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Article: Man of the moment.(John Negroponte as director of national intelligence)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 28, 2005
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President Bush's decision to name veteran Ambassador John Negroponte as the country's first director of national intelligence finally ended the great guessing game about who would get (or agree to take) the job. The career diplomat, who served most recently as the American envoy to Baghdad--where he ran the State Department's largest diplomatic mission--is widely regarded as a savvy, no-nonsense bureaucrat with a stern commitment to getting things done. But even Negroponte's formidable skills are apt to be tested by the new job, in which he will have to get the nation's notoriously turf-conscious spy agencies to work together, share their secrets, and generally commit ...