From CFSO

Concerned Foreign Service Officers was recently mentioned in an article by Matthew Nasuti, a disgruntled former employee and dedicated critic of the U.S. Department of State. We wish to be clear that we do not condone or support the work of Mr. Nasuti, which appears to be aimed at conducting a broad-scale negative propaganda campaign against the State Department and the U.S. Government.

CFSO has legitimate complaints about problems in the conduct of security clearance adjudications by the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and about the lack of oversight that allows these problems to continue. However, our focus is narrow and limited to that area only.

The State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security has numerous difficult tasks to perform, and performs most of them extremely well. Most DS employees are dedicated and competent, performing necessary work under difficult and often dangerous circumstances.

CFSO seeks by its work to improve one function among many dozens that DS performs. We greatly lament the mischaracterization of our organization's work for propaganda purposes, and denounce Mr. Nasuti's efforts to tarnish the image of the State Department as a whole.