Interesting: Shake up at State Department

The article at the Post is very detailed and interesting. One of the concerns was with the historian not publishing enough about foreign policy during the Reagan administration.

(excerpt from) Washington Post
After Critical Report, State Dept.’s Historian Is Reassigned

By Walter Pincus / Monday, June 8, 2009

The head of the State Department’s Office of the Historian [Marc J. Susser] has been reassigned after an inspector general’s investigation found “serious mismanagement for which the director must be held accountable.”…

Susser was appointed to the historian job in 2001, at the beginning of George W. Bush’s administration…

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