The Next Head of the CIA? (Hayden likely Goss successor)

[Olney Blue]

TIME EXCLUSIVE: Air Force General Michael Hayden is likely to be named Porter Goss's successor. Then the partisan fireworks will really begin


President George W. Bush stunned Washington on Friday by accepting the resignation of CIA Director Porter J. Goss, and Republican sources told TIME that the White House plans to name his replacement on Monday: Air Force General Michael V. Hayden, who as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence has been a visible and aggressive defender of the administration's controversial eavesdropping program. His nomination is sure to reignite the battle over the program on Capitol Hill, where one House Democrat promises "a partisan food fight" during the confirmation process.

Though Hayden, who has a close rapport with Vice President Cheney, has not been formally offered the job, he is the leading candidate and the announcement is planned for Monday at the White House, the sources said. The President frequently extends a formal offer immediately before an announcement, to cut down on leaks and allow for last-minute developments.

White House officials had hoped to announce Goss's departure and Hayden's nomination at the same time but Goss, who resigned under pressure, balked at that kind of choreography. "He said, 'If we're going to do this, let's go ahead and do it,'' a senior administration official said.

Bush and Goss appeared together along with Negroponte in the Oval Office after lunch Friday in a terse, three-minute ceremony announced with just 50 minutes' notice. A senior administration official said Negroponte, with the blessing of the White House, began talking with Goss about leaving a couple of weeks ago. "The creation of the DNI has been a transformational and very tumultuous time for the intelligence community and particularly the CIA," the senior administration official said. "When you ask somebody to do so much transformational change, often it makes sense to let somebody then take the agency forward from there."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1191777,00.html

[Allenberg]

1. Such a shame.

General Hayden seemed to be such a nice guy when I got to chat him up in 2000 while I was stationed at Ft. Meade. Such a shame to see him turn into such a tool for the administration. All for the 4th star.


Sigh.

[onehandle]

2. What does he like from his Hookers? nt

[jeff30997]

5. A good spanking?

:spank:

[rzemanfl]

3. Bullshit! All of it. n/t

[bleever]

4. Hayden was the guy who, when questioned, denied that the

Fourth Amendment requires probably cause.

He was wrong.

Bzzzzzzzt!

[buff2]

6. It's set in stone

I was flipping through the channels and caught it straight from the horse's mouth,Faux Snooze. The moron idiot will announce it Monday. :puke:

[grasswire]

7. well, well

"Though Hayden, who has a close rapport with Vice President Cheney, has not been formally offered the job"

There ya go. He's Cheney's stooge.

[madame defarge]

8. Let's put in TOM Hayden...not this idiot Gen. Hayden...n/t

[NYC]

9. Hayden of the N.S.A., James Bamford's Body of Secrets.

Air Force Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden, Crypto City's mayor.

See page 494 of Body of Secrets.

Also, his relationship to Barbara Fast:

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
by James Bamford, 2001,2002.

Page 498:

Also nearby is Barbara G. Fast, an Army brigadier general, who is deputy chief of the little-known Central Security Service (CSS). In addition to being the director of NSA, Hayden also commands the CSS, NSA's own army, navy, and air force. In that second universe, he is responsible for operational control of all signals intelligence collection, "in consonance" with the commanders of the individual security services -- Naval Security Group Command, Army Intelligence and Security Command, and Air Force Intelligence Agency. As deputy chief of CSS, Fast helps manage NSA's vast network of worldwide listening posts.

More about Barbara Fast:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/08/Worldandnation/Report_steers_clear_o.shtml

Report steers clear of interrogators' boss
By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN, Times Senior Correspondent
Published May 8, 2004

A scathing report on prisoner abuse in Iraq found that U.S. military intelligence interrogators set "physical and mental conditions" for questioning inmates that contributed to the shocking acts of abuse.

But except for one brief mention, the 55-page report contains nothing about the role of the top military intelligence officer in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast. As head of intelligence for the U.S. command in Baghdad, Fast was in charge of interrogators at Abu Ghraib, where prisoners were beaten, sodomized and photographed in sexually degrading positions...

...{Barbara} Fast "routinely" denied recommendations to release inmates who were no longer deemed a threat and clearly met the requirements for release...

... Last month, the Pentagon announced Fast will return to Fort Huachuca - to head the Army Intelligence Center...

Go read the rest of the article. Although it's from May 8, 2004, the article is still up.