[Paul Ross]

Perhaps he has done and we'll see something come out of it....yet. Humor me, I feel optimistic.

No, sorry I can't. And it isn't because I like being a kill-joy, its just time and again, we have allowed wishful thinking to cloud judgment, hoping this administration would be
(a) Conservative (when it clearly wasn't)or at least
(b)Adult, and unconcerned or unswayed by PC storms concocted by the RATs and Commies. Again, we have seen that this was not to be relied on either.

Bottom-line: there appears to have been a complete cave-in by the administration. The firing of Porter Goss who was doing a good job of cleaning house leaves of no other interpretation.

Kenneth Timmerman's Human Events piece points to Kappes as a central figure in rogue behavior:

Rep. Curt Weldon (R.-Pa.) believes Kappes was a disaster as head of the CIA's directorate of operations, and called him "the ringleader of an internal CIA rebellion" against Goss. "He was one of many in the CIA resistant to needed reforms." House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R.-Mich.) said Kappes was guilty of "gross insubordination" for his behavior at the agency under Goss and complained that the administration never consulted Congress before choosing him. "You would think that on the No. 2 person they might have just said, 'Hey, what do you think of this guy,' but they never did," he told the Washington Times.

I have real problems with Hayden. We saw this coming a mile off when Goss got fired. Hayden is a total neophyte, and all his "briefing skills" and "technical expertise" in NTM are totally irrelevant to human intelligence and he is out of his depth. Re-hiring Kappes, and simultaneously ignoring Congress are three strikes against him. These are litmus-test evidences of unreliability that can't be ignored.

[maica]

My first worry with Hayden was the ease with which he was accepted by Dem senators during the confirmation process. This caused me to wonder what do they know about this man that pleases them about having him replace Porter Goss.

I have since heard more background about him that is anxiety-provoking. Sad, it seems very likely that Bush had been given bad info on nominating Hayden.