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Home Front: WoT
New intelligence director may be named
2005-01-02
President Bush is expected to name the first director of U.S. intelligence as early as this week part of the changes resulting from the Sept. 11 commission. The White House has been silent on the appointment, but some administration and intelligence officials said a leading candidate is John Lehman, a Republican member of the Sept. 11 commission and former Navy secretary. However, more than a dozen intelligence professionals interviewed by the Boston Globe said the commission recommended changes do not address the system's biggest problems: a lack of accurate intelligence coming in from the field and a shortage of skilled analysts. "It does little to address analytic and collection capabilities," Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counterterrorism center, told the Globe. "I am not optimistic the so-called reforms are going to lead to quality intelligence. It does nothing to remedy the poor source information we have had."
Posted by:Fred

#2  Agree with com, not Lehman. Not Lieberman (Joemenum) either, although I suspect that he was never in the running to begin with.

We don't need anyone from the 9/11 farce.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-01-02 6:18:04 PM  

#1  Not Lehman! I've read quite enough post 9/11 Commission idiocy and bullshit from this guy to know his head's in tilt! mode. There are better people than Lehman out there. Somewhere in the 53% of the 295 million Americans is someone who can fill this position and maximize its potential for good. Correcting authority oversights - actually they're political turf issues by various House and Senate committees who get "face time" on TV to pontificate issues - will be a hard slog, but definitely worth it.

No Lehman, puhleeze.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-02 3:42:55 PM  

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