Tom Fingar, the council chairman, said it was an unusual assignment for agencies more accustomed to tracking the activities of other governments.

NPR: U.S. Report Links Climate Change to Security

Mr. TOM FINGAR (Director, National Intelligence Council): Climate change is an issue on which intelligence - covertly, clandestinely acquired information - is not very helpful.

NPR: U.S. Report Links Climate Change to Security

Tom Fingar's is not, of course, exactly a household name.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Intelligence mis-estimates

Some of those responsible for such behavior - like Armitage cronies Carl Ford and Tom Fingar - subsequently sought publicly to sabotage the Bolton nomination, engendering a Senate filibuster that was only ended when Mr. Bush gave his choice for the UN a recess appointment.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The disloyalists

These include: Ambassador John Negroponte , the Director of National Intelligence, Tom Fingar , his deputy for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and Ambassador Kenneth Brill , Director of the National Counter-Proliferation Center - a critically important job for which he seems particularly ill-suited by temperament and past track record of reflexive acquiescence to various instances of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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