WP: CIA Director Picks a #3, Shifts Roles (intel role now Negroponte's)

[DeepModem Mom]

CIA Director Picks a No. 3 and Shifts Roles
Hayden Says the Change Will Let Him Focus on Agency's Mission
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 12, 2006; Page A06

CIA Director Gen. Michael V. Hayden announced yesterday that he has appointed to the No. 3 job at the agency Michael J. Morell, a longtime intelligence official and onetime executive assistant to former director George J. Tenet.

In naming Morell, Hayden also said he was changing the role for that position, a move that recognizes the CIA's loss of leadership of the entire intelligence community to Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte.

Under the old system, when the CIA director was also director of central intelligence, he and his top deputy spent much of their time working with the rest of the intelligence community, leaving the No. 3 person, called the executive director, to supervise most of the CIA's day-to-day operations. Previous "ExDirs," as they were called, often supervised major personnel issues including hiring, firing and promotions.

The change "makes obsolete the old division of labor," Hayden said in a statement. It allows for him and his new deputy, Stephen R. Kappes, "to focus exclusively on the mission of the agency," he said.

Morell, whose background is in the intelligence analysis side of the business, has also most recently been at the National Counterterrorism Center, where he was deputy director for intelligence. Before that, he was with the unit that produced the President's Daily Brief, the top-secret document done each day for the White House, and was a presidential briefer....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071101265.html

[Rex]

1. I guess Hayden's promotion is indication that they will get away with

illegal domestic spying. I never thought I would feel sorry for an organization like the CIA, but I do. NOW, ain't it ironic that instead of Kennedy, it was Bush jr that broke the CIA. Who would have guessed?

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Folks here said you could never take on the CIA and win.

I began to think fairly early on that the Bush/Cheney gang might do it.

[AndyTiedye]

3. It Also Allowed Them to Shut Down Fitzgerald's Investigation

The only reason they put Fitzgerald on the case is because the CIA
made them do it. As soon as Hayden was put in control of the CIA,
they were able to shut Fitzgerald down, and they did. The regime
has gotten away with the whole Plame affair, scott free.

Now that Rove is off the hook, he is also back in the saddle,
as we can see by the increasingly fawning coverage of all things
Republican as the election season warms up.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. I'm afraid you've got it. nt

[Vidar]

5. Make the oxymoron complete--Bush for Director of National Intelligence!