Sunday Spin #3 - SecState Tony Blinken Gets Afghanistan Crisis Assist from Chris Wallace

Anthony Blinken is a highly political operative, now the figurehead and public face of the U.S. State Department.  However, the Dept. of State is an independent bureaucratic system inside the U.S. government that is outside the control of any functioning governmental process.  Essentially, the State Department is the U.S. branch of the United Nations, and they act unilaterally exactly like that.

The unelected operators, bureaucrats within the Department of State (DoS), make U.S. foreign policy from within the executive branch.  There is a pretense promoted by media that the executive branch, specifically the President of the United States, is controlling the internal mechanism of the U.S. State Department, but that’s a ruse.  If it were true, the State Department would act like they had accountability to someone or something; they do not.

The modern U.S. State Dept is an independent, bureaucratic, and massive foreign policy institution that does not accept any oversight.  They are able to accomplish their independent position by partnering with intelligence agencies.  The Dept of State use the U.S. Intelligence Branch as a weapon against any individual or entity who would attempt oversight.

When a Secretary of State is appointed to the role as head of the agency, the arbitrary nature of the institution around them is accepted.  In the modern political dynamic, the Secretary of State position is customarily given to a key political figure by the President as a payback or compensation for support.  The SoS then uses their position for leisure, personal graft, a life of indulgence and a position to repay the interests of their tribe.

During any Democrat term in office; and in addition to funding the family of the President who appointed them; as long as the Secretary of State appropriately and adequately funds the members, families and friends of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then they are perceived to be doing their job correctly.  The SoS keeps that institutional mechanism working, and in return the unilateral operations of the department are supported.

[Reference – Former Senator John McCain did not like Anthony Blinken because the Arizona senator feared Blinken would tilt the DoS coffers in favor of the Clinton syndicate.  Cindy McCain was not about to take a position in line at Tiffany’s behind Chelsea; this became an issue between the two dynasties.  Mitch McConnell replaced McCain with Mitt Romney]

Foreign countries know how the nature of the position has evolved, and they no longer respond to the U.S. secretary of state with any level of respect.

From the perspective of foreign governments, the Secretary of State is, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant.  Any conflict between their interests and the U.S. state department is like getting a strongly worded letter from Lindsey Graham.  And therein lies the problem when a major international crisis erupts, and the Secretary of State is in the global spotlight.

To prevent a harsh public perspective against Joe Biden’s State Department appointee, the guardian of the DC swamp gates, Chris Wallace is called into action: