Thursday, November 6, 2008

Who Will Run CIA?

Jeff Stein in SpyTalk, here via W&P
"....For my two cents, it's as hard to imagine the president-elect keeping Mike Hayden at the CIA as it is picking Anthony Lake for the job, no matter how much we're hearing about Obama naming Republicans like Chuck Hagel and Richard Lugar to top national security posts.....Obama will want somebody he knows and trusts running herd on the agency's spies and analysts.....But it's also got to be somebody who knows his or her way around the spy shop, where, as former CIA Director Porter J. Goss discovered, the knives can come out fast for a captain who rocks the boat...... It's often said that Harman is difficultto work with, to put it kindly, but the CIA may need someone with as finely tuned a BS meter as Harman to fix its long ingrained problems..."

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