KEVIN MOLEY
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
2018-2019
WHY DOES KEVIN MOLEY STILL HAVE A JOB AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT?
August 22, 2019
OIG published its findings last week in a 30-page report that incriminates both Stull and Moley. Some of the highlights:
“Throughout its review of the IO Bureau, OIG found that the leadership of IO failed to meet the Department’s Leadership and Management Principles. Nearly every employee interviewed by OIG raised concerns about the leadership of IO and the treatment of staff. Then-Under Secretary Shannon told OIG that IO employees had described to him a negative and ‘vindictive’ environment in IO cultivated by Assistant Secretary Moley and Ms. Stull.”
“Several current and former IO employees reported that Assistant Secretary Moley and Ms. Stull frequently berated employees, raised their voices, and generally engaged in unprofessional behavior toward staff. Senior Department officials outside of IO were particularly concerned about such treatment directed at more junior employees.”
“Other employees reported that they were reprimanded by Assistant Secretary Moley and Ms. Stull for following established Department policies and procedures.”
“Assistant Secretary Moley criticized employees when they told him that official travel that he planned in May 2018 did not qualify for first class accommodations under the Department’s travel policies and accused them of ‘not fighting hard enough’ to meet his demands.”
US DIPLOMAT ACCUSED OF POLITICAL RETRIBUTION STEPS DOWN
October 18, 2019
His four-sentence note made no mention of the controversy surrounding him and his former senior adviser Marie Stull.
In an August report, the State Department’s inspector general documented allegations from career employees that Moley and Stull had retaliated or tried to retaliate against them because they had served in the previous administration. Stull left the department earlier this year.
The report said employees had reported that Moley and Stull “frequently berated employees, raised their voices, and generally engaged in unprofessional behavior toward staff.”
“Numerous employees told (the inspector general) that Assistant Secretary Moley and Ms. Stull made inappropriate accusations of disloyalty and made positive or negative comments about employees based on perceived political views,” the report said, adding that Stull had referred to career employees as ”‘Obama holdovers,’ ‘traitors,’ or ‘disloyal.’”
SENIOR STATE OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF MISMANAGEMENT TO STEP DOWN
October 18, 2019
The State Department Inspector General released a report in August that detailed “evidence of leadership and management deficiencies and mistreatment of career employees” in the bureau under Moley’s leadership. The report cited concerns raised by employees about both Moley and another senior Trump appointee in the bureau. Both vehemently denied the allegations.
The mismanagement cited in the inspector general’s report included “disrespectful and hostile treatment of employees, accusations against and harassment of career employees premised on claims that they were ‘disloyal’ based on their perceived political views, and retaliation associated with conflicts of interest,” according to the report.