Early Clues to Negroponte's Muscle(W will see what Neg thinks appropriate)

[DeepModem Mom]

New York Times
Early Clues to a New Spy Chief's Muscle
By DOUGLAS JEHL

Published: February 20, 2005


WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 - From the start, virtually every decision that John D. Negroponte would make in defining his brand-new job could stir resentment among the 15 intelligence agencies he would oversee. It is the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency who stand to lose the most.

Already, Mr. Negroponte and the White House appear to have answered the critical question of who should write the intelligence briefing that President Bush reads each morning. No longer will that role be played by the Central Intelligence Agency, which has overseen the documents for every president since Harry S. Truman. The responsibility would be transferred to Mr. Negroponte, the nominee for the new job of director of national intelligence....

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For 58 years, the morning summaries, now known as the President's Daily Brief, have been written by the C.I.A., a role that has magnified the agency's power in shaping presidential agendas. But as part of the intelligence overhaul that established the new job, Mr. Bush has made clear that he expects Mr. Negroponte, and not Mr. Goss, to function as his principal intelligence adviser, and to be at his side six mornings a week during the Oval Office meetings at which the daily briefings are presented....

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Mr. Bush and his aides have signaled that they regard Mr. Negroponte and his staff as not just overseers but as the new leaders of the intelligence agencies, with the power to determine what reaches the president's desk. "Everybody will be given fair access, and everybody's ideas will be given a chance to make it to John's office," Mr. Bush said at the White House on Thursday. "And if he thinks it's appropriate I see it, I'll see it. And if he thinks it's a waste of my time, I won't see it."...


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20intel.htm

[Pachamama]

1. Wow! That's a lot of Power! Which in the hands of someone like Negroponte

makes me very nervous... :scared:

[central scrutinizer]

7. no shit

just ask the people of Honduras and Guatemala. But then I guess he is an expert on terrorism since he funded so many of them.

[54anickel]

2. Hmm, I didn't realize Negroponte had talent in illustrations. I'm sure

BeezleBush has demanded the 20 pages or so of the PDB be done in pictures.

Sheesh, these people really do scare the crap outta me!

[jmowreader]

8. You don't think Negroponte is really going to write this, do you?

No, Negroponte is currently at a kindergarten learning to make shadow-puppet bunnies and duckies with his hands. The PDB itself will be written by some GS-12 who's about nine echelons below Negroponte, just like it's always been done.

[teryang]

3. Goss is a sychophantic moron

He is incapable of advising anyone on intelligence matters let alone providing leadership. He is a hatchet man and a follower. His appointment was the first blow to the CIA, this is the knockout punch.

This is a consolidation of power in which the CIA is lost as a premier institution in the intelligence community. Chalk up another one up for the neocons and their corporatist supporters. They finished off Congress and now they've finished off any institutional resistance in the executive branch. First with "homeland security" reforms and now with the so called intelligence reform. This is the business of dictatorships, changing the institutional landscape of the executive branch until it is unrecognizable, rendering those employed within to the status of insecure yes men and lackeys.

[Gin]

5. I don't see Rumsfeld letting go of his budget funding.....I think

when he said he's ok with the choice that a deal was already worked out. Rumsfeld gets most of the money now and he won't give that up.

[teryang]

6. Right

This is why Hayden is there to keep things on the Rumsfeld track.

[dkofos]

11. We can only hope

that this turf war will be very bloody.
and rummy, goss & negroponte will shed the blood

[Dudley_DUright]

4. "...And if he thinks it's a waste of my time, I won't see it"

Willfully ignorant. :puke:

[psychopomp]

9. Plausable deniability n/t

[Rose Siding]

12. Built right in- that's exactly what comes to mind.

[Thor_MN]

10. Since * doesn't read, he has no independant sources of information

He only knows what he ahs been told - and has faith (way too much) in his advisors.... Sounds like a plan for more disaster.