The mess at State
Human Events
by Robert Novak
01/12/07
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republicans and Democrats alike, were alarmed last week that John Negroponte was leaving as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) after less than two years to become deputy secretary of state. By way of explanation, he informed one Republican senator that he did not want to make the switch but that the White House prevailed on him. Just what career diplomat Negroponte was doing as the new intelligence czar in the first place is puzzling. But to pull him out just as his on-the-job training as DNI had been completed reflects a panicky desire to fill the deputy secretary's post that had been unfilled for an unprecedented six months. Five other key State Department positions are either vacant or soon to be vacant. Republicans in Congress, who do not want to be quoted, tell me the State Department under Secretary Condoleezza Rice is a mess...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18870
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Negroponte
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Novak
by Robert Novak
01/12/07
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republicans and Democrats alike, were alarmed last week that John Negroponte was leaving as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) after less than two years to become deputy secretary of state. By way of explanation, he informed one Republican senator that he did not want to make the switch but that the White House prevailed on him. Just what career diplomat Negroponte was doing as the new intelligence czar in the first place is puzzling. But to pull him out just as his on-the-job training as DNI had been completed reflects a panicky desire to fill the deputy secretary's post that had been unfilled for an unprecedented six months. Five other key State Department positions are either vacant or soon to be vacant. Republicans in Congress, who do not want to be quoted, tell me the State Department under Secretary Condoleezza Rice is a mess...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18870
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Negroponte
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Novak
rudkla - 12. Jan, 15:21
