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When John Negroponte was nominated to the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) almost two years ago, the smooth-talking career diplomat described his new post as "vital to the protection of our country" and one that "will no doubt be the most challenging assignment I have undertaken in more than 40 years of government service...
...denied by senior Bush officials, has caught Washington off guard. It is widely believed to stem from Negroponte's dissatisfaction with the top intelligence job, to which he was nominated in February 2005, and a desire to return to his roots as a diplomat. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was a post created to provide streamlined control to 16 U.S. intelligence agencies after the failures that led to 9/11 and the mistaken assessments of Saddam Hussein's weaponry. Negroponte, 67, was the America's first DNI and his departure after little more than 20 months...
...most accounts, Negroponte did a creditable job as DNI, rapidly building the organization's staff to more than 1,000 as he helped to push out former CIA boss Porter Goss, replacing him with Negroponte's own deputy, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden. But Negroponte was long rumored to be impatient with the intelligence job, and eager to return to his career as a diplomat. A likely replacement for Negroponte is retired Adm. Mike McConnell, who served as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992 to 1996 and is currently a senior vice president at the consulting firm...
...Iraq and the extent of Vice President Cheney's influence over national security policy to Goss's view on the effectiveness of John Negroponte as the nation's first director of national intelligence. Goss was supplanted as the last DCI when Negroponte took over the newly created position of DNI in April 2005. About a year later, Negroponte ousted Goss, with Bush's approval, amid tensions that grew in part out of disagreements over some of the new DNI's plans for stripping some anti-terrorism and other functions from...
...first document, a memo really, defends the legality and propriety of the detention and interrogation program, giving a peek at how it has operated and why it has been invaluable. The second document (both can be found on the DNI's website is a compilation of the bios of the 14 CIA captives being sent to the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay detention facility to await trial by military tribunal - and a possible execution if convicted. Though much biographical information about the terrorists in question has been previously disclosed, today's document musters it all in one place...