New CIA #2 Pick is the former host of “Erotica Night” at a Baltimore bookstore

[avaistheone1]

The former host of “Erotica Night” at a Baltimore bookstore will be the first-ever female No. 2 official at the CIA.

On Wednesday, Barack Obama nominated Avril Danica Haines to be the deputy director of the CIA, replacing Michael Morell, who twice served as acting director of the agency but took much of the blame for editing the highly controversial talking points around the 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi. As a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office, Haines oversaw the approval process for the CIA's covert actions, acting as a vital link between the CIA and the president.

But 20 years ago, Haines opened and co-owned Adrian’s Book Café in the Baltimore waterfront neighborhood of Fells Point. She opened Adrian’s after dropping out of a graduate program in physics at Johns Hopkins University. The store featured regular “Erotica Nights.” including dinner and a series of readings by guests of published work or their own prose, according to a 1995 report in the Baltimore Sun; couples could attend for $30, while singles paid $17.

"Erotica has become more prevalent because people are trying to have sex without having sex. Others are trying to find new fantasies to make their monogamous relationships more satisfying,” Haines, then in her 20s, told the Sun. “What the erotic offers is spontaneity, twists and turns. And it affects everyone." (She also told Baltimore Sun reporter Mary Corey that friends heckled “you just want a mass orgy in your bookstore, while she and her co-owner were initially worried only "dirty old men" would show up.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/13/new-cia-2-pick-used-to-read-anne-rice-aloud-at-her-bookstore-s-erotica-night.html?source=socialflow&account=thedailybeast&medium=facebook

[AgingAmerican]

1. Sex is so unnatural

...and evil. It has no place in America.

[avaistheone1]

3. That is what I have been told.

[DJ13]

2. Finally

Some T&A in the CIA.

[avaistheone1]

4. Actually, I am fairly confident they have lots of that.

[gcomeau]

5. We give a crap because...? -eom

[avaistheone1]

8. Watch the attitude.

Your comment is being stored in a slick government bastardized hybridized metadata PRISM file beyond your progeny for all of eternity.

[gcomeau]

11. That's comforting... some of my little gems will live on after me. -eom

[SomethingFishy]

6. Good, maybe they'll stop compiling sex dossiers

on everyone...

[riqster]

7. Not a secret, so it's not a security risk

A pretty creative mind, too. Good luck to her.

[avaistheone1]

9. Oh can't you see the trouble?

Her father is a liberal activist {shudder}.

[CincyDem]

10. She "lusted in her heart"

I thought this went out with Jimmy Carter and Playboy in the 70's. Just some words on a paper and it's time to go all Nabakov on her. Sheesh. I propose that every politician who chooses to go after her on this one must first sign and affidavit that neither they nor their spouse (and/or mistress, and/or escort and/or hooker) have ever read 50 Shades.

We're talking about Anne Rice here for christ sake. Com'on. Interview with a Vampire, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater. Good book, bad movie.

Besides, it's not like Fell's Point in the early 90's was a hot bed of anything except some old lava lamps.

As usual - nothing to see here. Move along.