Michael Hayden, principal deputy director of national intelligence, calls "hot pursuit" of al Qaeda conversations.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Our right to security

This homogenized product of the various intelligence agencies performed under the supervision of the deputy director of national intelligence, Thomas Fingar, avers though that the Iranians may have abandoned this program.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where's our Churchill?

Fingar's Iran NIE was of a piece with the bit of political theater that got him appointed in the first place by then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte as not only the deputy for analysis but also as head of the National Intelligence Council.

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