The State Department is laying off 1,300 bureaucrats in a "massive restructuring plan."

• Layoff notices are going out to more than 1,300 employees of the U.S. State Department Friday.

• The firings are part of a dramatic reorganization and a push by the Trump administration to drastically downsize the federal government.

  The State Department is laying off more than 1,300 employees Friday, a move that critics say will make us less safe abroad and hurt America's leadership across the globe.

  The Trump administration has pushed to reshape American diplomacy and worked aggressively to shrink the size of the federal government, including mass dismissals as part of moves to dismantle whole departments like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Education Department.
  State Dept. layoffs

  By the numbers:

  The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States, a senior State Department official told The Associated Press.

  Foreign service officers affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, according to an internal notice obtained by The Associated Press. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is 60 days, it said.

The pinkslips are coming for DOJ lawyers who participated in the political persecution of the right.

Clandestine
@WarClandestine

Interesting.

WaPo claim anonymous sources are telling them that the Trump admin are currently "firing and pushing out employees" at the DOJ/FBI, with zero explanation or warning.

Sounds like a purge is going on.

Perhaps bad actors are being drawn out and eliminated. But one thing is for certain, that much is going on behind the scenes. There's plenty going on that we do not get to see.

CBS "News" whines that all of their sources and traitors are being fired.

A 17-year former Justice Department official is warning of a wave of retribution inside the agency.

Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News, "The rules don't exist anymore."

Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi, is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.

"There used to be a line, used to be a very distinct separation between the White House and the Department of Justice, because one should not interfere with the work of the other," Hartman told CBS News. "That line is very definitely gone."

Hartman isn't a prosecutor, but worked on the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office public affairs team that distributed news releases about the more than 1,500 Jan. 6 criminal prosecutions.

"I am not political. I do not serve a president or a party," she said. "I serve the American people, the Department of Justice and its mission and the citizens in the district where I work. I've been doing that for almost 20 years."

Julie Kelly says that's a lie.

The purge of Justice Department employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases began shortly after President Trump's second inauguration, when he installed a former Jan. 6 defense attorney, Ed Martin, as the acting top prosecutor in Washington, D.C.

Multiple prosecutors were promptly terminated.

The latest wave of firings included Hartman and three more prosecutors who helped handle some of the Jan. 6 cases. She said those firings appear to be a form of retribution from the administration.

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She characterized her dismissal as an indication of a broader destabilization inside the Justice Department and Trump administration. In a social media post this week, she wrote, "We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be."

"The people in charge who are supposed to protect us -- our fellow Americans who we elected, along with those who were appointed, and swore an oath to protect this nation and our Constitution -- now use the Constitution as a weapon to suit their own ends. And the most terrifying fact is, their road map is very long," Hartman also wrote.

She told CBS News she had been fired without due process and said she's considering a legal challenge over her termination.

Julie Kelly ????????
@julie_kelly2

WashPo reporting fabulous news out of DOJ as employee purge continues.

"Widespread, abrupt terminations have left Justice Department and FBI employees wondering if they will be next, people familiar with the matter say."

This makes me especially happy:

"Patricia Hartman, a veteran spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in D.C., was notified Monday that she was fired."

Hartman routinely refused to answer any of my media inquiries as she ran cover for Matt Graves and J6 prosecutors.

"I wish I HAD an explanation," Hartman told WashPo.

More: "At least three attorneys who worked on the prosecutions of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 and had been demoted to roles elsewhere also were removed."

DOJ already fired several temp J6 prosecutors but many career prosecutors who worked on J6 cases remain but "fear they may be next to receive a termination letter."

I can GUARANTEE some will very soon.