DEA chief resigns, takes Motorola job

[babylonsister]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/10/dea_chief_resigns_takes_motoro.php

DEA chief resigns, takes Motorola job

Karen Tandy, First Woman to Hold Top Drug Enforcement Post, Heads to Motorola

LARA JAKES JORDAN
AP News

Oct 22, 2007 12:06 EDT

Drug Enforcement Administration chief Karen Tandy said Monday she is resigning, officials said, ending her four-year tenure as the first woman to hold that post.

Tandy told employees Monday morning that she was resigning to take a job with Motorola, according to two DEA officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement was not yet public. It was not immediately clear what she would be doing for Motorola.

DEA spokesman Garrison Courtney confirmed Tandy's announcement but declined further comment.

Tandy was confirmed to head the DEA in July 2003. She is the first woman to serve as DEA administrator. The DEA's second-in command is also a woman: Michele Leonhart, who is a possible successor to Tandy.

The DEA is comprised of about 11,000 employees — including 4,600 agents — in the United States and in 85 counties.

[tridim]

1. "The DEA is comprised of about 11,000 employees"...

Yet it's still a complete failure, and Tandy managed to expand that failure even further. Why would Motorola hire away a failed bureaucrat?

[babylonsister]

2. Because 'failures' have made them wealthy?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=62515

[madokie]

3. oh but she's not a failure to them

in fact they prolly see her as very competent