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This summer has been a tumultuous one inside the U.S. State Department. In August, the department\\u2019s Office of the Inspector General handed down a scathing report alleging political manipulation and abusive practices inside the department\\u2019s International Organization bureau\\u2014only one of a series of similar allegations. At the same time, a number of career State Department officials ranging from assistant secretaries to the rank-and-file have resigned due to alleged complaints and disagreements with Trump administration officials and policies.

To dig into these developments and consider what they might mean for the State Department\\u2019s present and future, Scott R. Anderson spoke with reporters Colum Lynch and Robbie Gramer of Foreign Policy magazine, and Lawfare\\u2019s Margaret Taylor, who is a fellow alumnus of the State Department\\u2019s Office of the Legal Advisor and former Democratic Counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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