WASHINGTON - Strangely, for the same reason two large pieces of public and private, working in the same field with 'federal administration, had to resign. This is David Petraeus, the CIA director and the one who was supposed to be the future CEO of Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon's number one supplier, Christopher Kubasik, forced to leave for having an "intimate relationship" with a female employee. Wave of morality? Hard to believe. Just as it is customary to refer to public reasons "sputtananti" like this.
Are not the only departed in adjacent areas. Hillary Clinton leaves office, "Foreign Minister", apparently in preparation for the presidential elections in four years. It would also leave Leon Panetta, "Minister of Defense", which was about to give up the job by next spring.
With the re-election of President Barack Obama's chair Ben Bernanke, a number of Federal Reserve (Fed), the U.S. Federal Reserve, is instead saved until the end of his second term, which expires on January 31 of 2014, however, and will only half of the mandate to Obama. If the Republican candidate Mitt Romney had won, Bernanke would have been the first to jump, Romney has never hidden meaning to replace.
The extramarital affair that led to the resignation of David Petraeus as CIA director had lasted less than a year since his discharge from the army in August 2011 until the spring. It was the FBI to discover and bring out the dance-loving sex with his biographer Paula Broadwell. In particular, reported NBC, had begun an investigation into the mail Gmail staff of sixty former U.S. general and his biographer forty, "suspected of having attempted to improperly access his email with the possible aim of obtaining secret information. " It was this attempt, which dates back to last spring, to have precipitated the case, even more than the hundreds of erotic messages that Petraeus had continued to send former lover even after she had left him.
In fact, beyond the reasons given on national security, there are more serious reasons, the new way to manage the CIA as part of a former military man like Petraeus, the failure of September 11 in Benghazi, where the 007 had failed to prevent the assault on the consulate-based CIA he was killed Chris Stevens, Ambassador in Libya. John Kerry, the former presidential candidate in 2004 against Bush Jr., looks set to take up the legacy of Hillary Clinton for Foreign Affairs, closely Ambassadress to the United Nations Susan Rice (who is not a relative of Condoleeza). The waiver of Clinton to a second term is combined with the resignation of Petraeus: The CIA is the operational arm of Foreign Affairs is responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, societies, individuals abroad. The failure of Benghazi nearly cost him re-election of Obama.
In the same hour in which the case exploded Petraeus, also the world giant of defense Lockheed Martin was forced to resign his future CEO Christopher Kubasik, for having an "intimate relationship" with a female employee. The 51 year old manager has been publicly accused of violating the code of ethics which they impose a "proper conduct" for managers. Kubasik can be considered lucky, will have a severance pay of three and a half million dollars. Will be replaced by a woman, 58, Marillyn Hewson, vice president of electronic systems.
Kubasik was supposed to take over in January to Bob Stevens as CEO of Lockheed, who said he was "deeply disappointed and saddened" by the story but said that will not affect the Pentagon and other clients, nor for shareholders. It is probably disappointed for other events that may not be disclosed. In the case of Kubasik and Petraeus, in essence, seem to be entered into play risks of blackmailability, however, that for two of professionals that level rather to resemble a joke.
There are many other ministerial seats at stake, but it's normal rotation and renewals. There is, however, the Treasury Tim Geithner had announced some time that he would leave the administration after the election. As his replacement become the name of the chief of staff to Obama, Jack Lew and the former chief of staff to Bill Clinton, Erskine Bowles. But Obama could also turn to the world of finance focusing on another woman, as Suzanne Nora Johnson, former vice president of Goldman Sachs. Become the first woman to head the Treasury Department.
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ReplyDeleteAfter the shock resignation of David Petraeus hours Barack Obama needs to find a new director of the CIA that you will find 'faced with a very thorny question of the hearings that Congress intends to shed light on aspects not yet clarified the attack of September 11 at the consulate in Benghazi that killed the ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, including two CIA agents.
Just next week, Petraeus would testify before Congress on the matter which, however, ensure the administration, had no role in the decision of the general to resign after the discovery of his affair. The task of going to audition hours will pass' to MICHAEL MORELL, Petraeus's deputy since 2010, which has now assumed the role of interim director of the CIA.
The head of analysis for the Asia Pacific and Latin America, Morell in recent years has been able to win the respect and confidence of President Obama during the daily briefing at the White House and it highlights the "enormous respect it enjoys within the intelligence community and the entire security sector ", fanning the hypothesis of a final confirmation.
Obama could then put a woman at the helm of the CIA, JANE HARMAN, former California Congressman, and that 'was until last year the Commission Services, and now it' to lead the Woodrow Wilson Center, says the list of candidates drawn up by Politico.
It would not be the first time that Obama is addressed, rather than a military or internal CIA, a politician, and as' was the first director appointed by him, Leon Panetta, focusing on the experience in dealing with Congress. Not to mention that also the current Pentagon chief and 'established himself as the director of the operation that led to the death of Osama bin Laden.
E 'instead of an' internal 'CIA JOHN BRENNAN, current counter-terrorism adviser in the White House, after being on the side of George Bush, as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and have been chief of staff of the former CIA Director George Tenet. And belongs to the security team at the White House for another candidate, Tom Donilon, National Security Advisor to Obama, who instead comes from the diplomacy and has no military experience, although he managed directly with the president's strategy in Afghanistan.
Finally, the list of possible new directors of the CIA contains two other politicians, but one ', JACK REED, Senator from Rhode Island, with a solid military experience behind it that makes it a candidate for a long time at the Pentagon. Against this hypothesis, however, 'play the balance in the Senate, where Democrats have a narrow majority.
In case of appointment and resignation from the Congress of Reed, his deputy should be appointed in fact, waiting for the next election, the governor and that 'an independent and could then appoint a senator is not aligned with the Democrats. E 'instead of a veteran of the Senate resoundingly defeated the Republican primary by a Tea Party candidate who then' was defeated Tuesday 'last, the last candidate for the seat left by Petraeus.
DICK LUGAR, leader of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate GOP incumbent, which in recent years has taken moderate positions, as well as criticism of the foreign policy of George Bush, which made it next to Obama, with whom he has a personal relationship of friendship when the senior senator already 'twice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee, accompany' missions abroad then a young senator from Illinois.