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Biden forces legendary CIA chief of Iranian operations to retire
2021-10-21
[Yahoo] The CIA’s Iran chief, described by his colleagues as “legendary,” is being forced to retire as the center he oversees is folded back into the agency’s larger Middle East division, according to former CIA officials.

The official, Mike D’Andrea
...more formally Michael D'Andrea, but appropriately not until now found in the Rantburg archives under either ...
— nicknamed the “Dark Lord” or “Prince of Darkness” and known by the undercover name "Roger"— had been granted waivers that allowed him to continue working at the CIA past the mandatory retirement age, according to former agency officials. But the agency declined his most recent retirement exception, according to these officials. D’Andrea’s retirement was first reported by the New York Times.
Posted by:Gleash Unuter7442

#11   Yaknow, when you voluntarily and with gusto adopt the dark robes of villainy

Angel of Death? Or perhaps, as appropriate for a convert to Islam, Inshallah, as a sentiment all pious Moslems should submit to.

The thing about having a rapid turnover in the upper levels of any organization, especially when resulting from rapid death in office rather than retirement, is the huge amount of institutional knowledge that evaporates, until nobody knows what projects are planned, what any of the computer passwords are... nor even where the spare executive bathroom key is kept.

This, my dear Mr. McCoy, is a good part of the reason why ambitious jihadis chose suddenly to run off to ISIS and other local organizations instead of hieing themselves off to the training camps on both sides of the Af-Pak border as they’d done so avidly in the first decade of the millennium.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-10-21 18:20  

#10   “Prince of Darkness”
Always and forever will refer to Lucas Electric.
(Loose Unsoldered Connections And Splices)
Posted by: Glenmore   2021-10-21 15:31  

#9  Herb@l Herb!
Posted by: Caesar Speasing3432   2021-10-21 15:25  

#8  ^ Herb, is that you?
Posted by: Frank G   2021-10-21 14:45  

#7  nicknamed the “Dark Lord” or “Prince of Darkness”

“He was the grim reaper for the enemy.” The agency’s counterterrorism program under D’Andrea was “bone-crushing and relentless,” recalled this former official.

Yaknow, when you voluntarily and with gusto adopt the dark robes of villainy, maybe you need to reconsider if you're really on the good guys' side or not. Murdering civilians with drones doesn't strike me as heroic behavior.

“There came a point where the life expectancy of the al-Qaida chief of operations was about a month,” said the former senior official. “Every time they’d name a new guy, bam, he was gone.”

Boy, that put an end to them, didn't it? Oh wait it didn't. Whoops.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064   2021-10-21 14:00  

#6  Unrestricted drone warfare against our prime terrorist enemies, can't have that anymore since the puppet Weekend at Bernie's President is immune to actual accountability. As long as Bidet/Jillie can be fed more graft, they will prop up the Big Guy as a facade for the cabal at Kalorama. While the Chinese have the biggest chair at the Presidium Central Committee, ValJar and her homies have a seat, and doing this guy has long been a goal I suspect.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-10-21 13:27  

#5  What's the muzz equivalent of an Easter & Christmas Catholic?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-10-21 09:04  

#4  The article stated he was a convert to Islam.
Posted by: Lonzo Hapsburg5562   2021-10-21 08:55  

#3  ^ from or to?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-10-21 08:27  

#2  Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't D'Andrea another CIA Muslim convert?
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-10-21 08:15  

#1  The Fell Hand of Kalorama strikes. Anybody seen ValJar lately? Gone to Tehran, perchance?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-10-21 01:42  

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