30.6 - For the Record: State Dept. mission statement

For the Record: State Dept. mission statement

For the Record: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has ordered up a new mission statement for the department.

The draft versions under review are similar to the old one - except for dropping any reference to promoting either democracy or a just world.

Former senior State Department officials from both parties said such a change is neither accidental nor inconsequential and would give comfort to dictators around the world.

Meanwhile, the State Department is closing the www.humanrights.gov website and moving its content to the easily-remembered URL of www.state.gov/j/drl.