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Article: Bush picks Iraq envoy to be new spy chiefNegroponte to head 15 U.S. intelligence agencies as overseer
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- International Herald Tribune
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- February 18, 2005
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Douglas Jehl and Elisabeth Bumiller
International Herald Tribune
02-18-2005
President George W. Bush on Thursday nominated John Negroponte as the first director of national intelligence, choosing a man whose decades of service as an ambassador and in Washington have left him intimately familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of American intelligence agencies. If confirmed by the Senate, Negroponte will leave his current post as the first post-invasion ambassador to Iraq to take up the new post, created by Congress last year to oversee all 15 intelligence agencies and a budget estimated at $40 billion As Negroponteas top deputy, Bush nominated Lieutenant General Michael Hayden of the Air ...
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