Saturday, June 05, 2004

Sphere: Related Content

Giuliani Replacing Tenet?

Michael Ledeen thinks Rudy would be a good fit:

We need a new director of central intelligence quite quickly, and the new director should come from outside the Beltway. The president should take this as a real opportunity to shake up intelligence, and that cannot be done by an insider.

Mayor Giuliani is exactly the right sort of person, as is Bobby Knight, the basketball coach at Texas Tech (only kidding, but he's got the perfect personality for it).

The president's advisers will undoubtedly tell him that he needs someone really knowledgeable in "spycraft," but I think that's entirely wrong.

The intelligence community has performed badly for years, indeed, for decades, and badly needs a great leader with the total trust of the president, an unbreakable will to win this war, and total intolerance for failure.

Faster, please.


I can't disagree, Rudy is smart and with the right supporting cast could make huge and meaningful changes.

No comments: