Beginning of the End

ABC News: Bush to Tap Negroponte as Intel Director

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.

If confirmed by Congress, Negroponte, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, would be charged with coordinating the activities of all the United States' intelligence agencies.