Plan. which among other things has consisted of dramatically diminishing the diplomatic staff. well, yesterday, the secretary responded. i don t want to have a layoff. i don t want to fire a bunch of people. i said, let s manager some of our staffing target which is is normal attrition. so, we re keeping the organization fully staffed. we re still learning foreign officers school. we ve hired over 300 this year. so there is no hollowing out. these numbers that people are throwing around are just false. they re wrong. tillerson s remarks come one day after his top aide in charge of his overhaul program for the state department abruptly resigned after three months on the job. there s new developments on national security adviser michael flynn. the washington post cite unnamed sources saying within the first weeks flynn took steps