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...after a personnel disagreement with then Director Porter Goss. But in the spy game, as in life, things can change quickly. Now Goss has resigned as director and Kappes, a respected CIA veteran, has agreed to return to Langley to serve under the new director, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden...
...That turned a hearing that had caused much anticipation in Washington into a bit of a bust. An hour into the Senate hearing, almost half of the members of the public in the audience had left; even Senator Trent Lott walked out, to return only near the very end. Hayden was so dull at one point that many in the room were listening more closely to the Fox TV correspondent who had forgotten to close the door to his broadcast booth and whose reports could be heard by almost everyone in the room. The Senators doing the questioning were...
...Still, Hayden surprised the Senators with his openness on a few issues. He questioned the use of intelligence by former Department of Defense Official Doug Feith, who had created an office in the Pentagon to explore the links between al-Qaeda and Iraq in 2002, comparing it to someone putting together a dossier on their child and including only negative information. He admitted he and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had some disagreements about the authority of the new national intelligence director. And in discussing the intelligence failures on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, his comments seemed to implicitly criticize...
...That candor earned Hayden praise from even one of the NSA program's strongest critics, Democrat Russ Feingold, a member of the intelligence committee and a likely 2008 presidential candidate. Feingold asked a few tough questions, but he repeatedly emphasized his strong respect for Hayden. His positive comments and those of other Democrats suggest Hayden will be confirmed easily as CIA director, as they continue to try to carefully criticize the NSA program without appearing weak on national security issues...
...about the West: Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Gaddafi personally met with top British and American spooks, including the then CIA covert operations deputy chief Stephen Kappes, who is now the leading candidate to become CIA Deputy Director under incoming head Michael Hayden. The Libyan leader became on a first-name basis with them and his officials took them out to Tripoli's faded restaurants...