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The almost-always-estimable talkingpointsmemo.com has a terrific analysis of the very real possibility that the accession of Michael Hayden to the post of CIA director will be followed by the diversion of important functions--such as covert operations--from the Agency to the Department of Defense.

Could it be that fear of just this kind of move motivated Republican Congressman Peter Hoekstra, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, to oppose Hayden even before he was nominated?

More and more, the Bush administration reminds one of the classic description of the Bourbon monarchs of France: "They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing."