NYT: Bush Selects General (not intel officer) to Run Defense Intel Agency

[DeepModem Mom]

Bush Selects General to Run Spy Agency
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: September 27, 2005


WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 - President Bush has nominated Maj. Gen. Michael D. Maples of the Army to be director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the first time in decades that someone who is not a career intelligence officer has been picked to lead the agency.

The appointment, announced Monday by the Pentagon, reflects Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's desire to put an officer who has used intelligence in the field extensively, but not produced it, in charge of an agency responsible for supplying information to battlefield commanders....

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General Maples, who will be promoted to lieutenant general if his nomination is confirmed by the Senate, is now vice director of the military's Joint Staff. In that job, he has tackled several politically sensitive assignments for the Joint Chiefs.

For instance, General Maples has been the point man for the Joint Staff on detainee policy and operations. He also coordinated the testimony of Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, before the Sept. 11 commission....

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Some career intelligence officers reacted with skepticism on Monday to General Maples's appointment.

"As an intelligence professional, I'm disappointed that the senior military intelligence job in the Department of Defense is not going to an intelligence officer," Vice Adm. Thomas R. Wilson of the Navy, a retired director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in an interview....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/politics/27pentagon.html

[MADem]

1. He is a FUCKING TOADY!!!!!!!!

"VD" of the JOINT STAFF!!! OK, I don't have to spell it out for you, the jokes are part and parcel of the staff assignment!!!!

That is like hiring your hairdresser to build your house--this is BEYOND THE PALE, and is on a par with the Brownie appointment.

Course, when you do not know the players, the media does not get excited, but this is FUCKING WRONG....

[Richard Steele]

2. Crooked, corrupt business as usual for B*shCabalInc™

[KoKo]

3. OMG...they are really "circling the wagons," in their insanity.

The RW Think Tanks must be firing on all cylinders trying to patch up this out of control group of crazies.

[kineneb]

4. When will Pres. Caligula appoint his horse? n/t

[Benhurst]

6. He'll never appoint a horse, because he's afraid of them! NT

[kineneb]

8. but he is running out of toadies

and how can he be a cowboy without a horse??:crazy:

[Benhurst]

12. Connecticut cowboys don't ride horses. NT

[Up2Late]

5. O.K., This settles it, he's doing this crap on purpose!!!!!!!!

Must figure, "Hey, nobody likes me anyway, so Screw them! he he he."

This Just in:

...John Kerry was quoted as saying, "...He's doin' this just to be a Dick..." John McCain, standing next to Sen. Kerry seconded that though saying, "Exactly."

[Polethebear]

7. Did Kerry say that????

For real??? If so when???

I'm thinking about what my father said saturday when I told him about the FDA and the good vet. "Second terms are when you payback favors" or something to that effect. But even then.........

[Up2Late]

9. No, just me wishing he (or anyone) would say something like that

Sorry, forgot the smiley.:blush: :hide:

[Polethebear]

10. Oh,

No problem,it would have been cool though:-) ;)

[cyberpj]

14. nya...nya..na..na..na.....

[wakeme2008]

11. Just like the Vet that Toady wants to head

woman's health issues. :grr:

[cyberpj]

13. Bush Admin says: See my balls?