The Eavesdropping General and the CIA
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The Eavesdropping General and the CIA
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
[Well, he is not YET the new CIA Chief, Rupert... we have a little thing
called "confirmation hearings" first. It's just remotely possible that
they won't be a rubber stamp, either. -NY Transfer]
The Independent - 09 May 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article362857.ece
General who eavesdropped on public is new CIA chief
By Rupert Cornwell
President Bush yesterday named Michael Hayden, a four-star air force
general, to be the new director of the CIA, with the task of rebuilding
the effectiveness and morale of the battered US spy agency.
General Hayden, a 30-year veteran of the intelligence world, is well
regarded by both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. However,
President Bush, who hit a new low of 31 per cent in a USA Today/Gallup
poll yesterday, faces stiff opposition to his selection in some
quarters.
General Hayden is expected to face tough questioning both for his
military background and his role superintending the warrantless domestic
eavesdropping programme by the ultra-secret National Security Agency,
which he led between 1999 and 2005. But his confirmation by the Senate
seemed in little doubt last night.
Since 2005 he has been deputy to John Negroponte, named last year as the
new US intelligence "tsar" to co-ordinate the work of the country's 15
separate intelligence agencies. General Hayden's immediate task will be
to reinvigorate the CIA, sapped by leak allegations and the loss of many
senior officials who were dismissed or forced out by the previous
director, Porter Goss. Mr Goss stepped down last week, under pressure
from Mr Negroponte and fierce criticism on Capitol Hill.
Mr Negroponte said Stephen Kappes, the popular CIA deputy director of
operations ousted in late 2004 by the incoming Goss team, would return
to his old job under General Hayden. The new chief, however, will face
familiar turf wars with Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon, which accounts for
the lion's share of the estimated $40bn (£22bn) US intelligence budget.
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