He has also replaced the intelligence minister before, but this time Ayatollah Khamenei intervened to protect what he called the "maslahat," or public interest.
Parliament might press for a free-standing select committee of the House of Commons to replace the existing Intelligence and Security Committee of MPs and peers.
But for finding out the tricks of the trade, the way business runs in bad times and good, the latest developments in business and the economy, nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
Automated tracking cannot replace the intuition and intelligence of a human observer needed to establish a new behavior paradigm.
President Uhuru Kenyatta recently tapped two generals from the military to replace the heads of the intelligence agency and the immigration department.
President Bush has said he supports the Sept. 11 panel's recommendation for a national intelligence director, who would replace the director of central intelligence as the nation's chief spymaster, but the White House proposal would not provide the post with the broad authority that the bipartisan commission wants.
Would you replace the current heads of the intelligence agencies?
Worst of all, there is no sign that either the AU or the UN has much hope, in the short run, of making things safer.The African leaders meeting in the Gambia had hoped that Sudan's government would agree, after adjusting the Nigerian peace accord, to let 15,000 peacekeepers under the UN's aegis, backed by NATO's air support and intelligence, replace the AU's 7,000 now in Darfur.
The national intelligence director, who would be the president's principal intelligence adviser, would replace the existing post of director of central intelligence, a job that has always been held simultaneously by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
As with the latest advancements in electronic measurement tools for baseball, current computer-aided imaging advances are not developed enough to replace the judgment, creativity, intuition and intelligence of a reading radiologist.
