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BHO reshuffles cabinet: New faces, how many, who? & Update: Petraeus resignation
Large scale transition in the works
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Tim Geither and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood have all indicated they will not be onboard for Obama’s second term. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, found in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents regarding the ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal, is also mulling the possibility of leaving. In Holder’s case, the news becomes sullied with the floating of the name of Homeland INsecurity Chieftain and former Arizona governor, Janet Napolitano, as a possible replacement.
According to this post-election insight reportfrom the international law firm SNR Denton, other potential attorney general candidates include Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, and Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
Also said to be on fast track out the door are Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Scroll to pages 7, 8 and 9 for potential cabinet post vacancies and prospective replacements. Read more here on Beltway Confidential.
The idiom ‘better the devil you know than the devil you don’t,’ springs to mind.
Count Gen. David Petraeus out!
CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus has abruptly resigned after the FBI discovered his extra-marital affair with Paula Broadwell, the Harvard researcher who co-authored the biography of the retired four-star general. The book, “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,” was released earlier this year. Broadwell says she was “embedded” with the general in Afghanistan from July 2010 to July 2011 and was “afforded extensive access by General Petraeus, his mentors, his subordinates, and his longtime friends.”
Here she is on the Jon Stewart Show.
This is what is being called cringe-worthy. It is!
2012-11-10 17:01:14
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