[Chgogal]

And how does this pertain to Intelligence post 9/11? This is a political appointment period. We have a political hack doing a serious job post 9/11. This smacks of stupidity. We should have a hardcore CIA field operative with years of experience in charge, not the former President Clinton's former Chief of Staff. It was former President Clinton who for political reasons let bin Laden go. President Elect Obama is playing games with the Nation's security.

[ScottinVA]

0bama is simply paying political favors in exchange for national security.

[PurpleMan]

Neither are the careers of Tenet, Deutch, Woolsey, Turner, Schlesinger, Raborn, McCone & Hillenkoetter replete with intelligence experience either.

Maybe that’s why the CIA couldn’t see the wall coming down or 9/11, the failure of the Bay of Pigs, their incorrect estimates of Soviet strength, etc, etc, etc.