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CIA: What Would Hayden Do?

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Today's conventional wisdom is that Michael V. Hayden, deputy director of national intelligence, is President Bush's pick to replace Porter Goss as head of the CIA. For a look at what Hayden might do at the agency, see George Cahlink's Oct. 15, 2004 piece in Government Executive about Hayden's overhaul of the National Security Agency. Here's a preview: It involved "thinning out longtime employees to make way for new hires expert in different countries, outsourcing information technology, raising the notoriously secretive agency's profile, and consolidating management under a quasi-corporate structure."

Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.

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