Negroponte's General, Hayden, to head CIA after power struggle

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Officials: General to head CIA
Negroponte aide to replace Goss after apparent power struggle
Friday, May 5, 2006


Gen. Michael Hayden, right, is a deputy to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, left.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush has settled on Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden as his choice for CIA director, and an announcement is planned for Monday, senior administration officials told CNN late Friday.

Hayden, 61, is the principal deputy to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.

If confirmed by the Senate, Hayden would replace Porter Goss, who abruptly resigned the CIA post earlier Friday after losing what intelligence sources described as a power struggle with Negroponte.

Hayden was director of the National Security Agency in 2001 when Bush authorized a controversial program allowing the agency to monitor the communications of people inside the United States who were in contact with suspected terrorists overseas without first obtaining a warrant.

Critics charge the surveillance program is a violation of law and an assault on civil liberties. Hayden has defended the program, insisting that it is a necessary tool to thwart terrorists and that the process of obtaining warrants is too slow and cumbersome to deal with "a lethal enemy."...


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"There's been a steady encroachment on what we do," one intelligence official said, and Goss felt he needed to resign rather than accept it....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/05/goss.resignation/index.html

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Very interesting. Thank you

Related thread: Please click here.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Thanks, JR! nt

[Erika]

2. W's mouthpiece for his policies

Expect even more professionals to leave the CIA. W has every intention on turning the CIA into an arm for his right wing out-of-touch propoganda.

Surprise.Surprise.

[joemurphy]

3. Negroponte's turning the CIA over to his bald clone. Looks bad.

The same asshole that thinks warrantless domestic spying is just fine.

[Erika]

5. As I said in an earlier post, Negroponte was hated more than

Goss for his blinders-on allegiance to Bush. Expect a total exodus of non-politicals from the CIA.

The Democrats better stand up to this nomination.

[LaPera]

6. So death squad mentality rules...The only way to qualm an uprising.

But, that's always been CIA menality...Killing & destroying for American multi-nationals.

It's gotten out of hand so bring in the death squads, it worked in CA?

Were safer & and pay less for fruit & oil. Right?

(And we finance it).