From the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea file...WASHINGTON — After a little more than a year in his newly created job, John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, has won an initial battle to establish authority over the vast U.S. intelligence community — Porter J. Goss, who resisted Negroponte's moves to limit the autonomy of the CIA, is gone.
But Negroponte faces a larger and much more difficult challenge: a struggle with Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's Department of Defense, which runs more than 80% of the nation's intelligence budget and is busy expanding its role even further.
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When Negroponte has sought to push through changes at the Defense Department, "they told him to take a flying leap," said one U.S. intelligence official who said he was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. "If you get the shove from DOD, where else can you go?"
The Pentagon has said it is cooperating with Negroponte. But even before the intelligence director's job was created, Rumsfeld made it clear that he thought its power should be limited, and he lobbied successfully in Congress to curtail much of Negroponte's clout over personnel and budgets.
Rumsfeld explained at the time that he did not want to weaken the Pentagon's ability to deliver tactical military intelligence to soldiers in the field by involving a new authority outside the military......But in recent months, the Pentagon has asserted its authority to expand its own intelligence operations far beyond tactical support for soldiers.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ciaassess6may06,0,1094951.story?coll=la-home-nationThe DoD intel office is run by Cambone and Boykin, so that should all work out in a heckuva way.
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