Saturday, October 09, 2010

National Insecurity Provider

So, now that General Jones is out as National Security Advisor --- you want to know what I think of his replacement?

Well, you need to head over to
BigPeace to find out.
UPDATE: It is even worse than what I put over at BP.

A little inside info from someone who was at Fannie Mae on the inside at the time:
"...he was a nice guy and a good lawyer and built up his fiefdom but he was pretty political. Like most of the senior people at Fannie Mae who had law degrees, he thought like a lawyer when it needed people with more business backgrounds. The lawyers only wanted lawyers in charge because they thought they were the smartest people in the room but didn't understand processes and lacked an operational mindset."
A great question for him is, what was a lawyer mindset with no national security background going to bring to the NSA job?

One more little nugget to let you know what an inbred line professional DC people are: the guy who replaced Donilon at Fannie Mae was David Gregory's wife. It will be interesting to see how Gregory handles him on Meet the Press.

Yep, you need to take a bath now.