[Ben Hecks]

Military intelligence is important. So is a separate agency like the CIA.

I agree that it would not be a good idea to roll all of the CIA's missions into other organizations. The successes of the CIA and Spec Ops in Afghanistan lead me to think that they have some very capable operations personnel. I would hope that they are also improving their intelligence gathering ability. The upper layers of the organization that process and analyze intelligence is where I think most of the problems lie. Sometimes a reorganization is a good tool to week out under-performers and that may be where Hayden's experience could be particularly useful.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Sometimes a reorganization is a good tool to week out under-performers and that may be where Hayden's experience could be particularly useful."
Surely this is why the POTUS is adamant in putting a guy like Hayden in the Directorship. As for CIA field ops. They place their lives on the line. I don't think the plan is to neuter them, but to simply as you indicated improve their methods of analysis and internal operations AND adminstration. As one freeper mentioned, Woosey has been quoted as saying the CIA has been on autopilot for to long.
Time to get off autopilot. The CIA needs a capable pilot in the cockpit. One that does not think twice about pulling the frigen rivots out of the wings, and going into a split S on a moments notice, at low altitudes.
And Hayden just may be the pilot they need to keep them from crashing.

[strategofr]

"I agree that it would not be a good idea to roll all of the CIA's missions into other organizations."

Yes.

"The successes of the CIA and Spec Ops in Afghanistan lead me to think that they have some very capable operations personnel."

I also attach tremendous importance to the Afghanistan operation. though there have been so negative indicators about the CIA, this operation makes it clear that a number of good people have managed to survive inside the agency. In addition to good operations people, there must be good people on the intelligence side as well for something like that to work.

As to the rest of your comments: hopefully you are correct. Just at the moment, it seems far from certain that this guy will even become the new head of the CIA.