Another Murdoch entity yesterday:

White House, State Department at odds over ambassadorships

By Daniel Halper @ The New York Post, Feb. 15

WASHINGTON — A fight between the White House and State Department has broken out over ambassadorships after chief of staff Reince Priebus tried to circumvent Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to hand out the coveted posts to GOP loyalists, sources told The Post.

“Tillerson had a deal that if he were to come on board, he would have a decision on who the ambassadors were going to be,” a transition source said.

“The process was supposed to be where transition was going to give two names for each position and Tillerson was going to interview those people for each country — and Tillerson would make the decision,” the source explained.

But Priebus is using his Oval Office access to get President Trump to sign off on a list of some of the most desirable diplomatic postings, angering State Department officials, multiple sources confirmed [....]