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Article: State Department Security Chief Resigns
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- October 24, 2007
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WASHINGTON - The State Department's embattled security chief resigned on Wednesday as the scandal over last month's deadly Blackwater USA shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad claimed its first political casualty amid growing questions about the use of private contractors to protect diplomats in Iraq.
Richard Griffin, the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, made no mention of the furor in his resignation letter to President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But his decision to step down came at a time when the department is facing withering Iraqi and congressional criticism for its security practices.
It also followed by just a day the release of a ...