Institution and its thousands of loyal and effective employees. i fear that not doing so will harm our nation s interests perhaps irreparably. that harm will come not just through the inevitable and continuing resignation and loss of many of this nation s most loyal and talented public servants. it will come when private interests circumvent for their own gain. the harm will come when bad actors see how easy it is to use fiction to manipulate our system. the only interests that will be served are those of our strategic adversaries like russia that spread chaos and attack the institutions and norms that the u.s. helped create and which we have benefitted from for the last 75 years. i am proud of my work in ukraine. the u.s. embassy under if i leadership represented and advanced the policies of the u.s. government. our efforts were intended and succeeded in forwarding corrupt ....