John Negroponte's selection as the new National Director of Intelligence will result in a blogosphere full of opinions. My own guess is that he will 1) try to enforce coordination among the 15 intelligence agencies; 2) be forced to allow small exceptions (aka loopholes) to any rules that he imposes; and 3) the intelligence agencies will drive 18 wheelers through the loopholes.
Ralph Peters thinks that Negroponte will be tough enough and lists the challenges ahead:
"The new NID also has to be tough-minded enough to get a stranglehold on the technocrats and hucksters who've sold us hyper-expensive collection systems of marginal value when we need more flesh and blood.
Technology can be a marvelous aid in intel work, but data isn't the same thing as intelligence — no matter the volume delivered. One good analyst can be worth a sky full of satellites."
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