Would you buy some strategic intelligence from this man?
That’s retired Vice Admiral Mike McConnell, the new nominee for the increasing backwater known as the Director of National Intelligence. John Negroponte, the first DNI, evidently couldn’t get out of the job fast enough, as he defected for the safer bureaucratic harbors of the State Department. Negroponte’s legacy at ODNI is still a bit murky, but during his tenure, he consolidated a fair amount of power within his office — sometimes at the expense of long-term strategic intelligence forecasting.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181583