{"id":348872,"date":"2018-02-19T02:54:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-state-dept-not-dismantled\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T02:54:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:54:35","slug":"us-state-dept-not-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-state-dept-not-dismantled\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Dept. not dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has rejected allegations against his department, asserting that it is not dismantled.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The former ExxonMobil CEO made the comments in an interview with on CBS&#8217;s \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d aired Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cThere\u2019s been no dismantling at all of the State Department. We\u2019ve got terrific people, both foreign service officers, civil servants, that have stepped into those roles around the world, and have stepped in here,\u201d Tillerson said on CBS&#8217;s \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">This is while around 40 American embassies remain without confirmed ambassadors cross the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cIt\u2019s not a question of people being\u2026 are neglecting the importance of it. It\u2019 just the nature of the process itself,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The 65-year politician has reportedly reduced the number of staff at the department while putting a freeze on recruitment in other positions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Since he appeared in office after nomination by US President Donald trump, many of&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/19\/552845\/US-State-Department-not-dismantledTillerson-North-Korea-Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has rejected allegations against his department, asserting that it is not dismantled. The former ExxonMobil CEO made the comments in an interview with on CBS&#8217;s \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d aired Sunday. \u201cThere\u2019s been no dismantling at all of the State Department. We\u2019ve got terrific people, both foreign service officers, civil servants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}