Intel Chief, GOP Leader Reach Compromise

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - Ending a challenge to the authority of the new national intelligence director, a top House Republican agreed to drop his insistence on a provision that would have curbed John Negroponte's ability to shift personnel from one spy agency to another.

After a meeting with Negroponte, House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said he had reached a compromise with the intelligence chief that would give Hunter input when Negroponte wants to move Defense Department employees.

"We'd have a personal meeting before any folks are transferred, and he would give serious considerations to any objections or recommendations that we might make," Hunter said in an interview Thursday night.....
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It also means the intelligence chief survived an early test. Advocates for Negroponte, who took over in April, said this turf war would define his ability to succeed.

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