PETRAEUS DROPS OUT

[kpete]

Former CIA chief David Petraeus has dropped out of consideration for the post, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Petraeus held command posts in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and served as CIA director under Obama. He quit as CIA chief in 2012 and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials relating to documents he had given his biographer, with whom he had an affair.

Harward, a senior executive at Lockheed Martin and former Navy SEAL, declined Trump’s offer in part because he wanted to bring in his own team, according to two sources familiar with Harward’s decision.

The White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, told Fox News on Friday that Harward’s family “didn’t sign off” on him taking the job


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-scrambles-to-find-top-national-security-aide_us_58a7d054e4b037d17d2820bc?ynct0hlutobn75jyvi&

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/national-security-adviser-chaos-235162

[Sherman A1]

1. Ah, too bad

and I was so hoping.....

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Mixed feelings. Now John Bolton has a 50% chance of getting the slot.

[underpants]

6. Yes he is sitting out there waiting for some kind of position

But I don't know how linked he is to the Trump crowd or if Bannon wants him around.

[dawg]

8. He has trimmed back the 'stache a little ...

so I think he's probably a lock.

[Vinca]

3. I don't see how Petraeus could have gotten a security clearance.

[jaxind]

4. Don't be PC

I wish Harward and Petraeus wouldn't be so politically correct, and would just come right out and say that they would never work under tRUMP's chaotic, bungling administration!! Don't use the euphemism that you wouldn't have control of your staff or that you need more time with your family. Come right out and tell the country that this is an unhinged President, who is running a bungling administration! The republicans love to say that we shouldn't be so PC, so don't be so PC, and come out and tell it like it is!!

[underpants]

5. I think the staff thing is them trying to mark their ground against Bannon

Yes they really are saying that they don't want to work anywhere near this clustertrump. They also don't want to have a staff made up of someone else's choice especially not Bannon.

[BeckyDem]

7. What else can it be but Bannon as the main reason? He is a sick man and a control freak.