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Category: Resignations

Senior analyst quits Defense Intelligence Agency, citing U.S. “slide into authoritarianism”

August 14, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Democracy, Foreign Policy, Protest/Resistamce, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

It was another of the many “last straws” in the Trump era. Kyle Murphy, a senior analyst in the US Defense Intelligence Agency, went

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Student Loan Watchdog Quits Trump Administration with scorching resignation letter

August 28, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Consumer issues, Ethics, Good government, Resignations, Transcripts, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s appointee to head up [translation:destroy] the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau comes in for devastating criticism in a letter of resignation

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Steve Schmidt

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt renounces GOP membership

June 20, 2018 Renee Shur People, Politics, Protest/Resistance, Republicans, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Republican strategist and party loyalist Steve Schmidt’s painful statement today on why he has decided to leave the Republican party is well worth reading

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Why he quit: Fox News analyst denounces propaganda channel

March 21, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Resignations, Transcripts, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Calling Fox News “a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration,” Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters [US Army, retired]  quit his job

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Why he quit: Dept. of Interior scientist blasts Zinke in resignation letter

October 5, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Corruption, Environment, Protest/Resistance, Resignations, Trump, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Joel Clement,  a scientist at the Department of the Interior, has just joined the legions of people quitting the Trump administration and leaving toughly

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DACA

Why he quit: Leader of Trump’s diversity council resigns over DACA

September 5, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Immigration, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

The leader of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce resigned Tuesday from President Trump’s diversity coalition, following the administration’s announcement that it would wind

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Why he quit: Scientist resigns from Trump’s State Dept. with a biting message

August 27, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Politics, Protest/Resistance, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest One comment

Daniel Kammen couldn’t take it any more, so he quit. An expert in renewable energy, he was appointed by President Obama in 2016 as

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EPA

Why she quit: EPA scientist’s scathing letter of resignation

August 2, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Climate Change, Environment, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest 3 comments

On her way out the door, after 30 years with the Environmental Protection Agency, Elizabeth Southerland left a scathing note detailing why she quit.

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