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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCarly Fiorina was BFFs with the guy who burned the CIA torture tapes
Back in the early 2000s, when she was busy running Hewlett-Packard into the ground, she made enough time to personally divert shipments of servers to the NSA on the request of NSA Director Michael Hayden, she told Isikoff, so that the NSA could start up its warrantless wiretapping scheme. She's also apparently BFFs with Jose Rodriguez (the notorious CIA goon who boasted of destroying the videotapes of the agency's interrogations), personally recommending him to be a CIA spokesman. No word yet if Fiorina would consider Angelo Mozilo for Treasury secretary.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carly-fiorina-national-security_5609537de4b0768126fe19ca
http://theweek.com/articles/579913/why-republican-party-keeps-lying-about-torture
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Carly Fiorina was BFFs with the guy who burned the CIA torture tapes (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2015
OP
She's SO ignorant and insane she thinks calling a man "small" is a great compliment! Do these liars
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#2
Bad resume, bad judgement and bad decisions just about everywhere you look with Fiorina.
stevenleser
Sep 2015
#4
Octafish
(55,745 posts)1. Groomed by the MIC to be the CEO of the CIA.
Sorry for the orginal gangster VRWC source, but it's a good example of what, uh, conservative people who like say about Cheney's replacement:
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 Fiorinas 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. Shes 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 CIAs 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 couldnt 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.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)5. Make that "Advi$$$$$ory Board."
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)2. She's SO ignorant and insane she thinks calling a man "small" is a great compliment! Do these liars
actually BELIEVE their twaddle and blather about "the safety of the nation"?
WE ARE SAFE, FGS.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)3. Well isn't that special....
She's a real piece of work isn't she?!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)4. Bad resume, bad judgement and bad decisions just about everywhere you look with Fiorina.
In other words, a typical Republican candidate for President.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)6. Furthermore, who needs a woman who wants to out-hawk, out-CiC a man?