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11:55 AM 07/19/2017
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/19/tillerson-looks-to-close-cyber-office-amid-state-department-reorganization/Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will reportedly close down a Department of State office that coordinates cyber issues with foreign governments as he continues to pare down the agency’s sprawling organizational structure.
Tillerson plans to shutter the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, created under President Barack Obama in 2011, and fold its responsibilities into a larger functional bureau at State, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The coordinator will no longer report directly to the secretary of state but will fall under the department’s chain of command as a part of the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, according to people familiar with the plan.
The change is the latest move by the secretary’s office to advance an ambitious restructuring plan across the entire department. The coordinator of the Office of Global Criminal Justice (GCJ), another ambassador-level envoy, is being reassigned to a position in the department’s office of legal affairs, Foreign Policy reported Monday. (RELATED: Tillerson Considers Closure Of State Department War Crimes Office
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/18/tillerson-considers-closure-of-state-department-war-crimes-office/)
