Why is Negroponte taking a demotion ??

As the DNI, he was head of all the intelligence agencies, including the CIA. It seems that a Deputy Secretary of State would be a step down? This is rather strange. Does Condi plan of leaving and Negroponte needs some on the job training? What else could it be? If he were pissed off at Bush, he would probably just resign from the Administration altogether? Both he and Bush are snakes in the grass. He did work very closely with Gates in Central America, if my memory serves correctly? I wonder what's shaking??

Is the DNI not a Cabinet position??

The BLOOD on his hands? He wants to 'spend more time with the family?' Poppy offered him a ride on a small airplane? Pick one...

He started it after the election.

and the Gates connection really makes perfect sense...for snakebites, that is. :evilfrown:

I also think Condi may be facing some stiff winds from Congress and her lying to them...

I seldom do popcorn, but I think I'll have a large well buttered bucket.:popcorn:

there's some kind of "strategery" going on -- good post.

What's that spell?

Seems rather obvious how much of a puppet George Bush Jr. has probably been all along. They don't seem to be hiding it much now, if at all.

Iran/Contra figures seem to be back gracing the White House corridors.

It seems the one person George Bush Jr. has trusted has been Condoleeza Rice.

Negroponte is as cunning as they get. This is a very peculiar situation, to say the least, and one that causes me a bit of alarm. OTOH, everything that Negroponte does causes me alarm. :(

Didn't someone big in that heirarchy take a demotion to work at a "test" faclity which produced
something really useful for the PTB?

You know, all these heads and deputies have to be confirmed by our Senate. Is Joe Liberman not telling us something?

everyone knows she has no business being the sec of state. it`s a front for the whitehouse and she was inept at personally dealing with the rest of the world. they did not want anything more from her than to be a face who did what she was told. now negroponte is a whole different story......

It is not so much a demotion ffor Negro Boy.....It is either a shot across thee bow to Condi to start making plans for her retirement or....Condi knows she is going out and this is just a way to have an orderly transfer without making Bush look like an idiot again. The sloppiness of the Rumsfeld firing was not to be repeated. In a few months Condi can say ....I have decided to spend more time wiht my family.....if I can find any family" Negroponte would not transfer to a minor position without a quid pro quo in my humble opinion.

They want to play good cop bad cop. Condi is the nice face...Negro boy breaks the knee caps.

Maybe Maybe not.......

now that they have an in in the Cabinet

they want one of theirs to run state while they try to resurrect junior's reign, but they can't afford to embarrass their token negress.

I can't remember a weaker Secretary of State and Condi is most definitely the wrong person for these times. I'm sure her primary assets are that Bush likes her and she'll do whatever he asks, but that's a pretty sad basis to determine who should be representing our country to the world. The pool of qualified people willing to sign on to this administration are dwindling rapidly....who wants to be associated with the most corrupt and incompetent administration ever to be foisted on this country?

leaders won't listen to a female anyway. perhaps rice realizes how absolutely wrong she has been and what a detriment to this country she is.

Negroponte to State. Each time I hear about these moves, I think they are moving them into safe houses - places where they will be protected from investigations and subpoenas for past crimes.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the nations of Central American and in particular, spokepeople for those massacred brought suit against Negroponte? But, there must be some kind of statute of limitation? Sp?

Re Negroponte in Homeland Security. I would guess that his biggest role was to 'conjoin' intelligence operations. Did he get that started or is the DIA still trying to run it all?

Each time I see his face I think of the charades of respectability that is forced on us.

Whatever.

:evilgrin:

Seriously, the DNI was just another level of bureaucracy with no effective power. He can do more dirty work at State, hiding behind Kindasleezy's skirts and fuck-me boots.