Reuters: Negroponte Taking Job "Too Vague" for "Qualified Candidates"

[Edgewater_Joe]

This is pretty cutting, especially for a wire report:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050217/us_nm/bush_intelligence_dc_10

Also check out Kevin Drum's WASHINGTON MONTHLY blog, which makes the same point and wonders why Mr. Death Squad is hightailing it out of Iraq after only a few months at the job (and whether that job will finally go to Wolfie in a fit of poetic justice).

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com

We can only hope these guys are right.

[paineinthearse]

1. FAUX coverage

Comments by their idiot political commentator:

1. Calling him the next "intelligence czar".
2. "He has a great diplomatic background, which will be necessary to bring 15 agencies together. The only problem I see in confirming him is his lack of intelligence experience."

duh

[charlie]

2. Oh yeah, sending Wolfie into the hellmouth would be fitting

He's already had a close encounter with a mortar shell. I think a couple of years pissing his pants every time he hears something louder than a popgun would do him good.