ABC Says It's Negroponte

ABC News is reporting that President Bush will name John Negroponte as National Intelligence Director at his 10:00 AM (ET) news conference.

Feb. 17, 2005 — President Bush plans to tap John Negroponte, the current U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as his nominee to become the nation's first national intelligence director, ABC News has learned

Negroponte faces a huge (and probably thankless) job in riding herd on the nation's intelligence bureaucracies.