Veteran diplomat John Negroponte's shift from spy czar to State Department number two sent a new jolt of uncertainty through the battle-scarred US intelligence community.
I have no particular expertise in intelligence matters so I can't really speculate.
I guess I kind of assumed he was given the post of DNI in order to retrieve special equipment to prevent leaks by disgruntled State Department employees to the New York Times.
I hope it works better now than when it was first developed in the mid-1960s.
