Both diplomats said that an investigation into the matter could be a challenge, considering how many people have administrative access to the content management system used for the State Department’s official website.
It’s a “closed system” that is “nearly impossible to hack,” said one of the diplomats.
“It’s 100% not a hack,” they said.
In recent days, dozens of career US diplomats signed two unprecedented dissent cables condemning Trump for inciting the deadly insurrection on the Capitol last week, Foreign Policy magazine and other outlets reported.
Those outlets said that the second, strongest-worded cable rebuked Pompeo for his “failure to issue a statement unequivocally acknowledging that President-Elect Biden won the 2020 election” and protested the “President’s incitement of insurrectionist violence against the United States.”
More than 100 State Department employees signed the cable, including three who told BuzzFeed News they would have preferred even stronger language in them.
Their frustration, they said, stemmed partly from Pompeo’s weak statement, published in a series of tweets on Wednesday, that called the storming of the Capitol “unacceptable,” but did not include any mention of Trump.
Reached for comment on the site changes Monday, the White House referred BuzzFeed News to the State Department, which did not immediately provide one.
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