In 2020, Senate Democrats put together a compendium of complaints from State Department officials. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had weakened Foggy Bottom, they said, leaving high-level posts unfilled and causing diplomats to leave because of what they claimed was Pompeo’s “sense of disrespect and disdain for their work.”

Unfortunately, the secretary’s true failure would not become clear until after he had left office: Mike Pompeo had shown wildly insufficient disdain for those diplomats’ work.

Last night, 60 Minutes exposed the consequences of not showing enough disdain for the blame-America-first activists that inhabit the State Department. Although the show was dedicated to Foggy Bottom-feeders’ crusade against American support for Israel, there was one comment in particular that revealed the full depth of the ideological rot:

“The level of anger throughout the Arab world—and I’ll say beyond the Arab world—is palpable,” said Hala Rharrit, a former State official who resigned and is now headlining fundraisers for CAIR, the organization whose director celebrated the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. “Protests began erupting in the Arab world, which I was also documenting, with people burning American flags. This is very significant, because we worked so hard after the war on terror to strengthen ties with the Arab world.”