I'm sure that most of the people in the State Dept. are decent people, just doing their job; most were probably not even aware of all the corruption going on around them.  Actually, they may have received even more misinformation than the general public...? But the ones who were at the top... or should I say the ones who were selected to run that agency (and others) ... were scum and corrupt.    Sadly, in many past administrations, the worst of the worst were appointed to head most of the agencies, and then those people chose other corrupt people to advance to higher positions.  It's taken a while for Trump to get rid of all the parasites, because some of them stay hidden behind a blanket of deception.