Can Hayden clear Senate? csmonitor.com: "Can Hayden clear Senate?
CIA nominee's career in the military and at NSA may be sticking points.
By Linda Feldmann Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON ? By the time President Bush nominated Gen. Michael Hayden Monday morning to be the next CIA director, the firestorm over the anticipated selection was already well under way.
Sunday talk shows and Monday headlines were dominated by the vocal concerns of a few congressional Republicans questioning the appropriateness, at this time in history, of putting a military man at the top of the nation's premier civilian intelligence agency. . Also at issue, particularly among Democrats, is General Hayden's role in running the president's controversial warrantless surveillance program when he headed the National Security Agency."

I don't get why the Bush administration insists on ramming their contraversial picks on everything. Goss, the predecesor, was also a controversial choice , as was the guy at the UN, etc, etc??

I am home today. Fighting a sinus thing that is really annoying me. Not sure what is going on in the world and TV programs really suck right now.