CNN: CIA insider offered spy agency's No. 2 post

[DeepModem Mom]

CIA insider offered spy agency's No. 2 post
Director nominee Hayden makes Capitol Hill courtesy calls
Tuesday, May 9, 2006

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Steve Kappes, a recently retired CIA insider, has been offered the No. 2 slot at the spy agency, sources told CNN, to reassure the CIA operations community about Gen. Michael Hayden's appointment as director as well as ease concerns about that nominee's military ties.

The decision to tap Kappes is also seen as a move aimed at members of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee who have raised doubts about Hayden.

Kappes was a civilian operations officer who reportedly was forced out of the CIA by Porter Goss' associates after Goss became director in 2004.

Intelligence analysts and former intelligence officials said that Kappes' selection is a repudiation of Goss, who abruptly announced his resignation Friday after reported disagreements with National Intelligence Director John Negroponte....

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Kappes -- who sources said has accepted the job offer -- is credited with pulling off the deal that persuaded Libya to give up its weapons programs....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/09/hayden/index.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Kappes will probably just be figurehead.

He will be totally ignored at best, or set upon and thrown out very soon, at worst.

He is just the carrot held in front of the "Donkey" Congress to get them to approve Hayden Once that is all in place, they will dump Kappes and put one of their own in his place.

[saigon68]

2. AH YES the DINO Donkey Congress

With Limpmann, MBNA Biden, and all the rest of the SHILLS