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Obama's intelligence nominee says he won't be a 'hood ornament'

The Washington Post: President Obama's nominee to lead the nation's intelligence community vowed Tuesday to "push the envelope" in asserting his authority and pledged that he would not be a "hood ornament" for a system marked by the recent massive expansion of top-secret agencies and contracts.

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr., who seeks to become the next director of national intelligence, testified for three hours before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He explained his plans for handling a system that, according to a Washington Post series, has burgeoned since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks into a secretive, unwieldy colossus that defies effective oversight.

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Tags: Democratic Party, United States Senate, California, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Secrecy, Dianne Feinstein, Jay Rockefeller, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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