Q: Who doesn’t want their professional profile to rise?
A: Someone with something to hide.
Or maybe she isn’t willing to do what must be done. She was appointed by GW Bush and Obama to different jobs and then by Trump to this one, so he obviously was told she was pretty hot s#it. But in her wiki I find this: “In 2015, Brand expressed support for revised guidelines issued by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, arguing that they represented a welcome shift in the intelligence community away from what she termed its historical “reflexive secrecy.”
Even if her position is right, supporting Clapper is troublesome. Did she just want to “get along”?
And “Brand dissented from several recommendations included in the PCLOB’s 2014 report on NSA’s bulk metadata collection program under section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. She declined to join in the Board’s view that the program was illegal as a statutory matter and argued that, in policy terms, it struck a justifiable balance between privacy and national security and, as such, should not be discontinued”
Sounds deep-statish. Good riddance.
That could be. It could also be that she didn’t think she was qualified for the spot that might open up. It might also be a result of her not wanting to take that much time away from her family.
I know some of those sound like lame excuses, but some folks don’t want top dog positions of this caliber.
Being there only nine months, I’m not sure what she could have soiled herself with to this point. I guess that is possible too though.
Someone like me that decided they don’t want the job after trying it out for a while?
I think I heard she is going to Walmart and will make millions a year. Government pays crap if you have to compete with the civilian sector.