Bush to Name Retired Admiral As Top Spy

Retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell, a veteran of more than 25 years in the intelligence field, will be named by President Bush to succeed John Negroponte as national intelligence director, a senior administration official said Thursday.

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McConnell Named to Succeed Negroponte

A senior administration official says retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell will be named to succeed John Negroponte as national intelligence director. Negroponte, who has been closely involved with U.S. policy on Iraq, will trade in his job as top spy to become No. 2 to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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A senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that relations with China would strengthen further, as the countries played a game of table tennis to commemorate 30 years of ties warmed by "pingpong diplomacy."

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Tossing aside its iconic green-and-white laptop with its distinctive antennas, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is pursuing a smaller 2.0 version, scheduled for release in 2010, in which dual touch screens will replace the keypad.

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Alphonse Karr, the 19th-century French novelist and pamphleteer, is principally remembered for the epigram, "The more it changes, the more it is the same thing." That could be the thought that comes to mind at first glance of speech made by US Deputy Secretary of State John Negro …

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — If it was not yet clear to Washington that a new political order prevailed here, the three-day visit this week by America's chief diplomat dealing with Pakistan should put any doubt to rest.

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Early Tuesday morning, after 14 hours of discussion, the thirty-four member countries of the Organization of American States smacked Colombia down hard, rejecting its invasion of Ecuador as a "clear violation" of the OAS charter.

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Q: When we as a nation are still debating the morality and efficacy of "harsh" interrogation techniques that much of the world consider torture, and indefinite detainment that lies outside the rule of international law, can the United States really win the "war of ideas" that Pre …

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Five countries — Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria and Thailand — have made tentative commitments to put the computers into the hands of millions of students, with production in Taiwan expected to begin by mid-2007.

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BOSTON - The founder of the One Laptop Per Child project claimed Friday that Intel Corp. undermined his group's effort to sell $188 computers for schoolchildren in the developing world even after the chip company got a seat on the nonprofit's board.

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How to make olpc work

Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child idea is not new but he has made possible a great marketing and philanthropy approach to selling. Yes, it is about market share which equals sales and translates to movable parts for a lot of cash.

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OLPC Laptops 'on their way,' according to new email

For those of us early adopters who shelled out $400 earlier this month for the highly anticipated XO laptop, there's good news: the laptops are en route to "Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda" and our laptops should arrive in the next 3-4 weeks, according to an emai …

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In order to jump start sales of the OLPC laptop, XO has decided to offer the computer to the public for $400. That price get the purchaser one computer and donates one to a child.

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One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world's children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile.

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The AP reports that a four-page memo sent by then-National Intelligence Director John Negroponte in May 2006 confirms that a March 2004 White House intelligence briefing for top congressional leaders was on "the Terrorist Surveillance Program."

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A tectonic shift has occurred in the intel community toward wide-scale outsourcing to industrial firms, vs. the long established practice of outsourcing certain jobs to subject matter experts who were independently contracted directly to the government.

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It's obvious the Pentagon is most qualified to handle national intelligence. Chavez wouldn't be a problem today if, instead of trying some sneaky spy-novel coup, we'd just sent the Air Force and Navy to bomb the @!$%# out of Caracas.

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This was the subject of heated debate in at least one thread recently, so I thought I would post this column from the Washington Post by Robert Novak.

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The nomination of retired Vice Admiral John Michael "Mike" McConnell to be Director of National Intelligence is part of an effort by the Vice President to tighten the Administration's grip on domestic intelligence and grease the wheels for a more aggressive stance towards Iran, …

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Negroponte: Mission Impossible

With Negroponte's resignation after less than a year on the job, yet another highly-touted, post-9/11 Bush initiative goes down in flames.

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Cuban President Fidel Castro is very ill and close to death, Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte said yesterday.

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Professor Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop Per Child project, responsible for the $100 laptop, has revealed the OLPC is in discussions with a number of wealthy countries about orders for the low-cost devices--although they will be buying them for poorer economies, not  …

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John Negroponte announced today that the 16 agencies making up the American Intelligence Community have a collaborative wiki called Intellipedia, a top secret information-sharing system used on the government's restricted Intelink Web system.

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U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte said the United States can combat a new generation of jihadist leaders by continuing the war in Iraq.

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Last week the One Laptop Per Child project produced its first working prototype and for the first time showed it off publicly at the Red Hat Summit.

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From the article:To many lawmakers and civil liberties advocates, the revelation seemed to fly in the face of months of public statements and assurances from President Bush and his aides, who repeatedly sought to characterize the NSA's effort as a narrowly tailored "terrorist sur

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It's shrunk so much that it's disappeared...

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