Posted on 02/20/2005 7:09:30 AM PST by Pendragon_6
President Bush (news - web sites) turned to a man who has accepted one difficult post after another to create a complex job refereeing among the CIA, FBI (news - web sites) and Pentagon.
John Negroponte, a veteran ambassador with scant experience gathering intelligence, was nominated by Bush on Thursday to be director of national intelligence. The job was proposed by the 9/11 Commission in July, reshaped by Bush in August and hotly debated before Congress approved it in December. (Related story: Negroponte picked for intel job)
The post is one of Bush's last second-term vacancies. Wednesday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, complained that it was too important to be delayed by White House "foot-dragging."
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