Marco Rubio’s “Reorganization” Does Not Cull Anti-American Agents
Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims his “America first” comprehensive reorganization of the State Department (DOS) will increase policy efficiency. That will happen only if the Justice Department and Congress investigate and expose DOS criminality.
DOS personnel have run their own foreign policy at least since they tried to prevent Harry Truman from supporting the creation of Israel. They have continued this disloyal activity by creating a culture of conformity and superiority.
Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs is an overrepresented feeder for DOS hires. Columbia’s radical administration screens and indoctrinates many of our foreign-service officers—and not towards US pride and values. In fact, the university has long prohibited military recruitment on campus, justified at the turn of the century by the military’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy toward homosexuals.
The university had no problem inviting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak in 2007. When asked about homosexuals while on campus, Ahmadinejad replied that there are none in Iran.
DOS’s Foreign Service Institute (FSI), unmentioned in Rubio’s brief statement, further indoctrinates DOS personnel to conform. The pressure is immense on independent thinkers to keep quiet or leave. This contradicts FSI’s boilerplate language about a “culture of learning” and providing “cutting-edge knowledge and skills.”
In a recent interview, Rubio talked about “empowering our embassies to pursue mature foreign policy.” This would entail a complete reversal of DOS’s culture, which is top-down from Washington, DC.
DOS and embassy staff I have known during five decades of living overseas know almost nothing about their hosts’ culture. They are generally cliquey and tend to keep to themselves.
I commented to a former DOS official working for a conservative think tank about a former DOS assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere I had talked with in 2019. The latter did not reply to my verbal offer to provide information about Guatemala’s high court regularly committing crimes. The supposed conservative explained that DOS trains its personnel how to provide information; therefore, she would rely on them instead of an outsider.
In the 2020 election cycle, 93 and 96 percent of political donations from DOS and USAID personnel, respectively, went to Democrats. DOS and USAID notoriously undermined President Donald Trump in his first term. That includes backing his impeachment.
Rubio wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed about moving supply chains from China to Latin America. He said this would “clear a path for our neighbors’ economic growth and safeguard Americans’ own economic security.”
Two 2023 bills in Congress were intended to promote this. I wrote then that DOS would surreptitiously oppose those bills because DOS was backing socialists in our hemisphere aligned with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
DOS is still full of traitors. In March, it issued a counternarcotics country report that covered for the CCP by claiming the communists had no policy of promoting illegal drug production. The Epoch Times, on the other hand, has reported that CCP boss Xi Jinping’s policy is the production and export of fentanyl precursors.
Rubio’s op-ed said we can reverse past policies “that accelerated China’s economic development … at our neighbors’ expense.” He included Guatemala in his examples of countries neglected by DOS activities.
The Biden regime and DOS fraudulently imposed Bernardo Arévalo as president of Guatemala in 2023 as part of flooding the United States with illegal immigrants and drugs. The DOS country report falsely portrayed Arévalo’s regime as a US ally. It is an ally of anti-US DOS officials, not the United States.
Also in March, DOS issued a false certification of Guatemala as a counternarcotics partner. Rubio likely was unaware of these actions.
DOS stated the fraudulent 2022 Brazilian election—that made CCP ally Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva president—demonstrated “the viability of their democracy, that in many ways is a model for the hemisphere.” DOS also supported the 2021 fraudulent Peruvian election of communist Pedro Castillo.
DOS has sided with socialists in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, among others. While criticising the dictatorial regimes of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, DOS has not taken meaningful action against them. DOS’s assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere protected former communist guerrilla and Colombian President Gustavo Petro in a June 2023 congressional hearing.
The DOS country report also praised Colombia as a counternarcotics partner, despite Petro’s defense minister having dismantled the US-created counternarcotics structure. Petro also made Colombia part of the land route for narcotics, lowering the cost of smuggling.
To counter the CCP and create strong alliances with growing economies in our hemisphere, the Trump administration must change DOS personnel and culture. For this, the Trump administration must investigate, expose, and prosecute DOS traitors and the foreign agents they have used to commit crimes abroad. Congress can support Trump by also investigating and exposing DOS betrayal.
Without these administration and congressional actions, Rubio’s reorganization will amount to a smokescreen that protects DOS treachery. DOS is essential to the corrupt globalists who have gotten us into avoidable wars and are attacking Trump from all angles. Overhauling DOS is essential for the America-first agenda to succeed.
He is a businessman, writer, and film producer, born and raised in New York. He has lived and worked in Guatemala since 1972. He holds a BA in Economics and a MBA in Banking and Finance, both from Columbia University. He has worked on development projects in Guatemala to help the country leave its underdeveloped state and reach its great potential.
Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.
