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Of course, he spoke with a "top WH official" .. inferring the negative climate at the agency, lack of morale, and they need someone the inmates can kumbiya with .. (in so many words).

I don't see Goss leaving just due to lack of face time on the daily brief to POTUS, and being #2 to Negroponte, but I could be wrong. I'm thinking it's gotta be something much more substantial which will enfold for it to happen this strange ly.

Tony Snow better be getting his rest and taking his vitamins this weekend .. Monday's gaggle is gonna be a riotous mob.

Shep: staff shakeup -- Brett Baier on now

Here's something I find interesting, from the link I posted above. General Hayden speaks in bureaucratese but I think he's been doing a lot of important things. Near the end of this briefing he asserts that, in the spirit of Goldwater-Nichols (legislation in the 80s that established the joint military commands), it is also important in the newly unified intel community that people see that major promotions occur from within the group of analysts and officers devoted to joint 'commands' (such as under the DNI in this example). Otherwise, all the separate tubs will continue to be separate and there will be reluctance of the best people to serve on the joint staffs outside of legacy agencies.

This is Hayden speaking, of course, not Negroponte. But what better way for Pres. Bush and DNI Negroponte to show all of the intel agencies that the DNI's office is the happening place than for someone like Hayden to go on to be Director of CIA???? Just speculation, of course, but it's making sense to me......
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http://www.dni.gov/speeches/20050629_speech.htm

"General Hayden: Culture, okay so what is it? You move impediments to collaboration. The whole goal is collaboration, that's one. Number two, you incentivize collaboration. There's a wonderful sentence in Goldwater/Nichols, don't take this to the bank, we're a different kind of community, but a wonderful sentence in Goldwater/Nichols. I think it's the most powerful sentence in the entire law. "Promotion rates of officers on the Joint Staff shall be equal to or greater than the promotion rates of officers on the military headquarters staffs." Turn the word over. What like sentence or sentences are there to our community that incentivize this more communal experience?"