in this mess?”

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