From the seventh floor of the Old Headquarters Building, John Rizzo, the agency's highest-ranking career lawyer, watched traffic jams form at the exits from the agency's campus.
The salary, which made them the city's highest paid public officials, was intended to symbolize Ms. Lam's importance as the school system's highest-ranking career educator.
Ms. Lam had earned $250,000, the same as Mr. Klein, in recognition of her role as the system's highest-ranking career educator.
Mr. Fujimura expressed hope that a higher-level meeting, which is expected to involve vice ministers, who are usually the nations' top-ranking career diplomats, would be a first step toward lowering tensions.
"I fundamentally believe that the balance between sanctions and diplomacy has been misaligned," said Thomas R. Pickering, who was one of the State Department's highest-ranking career diplomats and whom the department has called on to head up important investigations, including one into the death last fall of the American ambassador to Libya.
Yet Mr Hersh's narrative is less about the battle between the Departments of State and Defence, which has been well charted, than that between the top layer of political appointees at the Pentagon and the White House and the senior and middle-ranking career officials in the military and intelligence services.
The words of more than a dozen high-ranking career employees, from Interior Department headquarters and regional offices in California and Oregon, who are quoted usually by title in the report, describe a manager determined to see that agency findings and the underlying science conform with policy goals.
He also refined the demand for an independent prosecutor, saying that neither Sessions not Rosenstein could be involved, and that a high-ranking career prosecutor at the Department of Justice should choose someone.
While many called for an independent counsel to probe the Russia meddling ― and any possible collusion with the Trump campaign ― others went further and said Sessions and Rosenstein should recuse themselves from picking a special prosecutor, who should also be the highest-ranking career prosecutor.
Safina was expected to move up a place, to No. 7 in the rankings, a career high, and displace Venus Williams.
