Reply #200: I think he's semi-okay

[jmowreader]

You have heard of those men who started out in the mailroom and wound up as CEO? That's Robert Gates, except the mailroom he started out in was in the basement of CIA--he's the first and, so far, only person who ever started out in an entry-level CIA officership and retired from the Agency as Director of Central Intelligence. He's not a slug.

GEN Gordon Sullivan would be good. I've met him. He was Chief of Staff of the Army and did a good job at it. ADM William Studeman (who was Director of the National Security Agency) would be okay--he was one of the people they pulled in to review the intelligence post-Iraq Invasion. In reality, the list of people who can actually do that job is REAL fucking short and has a lot of guys who wore stars on their collars on it.