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...fill Negroponte's job, President Bush today named former Navy Adm. Mike McConnell, now a senior executive at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, whose previous billets included heading the National Security Agency. McConnell had declined to step in as Negroponte's deputy when Michael Hayden left that job eight months ago to become the new CIA Director. McConnell is an affable, respected national security hand originally from South Carolina. It remains to be seen whether he'll fare better than Negroponte. It also remains to be seen whether McConnell's work for Booz Allen Hamilton, where...
...most accounts, Negroponte did a creditable job as DNI, rapidly building the organization's staff to more than 1,000 as he helped to push out former CIA boss Porter Goss, replacing him with Negroponte's own deputy, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden. But Negroponte was long rumored to be impatient with the intelligence job, and eager to return to his career as a diplomat. A likely replacement for Negroponte is retired Adm. Mike McConnell, who served as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992 to 1996 and is currently a senior vice president at the consulting firm...
...fans that saw them through the transition from Tufts University freshmen to hometown heroes, Guster embarked on a citywide tour of Boston last Friday, presenting a series of free performances. Perhaps the most exciting of these appearances took place in the Boston Museum of Science’s Charles Hayden Planetarium and included a multimedia spectacle in the vein of a vintage laser Pink Floyd show. The planetarium was an appropriate venue given the title of the band’s new album, “Ganging Up on the Sun,” which features the single...
...differently. Expert advocates will brilliantly argue all these possibilities, but each will have a fatal flaw: the expectation of a rational, cooperative reaction from the Iraqis. That is no longer possible. Iraq no longer exists as a coherent governmental entity. It is being atomized, according to CIA Director Michael Hayden, into "smaller and smaller groups fighting over smaller and smaller issues over smaller and smaller pieces of territory...
...Hayden's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee a few weeks ago was largely overlooked, but it is stunning. He called the level of violence in Iraq "satanic." He said that as the violence increases, "the center disappears, and normal people acting not irrationally end up acting like extremists." In other words, if you're a resident of Baghdad, the most rational response is to seek protection from one of the militias--al-Qaeda if you're Sunni, the Mahdi Army if you're Shi'ite--or to get out of town. "It's impossible to get your teeth...