Word: dci
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Deutch has been DCI for only one year, but rebuilding a CIA crippled by scandal and low morale isn't enough to satisfy his ambitions. His goal is to consolidate personal control over Washington's sprawling intelligence community, which consists of no fewer than 28 separate and often feuding organizations. Last week the President and the Senate gave him a giant boost toward that end. Indeed, Deutch is in the midst of one of the most impressive power grabs ever seen in Washington. At one point during last week's hearing, intelligence chairman Arlen Specter said the committee was "trying...
...tony Washington restaurant, he swaps spy stories with Senator Specter. Says Talbott: "The first words that come to mind when you interact with John: energy, enthusiasm, focus." All that helps shore up support for what Deutch truly wants: a concentration of intelligence-gathering power never possessed by the DCI...
...DCI was established in 1946 so that one person would oversee these unruly organizations. In the decades since, however, no director has had the inclination or clout to rein in these agencies. Deutch is doing just that. Instead of becoming bogged down in CIA business, as past chiefs have, Deutch has left the day-to-day operation of the agency to his executive director, Nora Slatkin, so he can spend most of his time overseeing the rest of the community...
...believe ultimately he will be the next DCI [director of central intelligence] and that he will be confirmed," David Boren (D-Okla.), said at a news conference on the eve of a committee vote on the nomination...