Hugh is a shill. After his pathetic and ongoing bout of Romneymania, I trust him not one iota on anything.
With Leon Panetta in charge of CIA, I'm fairly certain that institution will become more politicized. And that is a very, very bad thing indeed.
But with Blair as DNI, maybe, just maybe the subtle yet obvious message is being sent to make no doubt about it (is that subtle?) that DNI is the top dog and everyone else (NSA, NRO, NGO, DIA, INR, FBI, Cia, DHS, DoD, etc) is.. well ... not.