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Originally Posted by Dusty
Allergies my ass.
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Most of the people seated in the room look unenthusiastic, uncomfortable, and out of their element. One whose expression differs is the attractive young woman in the back of the room, about whom, no one seems to have much familiarity.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...=hp:mainpromo3
….Who's the woman peeking her head from the back? A White House caption for the photo identifies her as Audrey Tomason with title "Director for Counterterrorism." But in a room full of oft-cited and quoted people, there's fleetingly little published information about who she is or what she does for the administration.
The presence of Tomason is notable for a few reasons. Next to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she's the only other woman pictured in the testosterone-filled room. And she appears to be the only person under 40. But what matters most is that she is standing just a few feet from the president, who is otherwise surrounded by his closest advisers, as they watch one of the country's highest-stakes operations in decades as it occurs in real time….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml
http://www.tuftsgloballeadership.org...ic-alumni/1997
Audrey Tomason worked as Americorps*VISTA and Associate at ACCION International after Tufts. She is attending the Kennedy School's master's in public policy program and is scheduled to graduate in 2003.
ACCION is a micro-lending group. Sounds similar to what the president’s mother once did for a living.
http://www.accion.org/#
http://www.accion.org/Page.aspx?pid=2274
Assisting Small Businesses in Cuba: Recommendations for Private and Public Sector Leaders.
Earlier this year, the Center for Financial Inclusion in collaboration with the Cuba Study Group and the Americas Society/Council of the Americas hosted the Cuba Small Business Summit in New York. The Summit brought together experts in the fields of microfinance, business education, and economic development to identify ways to support small and microentrepreneurs inside Cuba.
Out of this summit emerged a whitepaper entitled: “Supporting Small Business in Cuba: Recommendations for Private and Public Sector Leaders.” The report outlines specific steps that the Cuban government, the U.S. government and other players can take to support the growth of micro and small businesses in Cuba. It is being released just days before the Communist Party of Cuba celebrates its sixth congress.
Someone, presumably the White House, has put up a Wikipedia bio on her in the last 24 hours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tomason
....She previously was working in the Alec Station as one of the few analysts who had a deep knowledge of al-Qaida before 9/11. The Station opened in 1996, was an "interdisciplinary" group, drawing on personnel from the CIA, FBI, NSA and elsewhere in the intelligence community. Formally known as the Bin Ladin Issue Station, it was codenamed Alec Station, as referred to by Able Danger liaison Anthony Shaffer.[1]
She is suspected of being the CIA analyst involved with the case of German citizen Khalid El-Masri, who was captured and taken to a secret prison in Afghanistan for interrogation (with implications of torture) in 2003.[2]
She now runs the CIA's Global Jihad unit, the counterterrorism squad dedicated to hunting down al-Qaida worldwide. She regularly briefs Panetta, making her an influential voice in Obama's intelligence circle....