I just thought it was outrageous, and when I wrote the 3 E-mails to CNN, I ASKED the question of what exactly did they mean by thouse words on the bottom scroll. I don't expect to get an answer from them, but I do wish others might call or write them also and ask. And I repeat, it has nothing to do with the CIA and spooks.
No, and don't bother me about wasting my time composing an e-mail that I know will just get trashed once it reaches the CNN mailbox. If you want to waste your precious time over nothing, fine, knock yourself out.
Dr. Rice, as National Security Advisor, is a sort of in-house, mini-DCI to the President, so that she could conceivably be given that label as an intelligence officer, which she obviously is (as opposed to a line officer or executive, which she is only with her own staff). Colin Powell got the job at State precisely because he'd been National Security Advisor to President George H.W. Bush. Ergo it becomes salient to the story, that President George W. Bush has nominated two former National Security Advisors in succession to the post of Secretary of State. This tendency is remarkable and newsworthy, since the only other president I can recall to move a former national security advisor to State was Richard Nixon, and now President Bush has done it twice.
Moreover, the scroll could have referred to the CIA, where a body rain is in progress, and the head of the CIA task force on Osama Bin Laden recently resigned in protest of the changes being implemented by former Congressman and now DCI Porter Goss. There was a segment on this on PBS's The Newshour earlier this evening (Monday night, the 15th).
So there are a number of alternative explanations.