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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8948)	12/14/2000 8:57:27 PM
From: Northern Marlin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Here's a link to a recent Bill Gertz column on Bush's possible security picks: gertzfile.com Transition watch Sources close to the transition team of Texas Gov. George W. Bush say top officials are in a quandary over what to do with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet. Mr. Tenet, a former Democratic Senate staffer and White House aide in the first Clinton administration, is lobbying to stay on at CIA headquarters. Senior Bush aides picking personnel have a problem: There are not enough high-ranking administration positions for the small coterie of eight foreign and defense policy advisers known as the Vulcans. One of them, Paul Wolfowitz, is said to want the coveted job of defense secretary. That slot, we are told, is promised to someone else. Bush aides now are hoping to coax Mr. Wolfowitz into taking the CIA post. Some on the Bush team favor keeping Mr. Tenet at CIA, not so much to run the spy agency but for continuity in the ongoing Middle East peace talks. Mr. Tenet has played an intimate role. Other Bush officials argue it's time for Mr. Tenet to go and are critical of his intelligence policies. They view him as too partisan and want to replace him for failing to promote intelligence reports —unpopular with the Clinton White House — exposing high-level Russian government corruption. Mr. Tenet is also under fire from some in the Bush camp for defending the CIA's weak analysis of China. The CIA's China analysis shop has been criticized by Republicans in Congress for what they say is a pervasively benign view of the last nuclear-armed communist state. One solution: Put Mr. Wolfowitz at CIA and appoint Mr. Tenet as special adviser on the Middle East.