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...gays and lesbians: faceup. Then came the three regional problems -- Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti -- for which nobody in the Administration had real answers." The heaving and rocking of the Clinton White House as it struggles to define America's role in the world may prove to be Bobby Ray Inman's biggest vexation too. If the Secretary of Defense is supposed to symbolize the President's policy, maybe Les Aspin, with all his vagueness and indecision, did that job all too well...
...Though Inman will be the first career military officer to become Defense Secretary since George Marshall left the job in 1951, the admiral might not be any more forthcoming with the military than Aspin was. That's because, matters of style aside, the outgoing Secretary took few positions that led to friction with Pentagon brass. Though he came to the job willing to entertain the idea that the U.S should be prepared to use force selectively to solve regional problems like Bosnia and Haiti, he quickly became a defender of General Powell's all-or-nothing view that in places...
...Pentagon had become accustomed to light supervision by civilians under Reagan and Bush, when Defense Department officials routinely had their staff work done by uniformed personnel of the Joint Chiefs. Inman may be less likely than Aspin to fill Pentagon offices with former congressional aides. But if Inman's wise, he will fill posts more quickly. Aspin launched one of the major undertakings of his tenure, a "bottom up" review of military-force needs in the post-cold war era, even as dozens of high-level vacancies remained, including the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force...
Beginning as a shipboard cryptographer, Inman rose quickly. He became director of Naval Intelligence in 1974 and vice director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1976. In 1977 Jimmy Carter named him as head of the National Security Agency, the supersecret electronic eavesdropping and code- breaking service at Fort Meade, Maryland. He liked that so much it took a direct order from Ronald Reagan to move him to the deputy directorship of the CIA, where his probity was needed to balance the unpredictable chief spook, William Casey. In the process, Inman became the first naval intelligence specialist to reach four...
...turned out Casey was beyond balancing, and Inman resigned. He said later he understood how Robert Gates could have been kept in the dark about Irangate, because Casey had done the same thing to him on several plots. In any case, Inman said, "I am not a very good No. 2, so my year at the Defense Intelligence Agency and my 18 months at the CIA were not the happier times of my career." In the 1980s he headed a computer-technology venture and a defense-contractor company in Austin, Texas. Neither was a great success, but no one blamed...