Tony Lake, marked man. (Central Intelligence Agency director nominee Anthony Lake)(Lexington)(Column)
Economist (US), The, February, 1997
Lake may not be the best nominee for the position of CIA director, but not for the reasons Republican legislators give. Lake has never managed an organization as large as the CIA or demonstrated the type of leadership the organization needs.
TIME was when Anthony Lake, the camera-shy national security adviser during Bill Clinton's first term, operated so far behind the scenes that he could appear in a group photograph published by the New York Times and be described as an "unidentified man". Nowadays, anonymity is not an option. Mr Lake is President Clinton's nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Republicans have identified him as one of two people (the other is the proposed labour secretary, Alexis Herman) whose confirmation by the Senate will be...
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