Spy Czar, Rumsfeld in a Turf War - Los Angeles Times

Maybe Porter should have checked with Powell before be bicked Rummy and Cheney.

No one gets around those two, or any of the other insiders.

Spy Czar, Rumsfeld in a Turf War - Los Angeles Times:

"WASHINGTON: After a little more than a year in his newly created job, John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, has won an initial battle to establish authority over the vast U.S. intelligence community, Porter J. Goss, who resisted Negroponte's moves to limit the autonomy of the CIA, is gone.

But Negroponte faces a larger and much more difficult challenge: a struggle with Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's Department of Defense, which runs more than 80% of the nation's intelligence budget and is busy expanding its role even further."