Bush wants CIA director more acquiescent to his streamlining goal

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p01s02-uspo.html

USA > Domestic Politics
from the May 08, 2006 edition

Task for CIA's next chief: push Bush's agenda
To the president, streamlined intelligence is paramount.

By Faye Bowers | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

The replacement of Porter Goss as head of the Central Intelligence Agency appears rooted in one presidential objective: to coordinate and streamline America's various intelligence agencies to "stop the terrorists before they strike."
Mr. Goss, who said Friday he would step down as CIA director after 19 months at the helm, reportedly defended the CIA's status quo too strenuously. In so doing, he ran afoul of John Negroponte, director of national intelligence who oversees 16 intelligence-related agencies, by balking at demands such as one to transfer several CIA senior counterterrorism officers to the newly created National Counterterrorism Center, which reports to Mr. Negroponte.

As a consequence, President Bush is likely to choose a CIA director more acquiescent to his streamlining goal - which may lead to a narrower role for the CIA. He is expected to tap, as early as Monday, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, a deputy to Negroponte and the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA).

"It would be key, from Negroponte's point of view, that there be no questions in the chain of command," says William Martel, an international security expert at Tufts University's Fletcher School of International Diplomacy in Medford, Mass. "My instinct is that Hayden will fit that mold well given his military background and that he's deputy to Negroponte."

The next CIA director faces a daunting task. The agency has lost much of its prestige, top people, and credibility since the reorganization of the intelligence community, which the 9/11 Commission had urged.

for the junta.

want to dictate.

:shrug:

Think blackmail.

Think insider trading too!

I think someone is about to pull the covers and expose their afternoon delights.

Probably intends to stop all that wasteful foreign spying so they can concentrate on domestic. :scared:

very possible.

They appoint people who are known to have future legal problems in order to do all possible to teflon them, if that's possible.

They keep moving the same people around and drop some. No new people enter the circle. A name may be new to us, but we find they have been there all along - and may go back to Iran-Contra or Watergate or even the assassinations. It demonstrates that the circle of operatives and those who must hold the secrets is very small.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Negroponte (the torturer), and now Hayden in charge of the CIA (deputy to Negroponte and head of the NSA domestic spying program). Combined with a weak Congress that won't defy Bush and an American public which can be scared to death just hearing Bush repeat the word 'terror', is anyone getting worried yet on what Bush's plans really are?

his syncophants into place any longer. The people and maybe some CongressCritters are starting to catch on that his choices haven't been so great for this country so far.

They'll remember that old saying Bush is so fond of: "fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

Everything republicans have done over the past 6 years has turned out to be a disaster, from stealing an election to 9/11 to the Iraq War and rapid worldwide growth of terrorist organizations through the destruction of the environment, Katrina, global warming, the crushing federal deficit, and this cesspool culture of corruption republicans have institutionalized, etc. ad nauseum.

Republicans absolutely SUCK at governing.

Extrapolating logically, given the republican miserable track record, how long will it be before another devastating terrorist attack occurs on US soil?

I think * wants someone to run the CIA who came from the same genepool as he did