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Obama Puts New CIO Vivek Kundra On Suspension
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- dschobel 18y agoI wasn't trolling, I voted for the guy (and fully did anticipate the reactionary karma downvotes) but I think it was a legitimate criticism of him that he's never had to run anything bigger than a senate office and I think it's showing here. I don't think anyone would argue that he's done a good job across the board of picking people since it usually takes the press one or two weeks to find major gaps in their resumes.
- pg 18y agoPlease don't start fights about politics.
- dschobel 18y agoI thought it was an objective criticism but I'll gladly delete it if you think otherwise.
- justindz 18y agoI say leave it and allow the voting system to work.
- palish 18y agoPlease don't start fights about meta-politics. </sarcasm>
- access_denied 18y agoWell, the voting system still works.
- throw_away 18y agoOT feature request: Would it be possible to add a little more head-space above [deleted] comments? When I first read your response, I was confused because the comment before it did not seem particularly inflammatory, and it was only later that I saw that yours was in response to a [deleted] post.
- staunch 18y agoThere's nothing intellectually stimulating about this post. It's standard political intrigue.
- TomOfTTB 18y agoWhen the raid story first broke here I wrote this comment in that thread... "More to the point, the Obama administration could have the worst vetting team in the world and they'd still be smart enough to ask the FBI if they had any active investigations on the appointee. It's too rudimentary a step to skip." I'm still sure the vetting team checked specifically into Mr. Kundra but I have to admit this makes them look a tad incompetent. They may not be the worst vetting team but the fact that the President seemingly didn't know this was coming does not reflect well on them or the Administration. (In my original comment I assumed the vetting team knew this raid was comming but disregarded it because there were no direct ties to Kundra)
- icey 18y agoIt does appear that he may have one of the worst vetting teams around; their capability for failure has been shocking.
- peregrine 18y agoI would argue that the vetting team should have discovered this right away. But it was responsible of him to suspend him and reevaluate his decisions. There is also the possibility that this was simply a political attack to discredit the Obama administration. God knows politics are a messy messy game.
- rbanffy 18y agoCan the vetting team ask the FBI for information on an active investigation on one of its job candidates? The FBI should never answer such a question and the mere idea they ever could is a bad sign the Bush administration did some very serious institutional damage.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoLast I checked, the FBI was part of the Executive Branch and answered completely to the president. There's no special agency that doesn't answer to anybody. As president, Obama is also responsible for enforcing laws. He has every right as part of the vetting process to give law enforcement agencies veto ability (or not). There are some special rules for the Office of Public Accountability, but they're for investigating officials already in power. Even then, I don't think you get around the Executive Branch running the FBI. The president, as chief law enforcement officer, can muck around in any ongoing investigation he deems he should.
- timf 18y ago"placed on leave out of 'an abundance of caution'" The headline seems misleading since "suspension" implies a punitive action.
- njharman 18y agoIt seems impossibly hard to find "clean" upper level government employees in Washington. This should really be more of a concern talking point with us citizens.