Tuesday, July 20, 2004

The Dream Job Nobody Wants

So another of the “bipartisan" {snicker} 9/11 commission’s recommendations is the creation of a Cabinet-level “intelligence czar” who would be over CIA, NSA, DIA, and the rest of the vast, sprawling intelligence bureaucracy, eh?

Well, maybe that would help coordinate intelligence gathering and minimize inter-agency rivalries in the same way that the Joint Chiefs of Staff system coordinates the different branches of the military. My only question, though is this:

After the hind-sighted sniping and acrimonious Monday-morning quarterbacking of the past year – or, depending on your point of view, the past three years – who on Earth would actually be daft enough to take this job?