CIA’s deputy director to be replaced with White House lawyer

Washington Post ^ | 6/12/13 | Karen DeYoung & Greg Miller

[Nachum]

The CIA’s deputy director plans to resign and will be replaced by White House lawyer and agency outsider Avril D. Haines, Director John O. Brennan said Wednesday. Haines, who will succeed career officer Michael Morell on Aug. 9, has served for three years as President Obama’s deputy counsel in charge of national security issues and as legal adviser to the National Security Council. Although she has never worked inside the intelligence agency, “she knows more about covert action than anyone in the U.S. government outside of the CIA,” Brennan said in an interview.

[88keys]

****** Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 7:21 PM This evening, President Obama nominated Avril Haines to be the next Legal Adviser of the State Department. Avril currently serves Deputy Counsel to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council.

That is pretty darned fast promotions...

Just wondering...does this latest appointment require any confirmation? I'm guessing, "NO"...

Speaking of liberal women in high political positions...also just wondering whatever happened to that other IRS woman, the one who was Lois Lerner's (or whatever her name is - the "plead the 5th after first making defense remarks" one) boss, I think? The other woman had a triple name, and if I recall, she left IRS just recently, and has apparently dropped off the radar for now...

[88keys]

Very interesting comments following the original WaPo article, too...that notoriously "conservative rag", LOL!!

Rock on, FRiend!

[uncommonsense]

"Anyone notice that all the evil people in O’s administration are women?"

I'm not sure they're all people...

[Darin1948]

Meaning Obama takes control of the CIA...and why not? NSA and the rest are acting under Presidential Decree.

Folks, we have ourselves a fascist dictatorship...

Who says it can’t happen here?

[Nero Germanicus]

I wonder what the Obama Administration has on General
“Gen. Michael Hayden, former National Security Agency Director under George W. Bush, praised the Obama administration’s transparency regarding the NSA’s surveillance of phone records.
“The Obama administration was more transparent .. than we were in the Bush administration,” Hayden told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday. “They made this metadata collection activity available to all the members of Congress, not just all the members of the intelligence committees.”

[Nachum]

Rock on, FRiend!

Ha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eQGqUfKbzk

[Henry Hnyellar]

Leon Panetta, the CIA Director prior to Petraeus never worked in intelligence too. And he was the Director. This is not new. It is bad however.

[1010RD]

“she knows more about covert action political cover ups than anyone in the U.S. government outside of the CIA,”

The original author mistyped it.

[1010RD]

The DC circuit also hears a lot of critical cases and Obama’s working to pack that court with liberals.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good Lord.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

White House lawyer and agency outsider Avril D. Haines