The resulting “professional ethos” was unveiled at an unusual all-hands pep rally in the grand foyer of the department’s Foggy Bottom headquarters, held to coincide with the first anniversary of Pompeo’s tenure. Many in the Foreign Service greeted the ethos as a loyalty oath aimed at potential leakers, and a veteran diplomat who had been consulted said it was both “incredibly condescending” and something right out of Orwell’s 1984.[3]
