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Government
Fifth Pentagon official announces resignation in seven days
2019-12-19
[The Hill] The Defense Department’s senior adviser for international cooperation earlier this week left the Pentagon, marking the fifth top official in seven days to leave or announce their departure.

Ambassador Tina Kaidanow, a longtime State Department official who began working in her Pentagon role in September 2018, resigned on Dec. 16, the Pentagon confirmed. Defense News first reported her departure.

"We appreciate her service to the department and wish her continued success. ... The department remains committed to the development and implementation of international cooperative programs and defense exportability efforts to foster cooperation with U.S. allies on research, development, production and support of weapons systems and related equipment," a Department of Defense (DOD) spokesman said in a statement.

"The department will not provide anything further on this personnel matter," the spokesman added.

Michael Vaccaro, the director for international armaments cooperation, will serve as the acting senior adviser.

Kaidanow’s resignation follows four other announced departures within a week.
Posted by:Besoeker

#19  Pic search suggests BIG change in appearance between roughly 2005 and 2010. Big like, "Hotei to full belly-backbone Buddha," "taking up marathon running and veganism" or "wasting away from dread disease." I'm guessing health was an issue.
Posted by: Gerthudion Glererong4555   2019-12-19 23:56  

#18  Leroy Jethro Gibbs: "If you cut it like this? I'll shoot you"
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-19 20:06  

#17  ..I understand its sort of a standard cut at the Pentagon barber shop, though a bit long in the back.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-12-19 19:07  

#16  ...Man, you can just about hear that haircut...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-12-19 18:22  

#15  Did these people who are resigning have some of those special lucrative relationships with defense industry lobbyists or just normal turnover? Swamp-dwellers??
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-12-19 16:00  

#14  Not DoD but certainly another Swamp Thing: Ambassador William Taylor to Resign.

Get 'em all outta here.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-12-19 14:13  

#13  Those include the Dec. 12 notification that top Asia policy official Randall Schriver would leave after two years on the job, the Dec. 13 announcement that top official in charge of personnel and readiness Jimmy Stewart had resigned after taking the role in October 2018 the Tuesday report that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency leader Steven Walker will leave in January, and the news earlier Wednesday that Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Kari Bingen submitted her resignation on Dec. 5 and will leave Jan. 10.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-12-19 10:08  

#12  She doesn't look like a "Tina" to me.
Posted by: Crusader   2019-12-19 10:00  

#11  The fifth top official in seven days to leave or announce their departure. Who are the other four? Is there a pattern?
Posted by: b   2019-12-19 09:57  

#10  Oh, of course ! Kaidanov.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-19 09:53  

#9  #7 Russian "Kaidanov"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-19 09:48  

#8  I was thinking Polish or maybe one of the three Baltic states myself, Dron.
Posted by: Raj   2019-12-19 09:47  

#7  The name sounds... Georgian ? Or Serb ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-19 09:33  

#6  So, is this swamp rat retiring or just going back to State? My $'s on the latter.
Posted by: Raj   2019-12-19 09:25  

#5  Is that a Ukrainian name like Vindman?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-19 08:43  

#4  Globalist knows 2020 is Trumps year
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-12-19 07:44  

#3  Beware the overbite.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-19 07:25  

#2  She looks like that bitter dimwit racialist Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). GTFO
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-19 06:27  

#1  Maybe they didn't want to move to Kansas,
Guess I don't either.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-12-19 05:32  

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