If I can say something that isn’t about Gaza for a minute, Jeff Stein at CQ has a great piece about how Barack Obama can’t find someone to become CIA director
“„“A lot of people don’t want the job,” said the source, because the CIA chief is no longer top dog in the fractious, 16-agency intelligence community, and no longer gives the President his daily briefing. The Obama team has gone down “some blind alleys” in finding the right person, the source said.
“„Whereas in pre-9/11 times the job might have been a springboard to bigger things, now “it’s a career ender” because it requires direct supervision of such contentious policies as renditions and interrogations.