Trump Admin Reassigns Obama Holdover Iran Deal Architect Who Snuck into Senior Position
Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, a senior career service employee at the State Department and a hold-over from the Obama and Bush administrations, has been removed from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s policy planning team, according to a report by Politico.
Nowrouzzadeh was an integral member of the team that drafted the much-maligned 2015 deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran over that theocratic dictatorship’s nuclear program. During the negotiations leading up to that deal, Breitbart News reported that Nowrouzzadeh previously had worked for the National-Iranian American Council, a lobbying group with connections to Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist leadership.According to Politico, Nowrouzzadeh has been reassigned to the State Department’s Office of Iranian Affairs. As a career service employee, Nowrouzzadeh is protected from outright dismissal over political leanings.
This does NOT solve the problem, it only shifts it to somewhere else. I’m no expert on Civil Service rules (although I’ve been moving to a position to go BACK to the time when elections mattered and the spoils went to the winner given what I’ve been reading about the burrowing in” by Obama spawns) but re-assignment seems to be acceptable. I have a great idea on WHERE to re-assign these kinds of folks that are all willing to fight against the policies of the Trump Administration.
That would be an enhanced example of the NYC teacher “rubber rooms’ – the place where Nyc puts really crappy teachers when they can’t fire them. Some of them are short timers – quite a few have been in that status for YEARS. Great way to keep getting a paycheck with no responsibility at all.
So here’s the deal – unlike the rubber rooms, make it a large warehouse. A single seat for each – no desk. No ethernet, no Wi-Fi, no power outlets. They’d just sit there. All day. Go home; come back the next day. Repeat. Absorb this cost as the alternative could possible cost us a lot more than just cash.
Breitbart News reported last month that Nowrouzzadeh was still in the senior position she has occupied since last July. Politico cites multiple State Department sources as saying that the work of independent media outlets like Breitbart in raising the alarm over Nowrouzzadeh’s continued presence in the upper echelons of State Department policymaking played a role in the decision to reassign her.
(H/T: Big Government)
