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Why Obama chose woman with no CIA experience for No. 2 CIA job
Yahoo! News ^ | June 14, 2013 | By Jennifer Skalka Tulumello

Posted on 06/14/2013 3:16:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Avril Haines will be the first woman to be second in command at the CIA, but critics point not to her gender but her lack of CIA experience. Her choice suggests Obama wants a close ally.

Plucking from a collection of high-powered female lawyers serving the White House, President Obama has nominated Avril Haines as the next deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

One former senior CIA official tells the Monitor that her nomination has prompted surprise among his former colleagues, not due to Haines’s gender, of course, but because she is a relative unknown in the community. He says the law is “not a typical track” for the deputy director job and that she’ll likely “face some skepticism among the ranks until she can prove that she has learned the intricacies of the organization and doesn’t automatically default to an overly legalistic, risk averse, view of everything.”

“She has the disadvantage of following Michael J. Morell who is much admired across the board,” the official adds. “Thirty-three years of experience being replaced by none. She faces quite an uphill climb.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201306; avrilhaines; benghazi; cia; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; mikemorell; mikemorrell; nationalsecurity; noexperience; terrorism; woman
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It's the Chicago way.
1 posted on 06/14/2013 3:16:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Its all about keeping the deck shuffled.


2 posted on 06/14/2013 3:19:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He acts like its Soviet Russia

communist leaders there didn’t fear Americans as much as they did their internal political opponents. Obama doesn’t fear Republicans. I think he fears the Clintons.


3 posted on 06/14/2013 3:20:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Jeez, Avril Lavigne would’ve been just as good a choice...


4 posted on 06/14/2013 3:20:52 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Same as all his other appointments. Not one is qualified for the job—except as a gang of corrupt, left-wing extremists.

I’m sure the Senate will confirm her in short order, and most of the Republicans will hop on board.


5 posted on 06/14/2013 3:21:16 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She will do Obama’s bidding, IE, turn the organization into an “internal security force” that ignores external threats and concentrates on eliminating democrat opposition through fear and intimidation


6 posted on 06/14/2013 3:22:09 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: andyk

His mother in law wasn’t available?


7 posted on 06/14/2013 3:22:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: realcleanguy

I doubt she’ll do much of anything aside from fill the position. The guy she’s replacing is still there as a intell advisor.


8 posted on 06/14/2013 3:24:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet the same people or their parents criticized President Reagan for his William Casey choice for DCI, even though he’d been in the OSS for goodness sakes!


9 posted on 06/14/2013 3:25:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s her background in political opposition research?


10 posted on 06/14/2013 3:26:54 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She will do what she’s told?


11 posted on 06/14/2013 3:31:00 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rats vs. GOPe = Same train, different speed.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He did it to preserve continuity and balance.

An experienced, competent person would stand out like a sore thumb in his administration.


12 posted on 06/14/2013 3:31:18 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Free Stuff, Home of the Enslaved)
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His mother in law wasn’t available?

Huma is tied up with Hillary's 2016 run...or just tied up by Hillary?

13 posted on 06/14/2013 3:32:42 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rats vs. GOPe = Same train, different speed.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
and America takes another one in the........


14 posted on 06/14/2013 3:34:09 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is paranoia run amok. Obama trusts so very few persons that he is putting them in positions in which they cannot be effective except to be loyal.


15 posted on 06/14/2013 3:38:32 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MSM gives 0 a pass, after all he IS Black.

MSM will go easier on Lib women. Hillary is living proof.


16 posted on 06/14/2013 3:47:55 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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This subhuman creature knows no bounds...nobama.


17 posted on 06/14/2013 3:49:44 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey if you can’t electronically bug em any more,put a living bug in the system.


18 posted on 06/14/2013 3:51:09 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s a freak show.


19 posted on 06/14/2013 3:56:58 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why not? He doesn’t have experience in anything but collecting names on a clipboard on the streets of Chi-Congo.


20 posted on 06/14/2013 4:05:40 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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