Back during the 1950's people demonized Joe McCarthy was searching for communists and Soviet Union supporters in the State Department. Truman had quietly gotten rid of a lot of the communists put into government by Roosevelt. But, after the fall of the Soviet Union it came out that McCarthy was correct that there were still a lot of them left. One might fault McCarthy's grandstanding and other antics, but the fact rmains that there actually were a lot of communists in the State Department. Democrats don't like to admit it, but their socialist tendencies do attract communist sympathizers. Now it appears that Strobe Talbott was considered to be an asset by the Russians during the Clinton Administration. The following blog is from "dissecting leftism:" Personally I never liked Talbott's positions, and I always thought he was a collectivist.

In what could be the biggest State Department scandal since State Department official and United Nations founder Alger Hiss was exposed as a Soviet spy, a top Clinton State Department official and former Time magazine journalist has been identified as having been a trusted contact of the Russian intelligence service. The sensational charge against Strobe Talbott is made in a new book based on interviews with a Russian defector. The book, Comrade J, by veteran author and reporter Pete Earley, identifies Talbott as having been manipulated by a Russian official working for Russian intelligence in order to get information about U.S. foreign policy. The same book describes the United Nations as a major base of espionage operations for Russia in the U.S."

There seem to be a lot of people in the State Department who work against the interests of the United States. They worked overtime against the foreign policy initiatives of President Bush. It hasn't changed much since Roosevelt tried to put in a communist (Sumner Welles) as Secretary of State, and had the socialist Henry Wallace as VP.