Kill the Captain and We All Move Up?

Well, that may not be 100% accurate, but I like obscure Star Trek quotes.

Powerline and Captains Quarters cover well the ouster of Porter Goss, and the likely promotion for General Hayden of the NSA. Count me among those who feels that Goss' departure is a loss, because he had made a good start of bringing some order to the CIA, but clearly had not yet finished. That's not to say that Hayden and Negroponte won't do as well, or better.

As for the suggestion that the Hayden confirmation hearings would be a great chance to to show that the NSA's warrantless surveillance is both clearly legal and a good idea, I am not quite as sanguine. The MSM has been so thoroughly dishonest on this one, I am not sure the message will penetrate to the undecided middle - who are really the ones who need to hear it.

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