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...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, chary of Blair's independence, passed him over as a possible chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...Director of National Intelligence, Retired Admiral Dennis Blair will oversee the nation's sprawling complex of 16 intelligence agencies, a post he comes to having already served as a top CIA official near the end of a 34-year Navy career. He capped off that career as head of the U.S. Pacific Command, which makes him more Asia-centric than most past national-security appointees. He's good at running large bureaucracies; the Pacific Command covers more of the globe than any other...
...While leading IDA, the think tank assessed the wisdom of a multiyear contract for F-22 fighter jets while Blair was serving on the board of one of the F-22 project's subcontractors. The issue led him to give up his IDA post and the Pentagon inspector general to conclude he had violated conflict-of-interest rules...
...bring an admiral who last served in the Pacific out of retirement seems to me to be ignoring a great deal of expertise that's available in the still-serving military. So I would think that, with all respect for Admiral Blair, there was a lot of people who would have been a better choice." - Michael Scheuer, ex-CIA bin Laden chief, January 6, 2009, the Newshour with Jim Lehrer...
...basic obligations of public service are undermined when an official has a financial interest in the projects his organization is overseeing. Blair's struggle to recognize that what he did was wrong makes him a troubling selection." - Danielle Brian. head of the Project on Government Oversight, on the Pentagon IG finding Blair violated conflict of interest rules during his IDA stint, January...