Thread by @donmoyn, As a professor of public management, I'm interested in how bureaucrats respond [...]

As a professor of public management, I'm interested in how bureaucrats respond to regimes they disagree with. One option they have is to mix exit (quitting) with voice (protest). Haven't seen it elsewhere, so I'm going to start recording examples of bureaucrats doing this. 1/

Edward Price, Feb 2017: quits CIA protesting Trump's messaging that the CIA intelligence, including evidence around Russian interference in US elections, could not be trusted. 2/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-didnt-think-id-ever-leave-the-cia-but-because-of-trump-i-quit/2017/02/20/fd7aac3e-f456-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_33

Opinion | I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit.

The administration’s disregard for the intelligence community makes it impossible to serve Trump in good faith.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-didnt-think-id-ever-leave-the-cia-but-because-of-trump-i-quit/2017/02/20/fd7aac3e-f456-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_33

John Feeley, career diplomat incl. Ambassador to Panama, March 2019: quits protesting Trump's nativist rhetoric, including comments after Charlottesville. (New Yorker profile here) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-diplomat-who-quit-the-trump-administration 3/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-i-could-no-longer-serve-this-president/2018/03/08/f444f086-225c-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html

Opinion | Why I could no longer serve this president

I could no longer work as an ambassador under a president whose values did not mesh with my own.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-diplomat-who-quit-the-trump-administration

Chuck Park, State Dept, August 2019: protests Trump's anti-immigrant policies. Argues that the "Deep State" resisting the President is a myth. Instead there is a “Complacent State” implementing Trump's policies, even if they hold moral qualms. 4/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-can-no-longer-justify-being-a-part-of-trumps-complacent-state-so-im-resigning/2019/08/08/fed849e4-af14-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html

Opinion | I can no longer justify being a part of Trump’s ‘Complacent State.’ So I’m resigning.

The rank-and-file serving this president should be named and shamed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-can-no-longer-justify-being-a-part-of-trumps-complacent-state-so-im-resigning/2019/08/08/fed849e4-af14-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html

David Rank, career diplomat, acting Ambassador to China, January 2017: resigned after Trump withdraws from Paris accords. "I worry about the denigration of expertise at a time when a complex world demands it more than ever." 5/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-i-resigned-from-the-foreign-service-after-27-years/2017/06/23/6abee224-55ff-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html

Opinion | Why I resigned from the Foreign Service after 27 years

I couldn’t be involved in leaving the Paris agreement. But I hope my former colleagues stay.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-i-resigned-from-the-foreign-service-after-27-years/2017/06/23/6abee224-55ff-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html

Jonathan Kravis, career prosecutor, DOJ, May 2020: resigns after political interference into prosecution of Trump's political allies: "the department again put political patronage ahead of its commitment to the rule of law." 6/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/11/i-left-justice-department-after-it-made-disastrous-mistake-it-just-happened-again/

Opinion | I left the Justice Department after it made a disastrous mistake. It just happened again.

Justice, except for the president's cronies?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/11/i-left-justice-department-after-it-made-disastrous-mistake-it-just-happened-again/

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