U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes to boost morale at the State Departmen...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes to boost morale at the State Department with an “ethos” statement that some former officials viewed with skepticism, partly because an early draft had language they saw as an admonition not to leak to the media.
The two former officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the initiative was driven by Ulrich Brechbuhl, the State Department counselor who is a close aide to Pompeo and was his classmate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Pompeo is scheduled to deliver remarks on “One Team, One Mission: Introducing our Ethos” at 10 a.m. on Friday, the anniversary of his becoming secretary of state.
“To do so means you want me to say that nobody ever had this on their mind or it was not one of the sort of elements that we would define as professional responsibility or accountability,” he said. “It might have been in people’s minds. ... It was never a principal or major one.” Pompeo has also said that he wanted to focus on the State Department “getting back our swagger,” a phrase that rang false to some U.S. diplomats who are taught to be understated rather than overbearing, given U.S. economic and military might.
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