Its Friday ... time for a laugh !

[mr_anderson]

I found this by accident.
Honestly, try reading this article from 2007 without laughing !

Some gems …

Ex-CIA Intelligence Chief Jami Miscik was wrong about WMD in Iraq. But in her new career, Lehman brothers depends on her to say where it’s safe to put billions. An exclusive tale of intrigue and redemption from Fortune’s Patricia Sellers.

“Here at Lehman, people are risk takers. They want to understand the situation and the smart risk to take, because smart risk is opportunity.”

A fourth mistake, the CIA’s use of inherited assumptions, is most troubling to Miscik because it’s a common trap in any analytical task. “A senior analyst trains a junior analyst and passes on his view, which that junior analyst passes on to the next analyst. You need to rigorously examine inherited assumptions and at all costs avoid groupthink.”

To Miscik, however, getting another job in the capital wasn’t an option. Kissinger told her, “In Washington, no matter what you move on to, you’re always known as ‘the former.’” Miscik didn’t want to be a former anything. “I wanted to prove to myself that I could do something totally different,” she says.

Miscik no longer carries the burden of looking out for the overall security of Americans, which comes as a relief to her. Any miscalculations will have an impact only in dollars.

money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134938/index.htm

[Septic_Crank]

Wait, it get’s even better. Guess what she’s been doing since the Lehman bust?

dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/200 … burghardt/

What do we know about Jami Miscik, Obama’s other intelligence transition team leader ? According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Miscik “served as Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration from 1995 to 1996.” In the run up to the Iraq war, Miscik played a key role in concocting fake intelligence about Iraq’s alleged “weapons of mass destruction” and “links” to al Qaeda that were used by the Bush administration to sell the war to the American people. During this period, as head of the CIA’s analytical division she suppressed reports from Company analysts that rejected Bushist claims as unfounded.

More recently, Miscik was “the Global Head of Sovereign Risk at Lehman Brothers” according to the CFR. “In this capacity,” Miscik’s biographers write with a straight face, “she assesses geopolitical and economic risks for the firm’s senior management and clients.” But with the multi-billion dollar collapse of Lehman Brothers amid allegations of massive fraud and management corruption, the failed firm is now under investigation for dodgy “structured products” and “mini-bonds.” One can only wonder what advice the incoming Obama administration would seek from Miscik or indeed from CFR!

Worked for Bush. Now for Obama. Change you can believe in!

[tulip]

In her modest office in Lehman’s Midtown headquarters, the woman who once commanded more than 1,000 CIA analysts has few artifacts on display, but one stands out for its assertion of bring-it-on street cred: a coffee cup embossed with a photo of her wielding an enormous gun. Would that be an automatic weapon? “I don’t know,” Miscik replies. When asked if we are to believe that a former spy wouldn’t be curious, she laughs conspiratorially.

Where do they get these people from? Someone needs to tell her she’s not Chuck Norris

[tulip]

@Septic Crank

Wait, it get’s even better. Guess what she’s been doing since the Lehman bust?

dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/200 … burghardt/

What do we know about Jami Miscik, Obama’s other intelligence transition team leader ? According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Miscik “served as Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration from 1995 to 1996.” In the run up to the Iraq war, Miscik played a key role in concocting fake intelligence about Iraq’s alleged “weapons of mass destruction” and “links” to al Qaeda that were used by the Bush administration to sell the war to the American people. During this period, as head of the CIA’s analytical division she suppressed reports from Company analysts that rejected Bushist claims as unfounded.

More recently, Miscik was “the Global Head of Sovereign Risk at Lehman Brothers” according to the CFR. “In this capacity,” Miscik’s biographers write with a straight face, “she assesses geopolitical and economic risks for the firm’s senior management and clients.” But with the multi-billion dollar collapse of Lehman Brothers amid allegations of massive fraud and management corruption, the failed firm is now under investigation for dodgy “structured products” and “mini-bonds.” One can only wonder what advice the incoming Obama administration would seek from Miscik or indeed from CFR!

Worked for Bush. Now for Obama. Change you can believe in!

Maybe they’re going to ask her what she would do in a given situation, and then do the opposite.

[yoganmahew]

@tulip

In her modest office in Lehman’s Midtown headquarters, the woman who once commanded more than 1,000 CIA analysts has few artifacts on display, but one stands out for its assertion of bring-it-on street cred: a coffee cup embossed with a photo of her wielding an enormous gun

. Would that be an automatic weapon? “I don’t know,” Miscik replies. When asked if we are to believe that a former spy wouldn’t be curious, she laughs conspiratorially.

Where do they get these people from? Someone needs to tell her she’s not Chuck Norris

Actually, it wasn’t her, it was Mr. O’Dea…

[Superted]

Laughed very hard today when I heard on the radio that O’ leary is thinking about charging people to use the toilet on his planes

[spqr64]

You know what will happen there dont you, people will piss in plastic bottles the staff will kick up and he will be told to piss off or something stronger.

[Ivor_Lot]

@spqr64

You know what will happen there dont you, people will piss in plastic bottles the staff will kick up and he will be told to piss off or something stronger.

I don’t think people would do that.