BUSH TAPS MCCONNELL TO REPLACE NEGROPONTE AS INTEL CHIEF

Mike McConnell speaks after U.S. President George W. Bush named him to replace John Negroponte (LC) as director of national intelligence in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 5, 2007. Negroponte would become the Deputy Secretary of State under Condoleezza Rice (L). (UPI Photo/Jay L. Clendenin/POOL)