5.07.2006

More Opposition to Michael Hayden with the CIA

This piece in Forbes bears out what I said earlier about Rumsfeld's lying about his defense department and intelligence, but it also ties into Hayden as CIA chief replacement for Porter Goss:

If Hayden were to get the nomination, military officers would run the major spy agencies in the United States, from the ultra-secret National Security Agency to the Defense Intelligence Agency.

The Pentagon already controls more than 80 percent of the intelligence budget.

"You can't have the military control most of the major aspects of intelligence," said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who is on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA "is a civilian agency and is meant to be a civilian agency," she said on ABC's "This Week."