AP: Bush to Name Retired Admiral As Top Spy

Condi needs lots of help & NEGROPONTE is the one to give it to her? We're even worse off than we thought!!
Bush to Name Retired Admiral As New National
Intelligence Director, Replacing Negroponte

By KATHERINE SHRADER

WASHINGTON Jan 4, 2007 (AP)— Retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell, a veteran of more
than 25 years in the intelligence field, will be named by President Bush to succeed
John Negroponte as national intelligence director, a senior administration official
said Thursday.

Negroponte will move to the State Department to become the No. 2 to Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice.

The nominations of McConnell and Negroponte are expected to be announced by Bush
on Friday.

The administration sought to dispel any suggestion that Negroponte's shift was a
demotion. Bush personally reached out to Negroponte, an experienced diplomat, to take
over the long-vacant job as deputy secretary of state, the official said, speaking
on condition of anonymity because Bush has not announced the nomination.

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