The mysterious Mr. Negroponte

Alternet.org
January 04, 2007

If you wanted to sum up the brief and obscure tenure of John Dimitri Negroponte as the United States Director of National Intelligence - an office he's now preparing to vacate - you could do worse than to quote the shadowy apparatchik himself:

Intelligence is not a panacea -- far from it.
If your response to that is anything other than a baffled shrug, perhaps you're in a position to explain why Negroponte has stepped down to what certainly looks like a lower-rung job as deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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