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...National Security Agency's no-warrant wiretapping program after it was exposed in December that he helped turn a simmering scandal into a political win for the Administration--to a degree that President George W. Bush might have hoped for another assist when he nominated Hayden to replace Porter Goss as CIA director. "In personal appearance, [Hayden] kind of invites you to underestimate him," says a former national-security official who knows him. "Do not underestimate this...
Some lawmakers, like Goss's friends House Speaker Dennis Hastert and fellow Republican Peter Hoekstra, who heads the House Intelligence Committee, say they worry about putting a military man in charge of the CIA when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been expanding an empire that already absorbs about 80% of the U.S. intelligence budget. In that view, the CIA needs to remain an independent counterweight to the Pentagon, another set of eyes, ears and instincts, not become a subsidiary of it. But Hayden has hardly been acting like a covert Rumsfeld agent. In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services...
...source observed. That energy, along with his alliances throughout the intelligence community and his standing on the Hill, could help Hayden rebuild morale at an agency that has suffered from public failures and private infighting. Many officers in Langley, Va., were ecstatic over the news that the unpopular Goss was leaving and that Hayden hopes to make Stephen Kappes--a respected veteran of covert operations who quit on Goss-- his deputy...
...brief e-mail to the CIA workforce Friday after the warrants had been executed, Director Porter Goss said the CIA was cooperating with the searches, but added that the developments were "disappointing," officials said. Agents coordinated the searches with the CIA's internal inspector general's office, sending in officers from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the Pentagon's Criminal Investigative Service and the San Diego U.S. attorney's office that is prosecuting the Cunningham case. Senior officials at the CIA were told about the search warrants immediately before the searches, says a law enforcement official. A CIA spokesperson...
...unclear exactly what Foggo's employment status is now at the agency. Foggo's departure had been in the works even before Goss's surprise retirement announcement last week, an intelligence official tells TIME, as Goss had viewed developments in the Cunningham case "as a distraction...