Thursday, April 20, 2006

In New Job, Spymaster Draws Bipartisan Criticism - New York Times

This was abouut as predictable as the sun rising in the east. I am, personally, flabbergasted that anyone thought this would work to anyone's benefit other than the Bushites, for whom the more confusion and chaos there is, the better.

In New Job, Spymaster Draws Bipartisan Criticism - New York Times:

"The fear expressed by the two lawmakers, Representatives Peter Hoekstra, Republican of Michigan, and Jane Harman, Democrat of California, is that Mr. Negroponte, the nation's overseer of spy agencies, is creating just another blanket of bureaucracy, muffling rather than clarifying the dangers lurking in the world.

In an April 6 report, the Intelligence Committee warned that Mr. Negroponte's office could end up not as a streamlined coordinator but as 'another layer of large, unintended and unnecessary bureaucracy.' The committee went so far as to withhold part of Mr. Negroponte's budget request until he convinced members he had a workable plan."

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