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| Permalink View Article Stats US Intelligence Chief Negroponte Spends 3 Hrs Daily at Private Club W/ Expensive Security Detail in Tow Say Aides Quicklink submitted by Jon Korein (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| On many a workday lunchtime, the nominal boss of U.S. intelligence, John D. Negroponte, can be found at a private club in downtown Washington, getting a massage, taking a swim, and having lunch, followed by a good cigar and a perusal of the daily papers in the clubs library. He spends three hours there [every] Monday through Friday, gripes a senior counterterrorism official, noting that the former ambassador has a security detail sitting outside all that time in chase cars. Surely Negroponte needs a comfort zone, forced as he is to spends hours in the witness chair in front of congressional committees, fielding hot potatoes on subjects over which he has no control the NSAs warrantless surveillance, domestic spying by secret military intelligence units, paying newspapers in Iraq to run pro-U.S. stories. [Good work, if you can get it...] |
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