Posted on 12/02/2014 9:27:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON— Ashton Carter, the former deputy defense secretary, is the leading candidate to become the next Pentagon chief, but senior officials said President Barack Obama wouldn’t make an announcement Tuesday.
The president could announce his pick for defense secretary later this week, a senior White House official said. Mr. Carter, who was out of town Tuesday, is seen as the likely choice, officials said.
But the White House is continuing to look at other candidates, including former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig and former assistant Secretary of State Kurt Cambpell.
Mr. Obama could still change his mind and opt for one of the other men or a dark-horse candidate. But U.S. officials said the White House believes Mr. Carter is qualified to take the defense secretary job, and would be a good choice.
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BRIEF BACKGROUND:
* Ashton Carter is known for his management and budget knowledge more than his military expertise.
* As deputy secretary of defense, Mr. Carter was in charge of managing the logistics and operations for department military, often described as the business of the Pentagon.
* A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University and former professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of government, Mr. Carter is believed to have the intellectual heft to be treated seriously by top White House advisers and the National Security Council.
* First served in the Pentagon during the Clinton administration in a senior policy job and has been in and out of government in a variety of roles.
* As a Private Citizen, served on number of advisory boards, providing counsel to both Democratic and Republican administrations.
* Carter has worked closely with the only deputy defense secretary to rise to defense secretary, William Perry, who served in the Clinton administration.
* In addition to his academic positions at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has been a senior partner at the consulting firm Global Technology Partners and worked with the Aspen Strategy Group.
Did we run out of 4 star officers that could handle the job?
I cannot fathom any serious staffer willing to work for this guy and his other little middle school girls brandishing their mean streaks like a badge of spoiled courage.
RE: But is he a good commie?
From his background, doesn’t look like it...
0 fired them all
Another worthless academic hack with no real military experience...just what DoD needs.
..another FRIDAY news drop, late in the day, after the commute,and after Rush's broadcast...*smiling*
..here's another Odungo "pick"...Vanita Gupta to run the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division...typical ACLU missile twister who hates America,trailblazer, representing illegals and their "rights"
Ahh yes, Vanita Gupta. I remember her well.
Her first and most famous case, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), involved 46 African-Americans in Tulia, Texas, who had been convicted by an all-white jury on drug dealing charges.
In almost every case, the only evidence was the testimony of an undercover agent, Tom Coleman. Coleman did not use wiretaps, and records showed that he had “filed shoddy reports”, and had a previous misdemeanor charge for stealing gasoline from a county pump.
Gupta won the release of all of the defendants in 2003, four years after they were jailed, then negotiated a $5 million settlement for those arrested
..be interesting to check the names and see how many of them are back in jail with more serious convictions
Isn’t he an actor and was in the sitcom 2guys and a pizza shop or something like that?
Ashton is Mr. Stuxnet. He’s a DIA spook. Won the Defense Intelligence Medal. He was one of the few Democrats who supported Reagan’s Star Wars programs and helped with Bush’s deployment of our national missile defenses.
As with all things 0bama, 0bama picks people who he is dealing with closely (recently). 0bama is in the heat of his nuclear talks with Iran, so it stands to reason that 0bama has been spending time with Mr. Stuxnet (the virus that blew up Iran’s uranium centrifuges).
Sounds like he has never stood in a formation: a little too good to serve in uniform. That is typical.
Well, if that’s the case, then I certainly stand corrected.
He was funny on “That 70’s Show”.
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