Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden

It looks like Hayden will be nominated to replace Goss. How anyone is going to get through the confirmation process is beyond me (when is the next recess window?)

As a reminder, here's Russ Tice on demnow:

RUSSELL TICE: More than likely this was very closely held at the upper echelons at N.S.A., and mainly because these people knew -- General Hayden, Bill Black, and probably the new one, Keith Alexander, they all knew this was illegal. So, you know, they kept it from the populace of N.S.A., because every N.S.A. officer certainly knows this is illegal.
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... because certainly General Alexander and General Hayden and Bill Black knew that this was illegal.

after tenet & goss, and with negroponte as DNI, it's difficult to imagine things being any worse - so i guess that's good news.