Last Friday afternoon CIA director Porter Goss stepped down from his position—unexpectedly, at least to the media—and blogs on the let and less responsible mainstream media outlets were quick to surmise an embarrassing scandal must be the proximate c...

I don�t hear them complaining about appointing military officers to head the State Department. In fact, I think that the Congress critters would like a military man in that position. That is not an unprecedented move either, as there have been several members of the military that have Secretaries of State. The two most recent ones that come to mind are George C Marshall and Colin Powell

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President Bush nominated General Michael Hayden as CIA Director. WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Monday chose Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to lead the embattled Central Intelligence Agency, re-igniting a debate over the domestic surveillance program t...

As has been reported, there are some concerns about the likely nomination of General Michael Hayden to replace Porter Goss at the CIA.
For example, Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich) stated today (source: Key Republicans Wary on CIA Front-Runner on Fox News Su...

But if I'm not mistaken, both Raborn and Turner were already retired when they were selected for the job... the last active-duty officer to run the CIA was Smith, who left over 50 years ago. Since active duty officers were only directors for the first 7 years of an organization that's been around (in this incarnation, anyway) for over 60 years, I don't think there's much in the way of precedent for a uniform-wearing director today.

Also, as some have noted, there is the question of conflict-of-interest between the CIA, which is nominally independent, and the SecDef, who is nominally Hayden's boss so long as he's in uniform. It's not nearly so confusing now that the DIA no longer belongs to the director, but I'm sure it'll make it bloody difficult for Hayden to have an unbiased opinion in the ongoing turf wars about the proper ownership of military intel assets... but that's a debate for another thread.

Anywho:

James Bond was invented by Ian Flemming of the OSS. OO7 or Operations Officer 7 was what most wanted the work to be, glamorous. It was the exact opposite. So, it's 2 007 next year and I heard it'll be in the movie.

The problem todayis it is a union. Bye.

The AP picks up the story that some in Congress are worried about a military officer at the helm of the CIA. OTB gives some in Congress a bit of a history lesson here. Check it out. Seems the CIA...

So this begs the question to the nay-sayers: please point out the problems during, at least, Turner's tenure that were associated with his military background.

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A leading Republican came out against the front-runner for CIA director, Gen. Michael Hayden, saying...