While Porter apologized for her remarks, which were made before she entered public office, it came to light that she clashed with career State Department officials who viewed her as unprepared for press briefings and prone to make policy gaffes that caused diplomatic headaches.
State Department and diplomatic insiders who spoke to the Free Beacon said it is strange for the department to announce the departure of a top official without stating what her next role will be.
A senior congressional source familiar with State Department debates over Porter told the Free Beacon that the State Department's lack of clarity on Porter's future hints that she could have problems finding employment elsewhere in the administration.
Porter later told the Free Beacon that her post "Was intended as a light-hearted, personal social media post and nothing more." A State Department official said the post does not violate its ethical guidelines.
Porter struggled at times to answer questions from reporters, most notably in October 2021, when she claimed that the Biden administration was engaged in discussions related to "Palestine." The verbal slip-up stunned career State Department officials who said Porter upended decades of long-standing U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by making reference to "Palestine," which does not exist and is not used as a term by the U.S. diplomatic community.
As the policy blunder fueled chatter in the foreign policy community, a career State Department official who works on these issues told the Free Beacon that Porter's inexperience was causing internal strife.
Asked about the comment during a State Department briefing, Porter said it is "Critical for Israel to refrain from any unilateral steps that certainly would exacerbate tensions or take us further away from peace"-a statement that appeared to break with longstanding U.S. policy urging all sides in the conflict to move toward peace.
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