U.S. Ambassador Cynthia Stroum Called "Bullying, Hostile" in State Department Investigation - Political Hotsheet - CBS News: "One way that presidents reward their biggest donors is by offering them plum ambassadorships. Which is why it wasn't surprising when the Obama administration tapped Cynthia Stroum to be U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.
Stroum, a businesswoman and philanthropist, had been a major bundler for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, raising more than half a million dollars for the then-candidate.
It appears that her fundraising abilities did not translate to diplomatic success, however: According to a scathing State Department probe out Thursday (PDF), Stroum was seen by most employees as 'aggressive, bullying, hostile and intimidating.'
The probe found that Stroum's 'confrontational management style,' staffing problems and 'the absence of a sense of direction' have brought much of the Luxembourg embassy 'to a state of dysfunction.'
Things got so bad, the report says, that staffers asked for transfers to Afghanistan and Iraq due in part to 'a climate of acute stress' at the embassy."
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