Fact Checker: Pompeo’s complaint about the 'Boston-DC corridor' is based on flawed data
By Glenn Kessler Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow March 7 at 3:00 AM “I also have an even more sinister goal, which is I want to stop hiring just people from New York and Boston and Washington, D.C., want to take the message that being an American diplomat is a truly proud profession and that we need a really diverse workforce and that includes people from the heartland, people who grew up with the values that I know so well from my time in Kansas.
Hmmm. Pompeo himself was born in Orange, Calif., graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and got a law degree from Harvard. The Fact Checker grew up in Ohio and Kentucky, graduated from Brown University and received a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
But there are four major centers for studying international relations located in D.C.: The School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, the School of International Service at American University and the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Logically, people who are interested in pursuing a career at the State Department might first want to get a specialized degree.
A better gauge of geographic diversity would be tracking where foreign-service officers attended high school, but the State Department apparently does not keep that data. Virginia is popular, because it allows a diplomat to pay in-state tuition to Virginia’s top-ranked colleges. Florida and Texas are also favorites for diplomats because they are no-tax states. In contrast to the list of universities, only one ambassador — Kathleen Fitzpatrick, the head of mission in Timor-Leste — listed the District as her residence.
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