Agency head to leave after reported Rumsfeld clash Fri Jan 6, 4:22 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. intelligence agency that analyzes data from military spy satellites and U2 aircraft will leave his post in June, officials said on Friday.
James Clapper, a retired Air Force general, will step down as director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on June 13, three months short of his fifth anniversary as head of the defense department operation, officials said.
The Baltimore Sun, which first reported Clapper's departure, said the NGA director was being forced out after angering Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on an issue involving intelligence reform.
The Sun quoted an unnamed former official as saying that Clapper earned Rumsfeld's ire in 2004 by telling Congress his agency would not be ill-served by the creation of a director of national intelligence, or DNI, a post created by post-September 11 reforms that was initially opposed by Pentagon officials.
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