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Octafish

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33. You know who else is a top rate grifter? CEO Carly the CIA Clotheshorse...
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 10:51 PM
Sep 2015

Sorry for the source, but it's a good example of what people who like her say:



The CEO and the CIA

How Carly Fiorina managed and advised the ‘poobahs’ at Langley.

by JIM GERAGHTY
National Review, May 5, 2015 4:30 PM

One week after 9/11, Michael Hayden, the director of the National Security Agency, the electronic surveillance arm of the U.S. government, had a long list of problems. High on the list was the fact that the NSA needed a ton of new high-tech equipment, particularly servers, right away, to handle a vastly expanded, critically important workload.

Hayden called up the CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina. “HP made precisely the equipment we needed, and we needed in bulk,” says Robert Deitz, who was general counsel at the NSA from 1998 to 2006. Deitz recalls that a tractor-trailer full of HP servers and other equipment was on the Washington, D.C. Beltway, en route to retailers, at the very moment Hayden called. Fiorina instructed her team to postpone the retailer delivery and have the driver stop. An NSA police car met up with the tractor-trailer and the truck proceeded, with an armed escort, to NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.

It was an early moment in the close professional relationship between Hayden and Fiorina. Five years later, President George W. Bush named Hayden director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Upon assuming control at Langley, Hayden decided that he wanted to create an ‘External Advisory Board.’ He once again turned to Fiorina, and she went on to chair that board.

The most obvious knock on Fiorina’s newly announced presidential bid is that she has never been elected to any government office. But during the Bush presidency, Fiorina walked the corridors of the CIA and other high offices of government, assembling recommendations for national-security policy and developing a close working relationship with some of the most powerful officials in the administration. She’s already begun to cite these years in an attempt to counter those critics who say she lacks the experience needed to be commander-in-chief.

When Hayden moved to the CIA, Deitz became his senior counselor. He served as the CIA’s main liaison to the advisory board, although he says Hayden and Fiorina had regular private lunch meetings.

“The board had a lot of egos — these were people from academia, retired three- and four-star generals, big poobahs from private industry,” Deitz remembers. “It was a challenging board to run. She would generally sit quietly, ask questions, but you never got a sense she was dominating or big-footing — but by the end of the meeting, she had gotten exactly what she wanted. . . . Polite, but you couldn’t push her around.”

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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417938/ceo-and-cia-jim-geraghty



Carly is code for money trumps peace, grifting where the real welfare bacon action is.

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Got it! Thanks! Ilsa Sep 2015 #1
Neil Bush got a billion dollars worth of free stuff, plus he didn't go to jail. Octafish Sep 2015 #14
Yep, an SBA loan as well, for Ilsa Sep 2015 #20
Are not campaign contributions "free stuff"? ZX86 Sep 2015 #2
Great point, ZX86. Takes money to make money. Octafish Sep 2015 #15
K&R. Well said. Overseas Sep 2015 #3
''Free Stuff'' doesn't mean free for all, just the criminal enterprise. Octafish Sep 2015 #16
Wow, the seemingly mild mannered sensible guy has been on the take for a long time. Overseas Sep 2015 #59
Oh, the BFEE is all about free stuff lark Sep 2015 #4
Amazing success, liberating all that loot from its rightful owners. Octafish Sep 2015 #18
Yet W. charges $100,000 a pop to "speak" to veterans of his criminal wars-that's freedom! bobthedrummer Sep 2015 #23
Rich people get free stuff all the time from republicans, but B Calm Sep 2015 #5
Rich through inside dealing and national policy, made a sure-thing by NSA etc War Inc racket. Octafish Sep 2015 #22
Hey, Jeb, go talk to Carly antigop Sep 2015 #6
How the Elite Talk in Code - Take Silverado Savings Neil Bush, please. Octafish Sep 2015 #29
Thanks, Octafish...great thread. nt antigop Sep 2015 #32
.... trusty elf Sep 2015 #7
Look at all the free footwear! Ed Suspicious Sep 2015 #8
I love that photo. Did he just say his brother kept ''us'' safe? Octafish Sep 2015 #30
Hey Octafish! trusty elf Sep 2015 #37
Ha! I wonder... Octafish Sep 2015 #45
Some of that "free" stuff vankuria Sep 2015 #9
That's the conservative way. Octafish Sep 2015 #31
Thank-you for the info! vankuria Sep 2015 #44
K & R AzDar Sep 2015 #10
You know who else is a top rate grifter? CEO Carly the CIA Clotheshorse... Octafish Sep 2015 #33
Free stuff? abelenkpe Sep 2015 #11
The $32 Trillion Hidden Offshore Needs IRS Attention. Octafish Sep 2015 #34
Like the Billions of Dollars Stryst Sep 2015 #12
Cheney Privatized Modern War Octafish Sep 2015 #35
Post removed Post removed Sep 2015 #13
Jeb. What you call "free stuff" the rest of us call "relief and opportunity. Ironically, and solely jtuck004 Sep 2015 #17
Guy's never worked a day in his life. Octafish Sep 2015 #39
thank you. niyad Sep 2015 #19
Hypocrisy, once exposed, really stands out. Octafish Sep 2015 #43
there are days it is hard to fathom the depths to which the bfee sinks. niyad Sep 2015 #57
Fair makes your head spin, doesn't it? LongTomH Sep 2015 #21
Free Stuff in Iraq. Octafish Sep 2015 #46
K & R. The Bush Family, nothing spells Free Stuff like them $$$. Thanks for this Ace post. appalachiablue Sep 2015 #24
Lots of Free Stuff falls off the Quarter Ton Truck o' War all the time! Octafish Sep 2015 #58
But it is just the BFEE! Tee hee giggles! Rex Sep 2015 #25
Bed wetters never explain why they love fascism. Octafish Sep 2015 #36
But they've worked hard scamming, conniving, conspiring, manipulating for all of our money..... Dont call me Shirley Sep 2015 #26
Four Generations of War, Wealth and Oil Octafish Sep 2015 #40
The evil runs deep in that family. bvar22 Sep 2015 #27
When Poppy laughed at 'deluded gunman' in reference to JFK assassination, it became obvious. Octafish Sep 2015 #48
Southern whites sure as shit loved the FREE LABOR they got for over two centuries! eom MohRokTah Sep 2015 #28
Bush family linked to slavery. Octafish Sep 2015 #42
Rothschild family linked to slavery. Octafish Sep 2015 #49
Bush and Rothschild families linked. Octafish Sep 2015 #50
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2015 #38
CIA Banks on Intelligence...(Betcha that led to lots of Free Stuff) Octafish Sep 2015 #51
The feeling is mutual, Octafish, Uncle Joe Sep 2015 #53
Trudeau hit that one so far out of the park Art_from_Ark Sep 2015 #41
Grand Slam. Octafish Sep 2015 #54
Heh MFrohike Sep 2015 #47
Tax Cuts are Free Stuff, especially the more stuff you already got. Octafish Sep 2015 #55
K&R&bookmark nt JEB Sep 2015 #52
BFEE cronies got MEGATONS of Free Stuff. Octafish Sep 2015 #56
K & R Quantess Sep 2015 #60
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