WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State Department leadership has damaged the institution by failing to resist "foreign and corrupt interests that apparently hijacked" U.S. policy towards Ukraine and by not defending its own diplomats, the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine said on Friday.
Without naming her boss, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch became the first senior diplomat to voice criticism before millions of TV viewers that colleagues have expressed only in private for fear of retaliation.
