Rex Tillerson has yet to be confirmed as secretary of state but already hundreds of foreign service officers in his department are preparing a public demonstration of opposition to the Trump administration's executive order temporarily banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim majority countries.
The demonstration is expected to come through the State Department's dissent channel which is reserved for people within the department to express opposition without reprisal. The officers will criticize the executive order for standing "in opposition to the core American and constitutional values that we, as federal employees, took an oath to uphold," according to a draft of the memo obtained by LawFare.
The Trump administration dismissed such protests Monday afternoon. "They should either get with the program or they can go," said White House spokesman Sean Spicer at the daily press briefing.
"Foreign service officers are notoriously risk averse and coalescing around a risky demonstration of dissent like this by our standards is notable," one retired foreign service officer told VICE News.
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