Negroponte becomes Deputy Secretary of State, McConnell approved as Director of Nat. Intelligence

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With startlingly little press coverage...

Ex-Spy Chief Moves to State Department

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

14:57 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --


John Negroponte was a popular boss on his first day of work at the State Department on Tuesday. He told everybody to go take the afternoon off.


Negroponte, confirmed Monday night to be Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's deputy, addressed employees in the building lobby and announced what many already knew: The federal government was letting employees go home at 2 p.m. because of bad weather.


Negroponte left a higher-ranking job as director of national intelligence to take the No. 2 slot at State, where he will oversee policy on Iraq, China and Sudan and other portfolios. He was confirmed after Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., lifted a hold he had placed on Negroponte's nomination.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/13/national/w145717S47.DTL&type=politics

McConnell to become Director of National Intelligence

McConnell approved as spy chief
Reuters
Wednesday, February 7, 2007; 8:03 PM


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed retired Navy Adm. Mike McConnell as President George W. Bush's top intelligence adviser.

The nomination was approved without dissent, one day after the 15-member Senate Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously endorsed McConnell's candidacy to be the second U.S. director of national intelligence.

McConnell will succeed the departing John Negroponte whom Bush has nominated to serve as deputy secretary of state.

A post created by post-September 11 reforms, the intelligence chief runs the 16-agency U.S. espionage community.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020702038.html