[Overpaid Slacker]

Supe -- what was the conviction for, in what jurisdiction, and who overturned it? What were these "deeds"?

Negroponte is a force, and that's why Libs fear him. For the last 6 mo he has been Ambassador to Iraq -- and turned the "green zone" into a very professionally run US Embassy. He's been Ambassador to the United Nations and before that, to Honduras.

Note, before the REAL pants-wetting begins that the bill creating the NID contains a provision that the NID will not "abrogate the statutory responsibilities" of any existing agency handling intelligence matters. This doesn't mean that he's a figurehead, but it does mean that the NID can't strong-arm the DoD, whose statutory responsibilities include DIA, NRO, NGIA and NSA -- and therefore about 80% of the US Intelligence budget.

JP