NYT: Senate Intelligence Committee Backs Negroponte for Intel Post

[DeepModem Mom]

Senate Panel Backs Negroponte for Intel Post
By DAVID STOUT

Published: April 14, 2005


WASHINGTON, April 14 - John D. Negroponte was endorsed by the Senate Intelligence Committee today, sending his nomination to the full Senate for what is expected to be easy confirmation as the nation's first national intelligence director.

The committee, composed of eight Republicans and seven Democrats, backed Mr. Negroponte this afternoon. "He's approved," Senator Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio, told Reuters.

The breakdown of the vote was not immediately known, although the nominee appeared to have wide support from Democrats as well as Republicans when he testified before the panel on Tuesday.

Mr. Negroponte, 65, a career diplomat who served as ambassador to the new Iraq and to the United Nations, will soon have the task of imposing order and cooperation among the 15 agencies that make up America's intelligence bureaucracy. As national intelligence director, he will outrank the head of the Central Intelligence Agency and will have broad hiring-and-firing powers....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/politics/14cnd-intel.html?hp&ex=1113537600&en=0ddc9c8843dd5897&ei=5094&partner=homepage


ON EDIT: All articles I've found so far indicate a "closed-door" vote. If anyone finds a source with the votes listed, please post.

[GreenArrow]

1. of course it does.

Birds of a feather...

[rodeodance]

2. shows that the "Senate Intelligence Committee' in NOT intelligent!

[lala_rawraw]

3. WHAT??? Well, now tell me about the rule of law... n/t

[Roland99]

4. No mention of Central American death squads?

Damn liberal rag.

[AlCzervik]

5. whores. eom

[kaitykaity]

6. Hear that?

That was Mike Malloy's head exploding.

Tonight's show should be a doozy.

[teryang]

7. senate stooges approve "Murder, Inc."

Inspiratioal, death's head with a genteel facade.