Bush nominates John Negroponte to be the new national intelligence director, and NSA director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden as deputy. Judd Legum has more. Update from the Green Zone: Spencer Ackerman of Iraq'd hears that current US ambassador to Kuwait Richard Jones is going to be asked to take Negroponte's job in Baghdad. But Kevin Drum is voting for Paul Wolfowitz to get the Baghdad job.

Posted by Laura at February 17, 2005 09:45 AM