{"id":5637,"date":"2010-05-21T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:28:55","slug":"director-of-national-intelligence-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/21\/director-of-national-intelligence-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of national intelligence quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5648\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Dennis-Blair-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dennis Blair\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/>Retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair <a title=\"resigned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/21\/us\/politics\/21intel.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">resigned <\/a>as national intelligence director\u00a0after only 16 months on the job &#8212; pushed out by President Obama who will name a successor.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/\">Political science<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Joseph Wippl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/wippl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Wippl<\/a>, director of the BU Center for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/about\/center\/\">International Relations<\/a> and a 30-year CIA operations officer, said it&#8217;s an impossible job because it doesn&#8217;t have budgetary or personnel authority over all 16 intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Expect another U.S. military man to become DNI.\u00a0 The military is always good for hopeless causes in civilian leadership.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Joseph Wippl, 617-353-8992, <a href=\"mailto:jwippl@bu.edu\">jwippl@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair resigned as national intelligence director\u00a0after only 16 months on the job &#8212; pushed out by President Obama who will name a successor.\u00a0 Political science Professor Joseph Wippl, director of the BU Center for International Relations and a 30-year CIA operations officer, said it&#8217;s an impossible job because it doesn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2894,2885,202,2891,75,2892,2893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}