Everything about Marc Grossman totally explained
In
2005,
Ambassador Marc Grossman completed 29 years of public service when he retired from the
State Department as the
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Ambassador Grossman served as the Department’s third-ranking official, supporting U.S. diplomacy worldwide.
Ambassador Grossman previously served as the Director General of the
Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources from
2000 to
2001. At the direction of the
Secretary of State, he revamped the State Department’s human resource strategies, including the Department’s strategies for training, assigning, and retaining personnel both at home and abroad.
As Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from
1997 to 2000, Ambassador Grossman was responsible for over 4,000 State Department employees posted in 50 sites abroad with a program budget of $1.2 billion. He played a lead role in orchestrating
NATO's 50th anniversary Summit in
Washington in 1999 and helped direct U.S. participation in NATO’s military campaign in
Kosovo that same year.
Ambassador Grossman was U.S. Ambassador to
Turkey from
1994 to 1997. In Turkey, he promoted security cooperation, human rights and democracy, and a vibrant U.S.-Turkish economic relationship. Ambassador Grossman had previously served as the
U.S. Embassy’s
Deputy Chief of Mission from 1989 to 1992.
As the Executive Secretary of the State Department and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from
1993 to 1994, Ambassador Grossman managed operations for the senior State Department leadership. He served as the Deputy Director of the Private Office of
Lord Carrington, the
Secretary General of NATO, from
1983 to
1986 and at the U.S. Embassy in
Pakistan from 1976 to 1983.
A native of
Los Angeles,
California, Ambassador Grossman graduated from the
University of California, Santa Barbara and later received an MSc. in International Relations from the
London School of Economics and Political Science. As a result of his outstanding service to his country, Ambassador Grossman is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. He attained the Foreign Service’s highest rank in 2004 when the President appointed him to the rank of Career Ambassador; he received the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award the following year. Ambassador Grossman serves on the Board of Directors/Trustees of a number of non-profit and educational institutions.
Valerie Plame Affair
Grossman played a peripheral role in the
Plame Affair, at least in terms of what is currently known.
On
10 June 2003, an analyst at the
State Department's
Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) sent a memo to Ambassador Grossman outlining Ambassador
Joseph Wilson's trip to
Niger and mentioning that
Wilson's wife worked at the
CIA. Reportedly, Grossman wanted the memo as background to use at a White House meeting on criticism of
President Bush for using the Niger claim in his
State of the Union speech.
According to the
Washington Post, Grossman has refused to answer questions about the memo. The Post says it isn't clear if Grossman actually talked about the memo or mentioned Mrs. Wilson at the meeting.
On
6 July 2003,
Richard Armitage asked the head of INR,
Carl Ford, to send a copy of the memo to
Colin Powell aboard
Air Force One.
In
Patrick Fitzgerald's
indictment of
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on October 28, 2005, Grossman is the Under Secretary of State mentioned as giving information about Plame to Libby.
It has been suggested by Libby's legal defense that Grossman is biased because, according to Theodore Wells, Libby's defense lawyer, Grossman and Wilson went to college and came up through the ranks of the State Department together.
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