BUSH TAPS MCCONNELL TO REPLACE NEGROPONTE AS INTEL CHIEF

U.S. President George W. Bush announces Mike McConnell (R) 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)