CIA to Cede President's Brief to Negroponte

[Rose Siding]

The White House has decided that the new director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, will take over from CIA Director Porter J. Goss the responsibility for producing the intelligence material given to President Bush each morning, Bush Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said yesterday.

The President's Daily Brief (PDB), a roughly 20-page collection of 10 or more highly classified analytic articles or raw operational intelligence reports, provides the foundation for the 30-minute national security briefing that starts Bush's day.

Negroponte "will be in with the president virtually every day to help the president as he goes through his intelligence briefing," Card said yesterday on NBC's "Today" show. "He'll be responsible for producing the President's Daily Brief."

Card's comments reinforced with more detail Bush's statement Thursday in appointing Negroponte that he would be involved in the morning briefing as his new chief intelligence adviser. Negroponte will oversee the 15 agencies in the Defense Department and elsewhere that make up the U.S. intelligence community; his job was created by Congress in December as part of legislation meant to improve government-wide coordination and performance on intelligence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36532-2005Feb18.html

[punpirate]

1. Wonderful...

... CIA says no evidence, DoD says there is, which gets into the report?

The great mistake the 9/11 commission made in this (and a number of other suggestions) was in ignoring the potential for the position to be politicized, if only because the NDI was of cabinet-level rank.

By definition, nominating Negroponte was a highly political act, and in choosing him to make the briefing, the delivery of intelligence to the president is now highly political. Bush will be free of disagreeable news, and protected from injurious decisions about intelligence analysis.

Maybe that's what the commission intended....

[KittyWampus]

2. Oh God, It's Like Just When Things Can't Get Any Worse & They Do

[KingoftheJungle]

3. Looks like they want to set themselves up for even bigger scandals

That's all this is ever going to lead to. War, poverty, corporate crime, but scnadals nonetheless. The more they think they can get away with the more they set themselves up for their ultimate demise. Just dont let up on the fascist pigs and they'll squeal sooner or later.

[ljm2002]

6. Unfortunately, "their ultimate demise",

...while indeed inevitable, keeps receding into the future. I'm tempted to say, "We'll all be dead by then." ;-)

But I hope to be alive when it happens, I really do. I've lived through the whole transformation -- I mark the beginning at JFK's assassination -- and it's been rocky and mostly downhill since then. We're at the apex of the Dark Powers (and no, I am not kidding), the only question is how long will it last. So far their discipline and ability to stay on message has kept them from tumbling. But suppression reaps its own rewards, and the truth will out.

[Ouabache]

4. One more degree of separation from accountability for

der fuerher*. And who is going to come down on Death Squad John for a little faulty relay of intelligence?

[DeepModem Mom]

5. kick

[Tempest]

7. Does it really matter?

They're both sycophants and neither are capable of telling the truth.