The big story in the “news” today. From the fake take at the WaPo:

The State Department’s entire senior administrative team just resigned

“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” said David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”

Gee, what any guy who probably never worked in the private sector outside of college would say.

Breitbart has the honest news, of course. You want to read the whole article.

The American Foreign Service Association also shot down the narrative about mass resignations: While this appears to be a large turnover in a short period of time, a change of administration always brings personnel changes, and there is nothing unusual about rotations or retirements in the Foreign Service. Indeed, both are essential to the development of a steady stream of experienced leaders ready to assume critical roles at State.  “Given the talent available in our diplomatic corps, we expect that the new Secretary will have no trouble finding the right people at State to fill out his senior leadership team.”

Yep. Plenty more where those came from. They can fill those critical roles. With talent you just don’t find in the private sector. Yes sir, noooo problem.