James Gibney is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion. Previously an editor at the Atlantic, the New York Times, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy and the New Republic, he was also in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1989 to 1997 in India, Japan and Washington. Follow him on Twitter at @jamesgibney.

In today’s toxic State Department, in an administration better known for its malice than its competence, anyone who has risen in these last three years will be forever suspect. https://t.co/yHR80NPDQT via @bopinion

— james gibney (@jamesgibney) May 19, 2020