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Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes
CWmike writes "The fallout from Thursday's arrests of a District of Columbia IT security official and contractor quickly raised questions about the fate of Vivek Kundra, the new federal CIO who until recently ran the office now mired in bribery allegations. Appointed by President Barack Obama as CIO less than two weeks ago, Kundra was CTO for the District of Columbia. But yesterday, Kundra's former office in a downtown government building was a crime scene. A White House official, speaking on background, confirmed today that Kundra took a leave of absence from his new CIO job shortly after federal investigators arrested two men in the DC government office on bribery charges. The official would not elaborate on the reasons for the leave; there were no indications yesterday that Kundra was involved in any wrongdoing. Kundra's decision could slow his plan to create a 'revolution' in the federal government's use of technology."
They should have gone with someone with a cooler name. Like Padmasree Warrior her name kick's Wolf Blitzer's name any day of the week and she's better looking too.
In Sanskrit-derived hindi, Vivek means "wisdom". Obviously you're proposing we discard brains for brawn.
You're assuming the Obama administration has brains to discard.
At best, your assumption lacks supporting evidence.
You are assuming that my assumption lacks evidence. Let me be clear here: in Soviet Russia, evidence lacks assumption.
Yeah, it's the excess brains of the Obama administration that has caused them to:
1. Pick a Commerce secretary that had to quit.
2. Pick another Commerce secretary that had to quit.
3. Pick as CTO a person who had a direct report running a massive contracting scam for five years.
4. Pick as a senior intel officer someone who has been on Chinese and Saudi payrolls, who has gone on the record whitewashing the Tianneman Square massacre, and when held accountable ranted, "It's the JOOOS!!!!"
Yeah, it's their excess brains that are causing them to recycle Dimwit Carter's tax-and-spend economic orgy FAILURE of the 1970s at the rate of something like a billion dollars a minute - literally.
The only reason Obama is in office now is because the media overlooked all this obvious-in-hindsight crap because of the tingle he sent of their collective leg.
Don't think this is obvious?
Ever seen those videos of Obama off-teleprompter? You know, akin to the ones the media would repeat ad nauseum if Bush would slip up?
No, the media buried videos of Obama being a mouth-breathing babbler when he's off his teleprompter.
So, I say again: there's no evidence whatsoever that the Obama administration is gifted with brains at all, much less enough excess to be able to discard any.
All you Obama enablers will now reap the results of the rancid political climate you've sowed for 8 years.
And don't you just love how the media has pretty much stopped giving Obama a pass for his corrupt connections?
Guess what?
That's not going to stop.
With the Democrats in power across the board, the need for the media to fill up empty pages and empty air time with relevant news/crap means the only viable targets are Democrats. So the standard pass Democrats get is over.
Although Dems still aren't held to the same standard as Republicans are. Don't think so? Grow a pair and research how Nancy Pelosi uses Air Force jets as her private taxi service and ask yourself why that's not all over the news.
This isn't corruption in Obama's administration (yet). It is corruption (an employee scam) in the D.C. government administration that was there before Obama came into office and which Obama's man was CTO of before becoming CIO.
The President's administration != local D.C. government.
The person who alerted the authorities was a DC electrical engineer that these two tried to include in their scam, and who went to the FBI fairly shortly after their proposal (more info from the washington post's article). Kundra was not the one who alerted the FBI.