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D.C. Notes: Military's role at intelligence agencies questioned Sunday, January 07, 2007 By Lisa Hoffman, Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON -- The naming of retired Navy Adm. John McConnell to the nation's top spy post is not sitting well with those who already see too many uniforms at the helms of U.S. intelligence agencies. President Bush picked Adm. McConnell on Friday to be the next director of national intelligence, a relatively new position that rides herd on the 16 large and small intelligence agencies in official American spookdom. He would succeed John Negroponte. Adm. McConnell would join Gen. Michael Hayden, who took over the CIA last spring, and retired Vice Adm. John Redd, who heads the National Counterterrorism Center. The National Security Agency is led by Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, while the Defense Intelligence Agency is run by Lt. Gen. Michael Maples. Critics -- including Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., former chairman of the House intelligence committee -- say the military men might tilt too much toward the operational bent of intelligence gathering, focusing more on information geared at military missions as opposed to the more general and global perspective a civilian director might favor. Look for this issue to be raised at Adm. McConnell's upcoming Senate confirmation hearing. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
