Quoted on National Public Radio, 21 May 2010

“Blair’s Exit Raises Questions About Intelligence Job,” by Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio (5/21/2010)

“The job is not built for success,” said Mark Lowenthal, who was staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

“You’ve had three high-powered, highly intelligent individuals in that job, and you’ve had three of them in five years, and now we’re about to have a fourth one? That strongly suggests there’s something wrong with that job,” said Lowenthal, who also served as an assistant director of central intelligence and vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council. “The DNI is given a great deal of responsibility and very little authority to make it happen.”