Top-Ranking Arab American Is Leaving State for Wall Street

[maddezmom]

Source: Washington Post

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 2, 2007; Page A13

Dina Habib Powell, the highest-ranking Arab American in the Bush administration, is resigning from her post at the State Department to join Goldman Sachs Group, a leading Wall Street investment house.

Powell, as assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs and deputy to Undersecretary of State Karen P. Hughes, played a critical role in the administration's efforts to bolster public diplomacy in the face of the wave of anti-Americanism that has swept the Arab world since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Her parents immigrated from Egypt and settled in Texas when Powell was 4 years old and she could not speak a word of English.

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As White House personnel director, Powell made recommendations on hiring and was one of four individuals -- the others were President Bush, Vice President Cheney and political adviser Karl Rove -- who knew whether a candidate was being accepted for one of the 4,000 jobs filled by the White House.

"She was the youngest assistant to the president, but she did not suffer any detriment in stature as a result of being young," said Joshua B. Bolten, White House chief of staff. "She had a lot of credibility with the senior staff and most importantly with the president."





Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/01/AR2007050101697.html

[bluerum]

1. And now she will be a mole for them, and push for transferring our

social security money to wall street.

The subterfuge is reaching a fever pitch - they are grabbing whatever they can before getting run out of town.

[Roland99]

2. Rice loses another aide as top Arab-American diplomat resigns

Source: AFP via RawStory

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lost yet another senior aide on Wednesday when Dina Habib Powell, the highest-ranking Arab-American in the US government, announced her resignation to join a Wall Street investment bank.

The departure of Powell, key architect of a Rice initiative to improve the United States' image abroad, was the third senior diplomat to quit in the past five days and the sixth so far this year -- an exodus that is expected to continue in the final 20 months of the Bush administration.

Powell, who at 33 is also one of the youngest senior State Department diplomats, is taking up a job at Goldman Sachs Group, department spokesman Tom Casey said. She is due to leave her State Department job in about two months.

Powell, whose parents emigrated from Egypt to Texas when she was a child, followed Rice to the State Department two years ago from the White House, where she directed the presidential personnel office.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Rice_loses_another_aide_as_top_Arab_05022007.html

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And another one gone and another one gone....

[CottonBear]

3. ...another one bites the dust. Rats fleeing sinking ship. n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. How in the hell...

Can someone consider giving a senior diplomatic position to someone only 33? Please don't tell me its because she's so smart or wise. Ain't no one in this maladministration that has the brains necessary to blow their nose.

[rodeodance]

5. she was from tx

[Supersedeas]

8. Texas connection plus high octane Bush loyal test means lifetime cronie cred

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Wasn't Goldman Sachs connected to UAE and the squirrelly ports deal last year?

[appleannie1]

7. Could she have been one of the high placed

females that worked for the madam for the pleasure of it?

[swimboy]

9. I think that is really inappropriate speculation

unless you have some documentation you are able to offer.

[rodeodance]

10. she went from 'personnel office" in WH to Diplomat in the State Dept. nice

[Roland99]

11. Wonder what an audit of her emails would reveal?

[klyon]

12. personnel office???

What can she tell us? Religious and idealogical requirements for employment?