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Obama Administration Named Holly Petraeus to $187,605-Per-Year Job
CNS News.Com ^ | November 14, 2012 | Penny Starr

Posted on 11/14/2012 7:26:02 PM PST by GridSquare

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration named Holly Petraeus--wife of retired Gen. David Patraeus, who resigned last week as CIA director after revealing he had had an extra-marital affair--to $187,605-per-yer job in the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201101; 20110112; affair; benghazi; cia; doddfrank; federalreserve; happened2yearsago; hollypetraeus; hollypetreaus; paytoplay; petraeus; petraeusaffair; petreaus; readthearticle
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To: yarddog

I have heard the same comment from
4 others .


41 posted on 11/14/2012 7:59:51 PM PST by ncalburt (Axelrod Psych OPS has gone to 24/7 non stop - "The election is over " status until Nov)
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To: Vaquero

This is how things are done in IL. But they’ll still find a way to blame Bush.


42 posted on 11/14/2012 8:00:34 PM PST by virgil
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To: Uncle Chip

She spoke to us at the Keystone conference a year ago and was already in the position, IIRC.


43 posted on 11/14/2012 8:03:34 PM PST by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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To: cherry

“...this bimbo gets a $187,000 job?.....”

The Government Party excels at creating positions for one another....on our dime!!!


44 posted on 11/14/2012 8:04:49 PM PST by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: GridSquare

Institutionalized corruption.


45 posted on 11/14/2012 8:10:33 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: GridSquare

“...newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).”

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - “The Law” - Bastiat 1801-1850

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Even America’s finest and their spouses are looting us.

What happens in Benghazi stays in Benghazi.

President OPlunder???...he went to VEGAS BABY!

R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.


46 posted on 11/14/2012 8:11:27 PM PST by PGalt
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To: GridSquare

” - - - to $187,605-per-yer job in the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - - - “

Translation: A newly-created slush-fund Bureau pays long-term hush money to wife of fired General.

The Benghazi Murder Cover Up gets more serious every day.


47 posted on 11/14/2012 8:14:48 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Graewoulf

P4 is going to roll over. He sold out to evil a long time ago.


48 posted on 11/14/2012 8:16:09 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GridSquare

What a BS title. This happened nearly 2 years ago but CNS frames its headline to make it seem like some kind of recent “BRIBE” because of Libya or testimony.


49 posted on 11/14/2012 8:18:00 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: SoldierDad

Cloward Piven


50 posted on 11/14/2012 8:19:22 PM PST by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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To: goodnesswins

tagline update


51 posted on 11/14/2012 8:21:25 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: mojo114

She was hired in a transition team/start up position in Jan. 2011. Reads like she was just promoted today.

I suspect that she gave them the general’s head on a silver platter. Bet she knew EVERYTHING early on.


52 posted on 11/14/2012 8:21:48 PM PST by madison10
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To: madison10

P4 is going to roll over and says as follows: Ät first we thought it was a response to the video, then we learned later is was more coordinated”

Anyone expecting him to be truthful is delusional.


53 posted on 11/14/2012 8:23:57 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Nachum

Nachum, please include me!


54 posted on 11/14/2012 8:25:02 PM PST by Bubbette
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To: mojo114

I take back my post, you are correct. She did have the job earlier CNS is making this sound like a new position.

I’ll read better next time.


55 posted on 11/14/2012 8:26:48 PM PST by madison10
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To: GridSquare

Can’t we just pay these people to go away? I mean, seriously, it would be worth it, and over the long haul, cheaper.


56 posted on 11/14/2012 8:29:38 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: faithhopecharity

Radio host Glenn Beck referred to the University as “the dumping ground for the Center for American Progress” — a left-leaning advocacy organization — in his show on The Blaze on Monday, speculating that the Princeton presidency was an escape route for former CIA director David Petraeus GS ’87.

Beck said he was surprised Petraeus would want to “run the university where Van Jones is a professor. Where Peter Singer is a professor. Isn’t Cornel West [GS ’80] also a professor at Princeton?”

Jones and West, former Center for African American Studies faculty members, no longer teach at the University.

“I’m sorry, the university that has the Woodrow Wilson Center for Politics?” Beck said, presumably referring to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. “Really? You’re going to go run that? They’re going to embrace him?”

In late October, Beck predicted the Obama administration would blame Petraeus for the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stephens in Benghazi, Libya, in September.

“Petraeus is going to be the fall guy,” Beck said at the time. “They’re going to have him step down. They’re going to point all fingers to him. You watch. He goes to Princeton. I think he goes to Princeton.”

Four days after University President Shirley Tilghman announced she would retire in June, The Daily Princetonian reported Petraeus was seriously interested in the presidency of his graduate alma mater.


57 posted on 11/14/2012 8:33:47 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: madison10

It is not new but this is still a huge story. Obama was supposed to bring “transparancy” to Washington and avoid such old style patronage to unqualified cronies.

It is good that this predates the scandal because this ties the liberal general to Obama loyalty before his recent pro-Obama cover statements on Libya and his pro-faggot go-along and get-along position on military faggotry.


58 posted on 11/14/2012 8:34:05 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Bubbette

You got it :)


59 posted on 11/14/2012 8:34:57 PM PST by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Lucky9teen
“Petraeus is going to be the fall guy,” Beck said at the time. “They’re going to have him step down. They’re going to point all fingers to him. You watch. He goes to Princeton. I think he goes to Princeton.”

Makes sense. Boinking Broadwell may have cost him his CIA job, but it will be a feather in his cap and a plus in his CV as far as those yankee doodle universities are concerned.

60 posted on 11/14/2012 8:41:33 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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