Mr. Clapper, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, spent 40 years in government service, much of it in intelligence positions, including his current post as under secretary of defense for intelligence.
Mashbir then held several posts in intelligence positions, taking credit for catching the first German spy in the United States, before departing for on a four-year assignment as a language officer to Japan in 1920.
Powell volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, serving in both combat and intelligence positions.
Anyone who does not understand the basic precepts of the religion professed by our enemies to be the basis of their cause cannot accurately understand their motivation, goals or operational paradigms, and therefore is incompetent to serve in any intelligence position.
When the last Americans evacuated Saigon in 1975, Mr. Hieu, who had since been promoted to colonel, was working in a sensitive intelligence position at the Presidential Palace.
Many officials say they expect Mr. Rumsfeld's special adviser on intelligence policy, Richard L. Haver, to be named to the post, which would be the highest-ranking intelligence position in the Pentagon, if Congress approves it.
With a broad consensus emerging in support of creating such an intelligence position, the White House is expected to continue to ask Congress to approve the post, the government officials said.
In retrospect, it seems incredible that the Brothers should ever have trusted Field Marshal Sisi, the known protege of General Tohamy, protector of the Mubarak-Tantawi networks of corruption, and strong advocate from his position in intelligence of a hardline policy against Islamists.
In the NRA, Kagame specialised in intelligence gathering, and he rose to a position close to Museveni.
The US intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.
Many top positions, however, are held by holdovers from the administration of Boris N. Yeltsin and officials with no background in intelligence.
