BUSH TAPS MCCONNELL TO REPLACE NEGROPONTE AS INTEL CHIEF

John Negroponte, the current director of national intelligence, will become the Deputy Secretary of State under Condoleezza Rice (L) as part of a shift in administration that U.S. President George W. Bush announced in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 5, 2007. Bush announced Mike McConnell as his nominee to replace Negroponte as the intelligence chief. (UPI Photo/Jay L. Clendenin/POOL)