USA Today provides some background on DNI nominee, J. Michael McConnell, a retired Navy vice admiral and former head of the NSA. What's the significance of so many intel posts going to military and senior retired military officers? CIA (Hayden), DNI (McConnell), UndersecDef for Intel (Clapper). One thought -- military people tend to do what they're told.

Posted by Laura at January 5, 2007 12:22 PM