Quoted in the Washington Post, 22 May 2010

“After Blair, the question is asked:  ‘Is it the job?’” by Greg Miller and Walter Pincus, The Washington Post (5/22/2010)

“The DNI doesn’t have any authority to make things happen,” said Mark M. Lowenthal, a former senior CIA official and the chief executive of the Intelligence & Security Academy. “If you look at who we’ve had, we’ve been extremely lucky in the people who’ve accepted the job. Three of the brightest people I’ve ever met. But they can’t make the job work. At a certain point, you have to ask yourself: Is it the job?”