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...while I wouldn't count on any major revelations, CIA Director Michael Hayden's declassifying this stuff is news, and good news at that. Hayden's plan is not only to draw a line under the past but make a point to this and future White Houses: Politicize intelligence and you'll find your name on the front page of the newspaper...
...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...
...plus a substantial but classified number of consultants. That's about double the staff envisioned in the law that established the DNI, and it only stoked the criticism that the new cabinet-level agency is an elephantine bureaucracy with a leadership vacuum; a permanent replacement for Hayden as deputy has still not been named, though an Army lieutenant general has been acting deputy DNI since mid-2006. (The deputy secretary of State post for which Negroponte is now headed has been vacant nearly as long...
...Director Negroponte has not had a confirmed deputy since May 2006, when General Michael Hayden left to head the CIA," the new Senate intelligence committee chairman, Jay Rockefeller, complained in a statement. "It is not acceptable for the top two jobs to be vacant at the same time. The leadership of the Intelligence Community is too important." Adding insult to injury, Negroponte had several times denied he might be moving to State, and the White House failed to notify Rockefeller in advance of the intelligence shuffle...
...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...