Posted on 01/02/2005 9:47:19 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
President Bush is expected to name the first director of U.S. intelligence as early as this week part of the changes resulting from the Sept. 11 commission.
The White House has been silent on the appointment, but some administration and intelligence officials said a leading candidate is John Lehman, a Republican member of the Sept. 11 commission and former Navy secretary.
However, more than a dozen intelligence professionals interviewed by the Boston Globe said the commission recommended changes do not address the system's biggest problems: a lack of accurate intelligence coming in from the field and a shortage of skilled analysts.
"It does little to address analytic and collection capabilities," Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counterterrorism center, told the Globe. "I am not optimistic the so-called reforms are going to lead to quality intelligence. It does nothing to remedy the poor source information we have had."
The new national intelligence director will eclipse the head of the CIA as the president's primary intelligence adviser and control the budgets of the nation's 15 spy agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Oh, no, no, no not John Lehman---he may be a Repbulican but I didn't get the impression that ANY of the members of the commission were all that competent and impartial.
Wasn't he Sec. of Navy or something? Maybe someone else knows more about him other than 9/11 commission, but based on his "performance" on commission, not impressed.
ditto
John F. Lehman was elected to the Ball Corporation board of directors in November 1987 and serves on the finance, human resources and nominating committees. He is currently chairman of J.F. Lehman & Company, and chairman of the board of OAO Technology Solutions, Inc.
Dr. Lehman was formerly chairman of Sperry Marine, Inc. from 1993 to 1996, and prior to that, he was an investment banker with PaineWebber Inc. He served as Secretary of the Navy from 1981 to 1987. Prior to this appointment, he was president of Abington Corporation from 1977 to 1981.
Dr. Lehman began his career in defense and foreign affairs as a staff member of the Foreign Policy Research Institute from 1967 to 1969 at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. From 1969 to 1974 he served as special counsel and senior staff member to Dr. Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council, and from 1974 to 1975 he was a delegate to the Mutual Balanced Force Reduction Negotiations in Vienna. He became deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1975, and was chief operating officer there upon leaving in 1977. He served 25 years as a naval aviator in the selected reserves.
In addition to his directorships at Ball Corporation, J.F. Lehman & Company and OAO Technology Solutions, Inc., Dr. Lehman serves as chairman of the Princess Grace Foundation, as a director of the OpSail Foundation and as a trustee of the LaSalle College High School.
Dr. Lehman holds a bachelor of science degree from St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, a bachelor of arts and a master of arts degree from Cambridge University, United Kingdom, and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.
No way... this just asfter Richard Fischer, D, gets appointed to the Federal Reserve...
sheesh
Didn't manage the 911 group very well.
I am confused --- he was the Secretary of Navy, but was never in the navy? or any other branch of military?
I didn't realize they appointed civilians like that---hm
still not impressed yet---we'll see, but I just haven't liked the attitude of any of the committee members. They have all come out like they know-it-all and everyone from the President to the Senate, the House and on down better listen to them if they know whats good for them.
Actually, I think I would be a very good candidate for that job!
You just might be the right person, although I believe there might some fireworks between you and the Commander in Chief over a few differences ya'll have over say, immigration?
First is his confirmability. The other commission members could not bad-mouth him. His Senate colleagues would have to confirm him in a walk.
Second is his resume as you ably summarize it. There are a couple things he did as SecNav that much impress me. He got the great Adm Hyman Rickover to retire. Rickover had done so very much to develop the nuclear Navy, but his time was past and others would not touch him. A second achievement was to eliminate the Naval Material Command, a layer of bureaucracy previously above the Naval Sea Systems Command, Air Systems Command and a couple other "systems" commands. NavMat had day also, but that was long past. It was an impediment to progress that added no value. Taking on such problems as Rickover and NavMat is more than most sub-cabinet officials or even cabinet secretaries can ever expect to accomplish during a normal tenure. I look forward, if he is installed to the new post, to similar repairs to the intelligence system.
I'd be pouring Concrete my first day!!! and chasing Illegals Before he woke up!!! No doubt he would be lookin to replace me!!
That's quite a resume, but it looks like the guy has been unable to hold a job for any length of time.
Don't do all that work yourself, hire yourself some illegals, they do the jobs most Americans won't do.
If so, the hearings should focus on who really processed Kerry's honorable discharge, which bears Lehman's signature years after the Kerry left the Navy. Lehman said he NEVER signed it, and that it was AUTOPEN.
That'd be a hoot. Kerry sits on that committee.
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