Who will Obama select as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency?

Of interest . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/us/politics/08thumblake.html

Another article:
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2008/11/who-will-run-cia.html

I'm curious about who people would put in the "Other" category, if their thinking is coalescing around an individual or two. Such as Steve Kappes, current DD/CIA

"The intelligence-transition team is led by former National Counterterrorism Center chief John Brennan and former CIA intelligence-analysis director Jami Miscik, say officials close to the matter. Mr. Brennan is viewed as a potential candidate for a top intelligence post. Ms. Miscik left amid a slew of departures from the CIA under then-Director Porter Goss." WSJ, 11/11/08

Blog calls it as John Brennan: http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/john-brennans-approach-as-the-new-cia-director/

You are missing some options.

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2008/11/14/obamas-intel-possibilities/

Are you going to add these?

More evidence supporting a Brennan appointment: http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/a_clue_as_to_the_identity_of_t.php

@iowagal Good article, thanks for posting it. I'm not going to change the question answers at this late stage. I'm also limited to 10 options so I can't include anymore at this point. I suppose the "Other person not described above" option is the best bet for those candidates.

Brennan Pulls Out Of Running For CIA Chief

WASHINGTON — John Brennan, President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser on intelligence, took his name out of the running Tuesday for any intelligence position in the new administration. Brennan wrote in a Nov. 25 letter to Obama that he did not want to be a distraction. His potential appointment has raised a firestorm in liberal blogs that associate him with the Bush administration's interrogation, detention and rendition policies.

"It is with profound regret that I respectfully ask that my name be withdrawn from consideration for a position within the intelligence community. The challenges ahead of our nation are too daunting, and the role of the CIA too critical, for there to be any distraction from the vital work that lays ahead," Brennan wrote.

Obama's advisers had grown increasingly concerned in recent days over online blogs that accused Brennan of condoning harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects, including waterboarding, which critics consider torture.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/brennan-pulls-out-of-runn_n_146419.html

It is widely expected that Mr. Obama will replace Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director. Among those mentioned as possible candidates for the job are Stephen R. Kappes, a C.I.A. veteran who is the deputy director; Tim Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana who was a member of the Sept. 11 commission; Senator Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican who is retiring from the Senate in January; and Jack Devine, a former head of the agency’s clandestine service who left the C.I.A. before the Sept. 11 attacks.

The flap over Mr. Brennan, who served as a chief of staff to George J. Tenet when he ran the C.I.A., was the biggest glitch so far in what has been an otherwise smooth transition for Mr. Obama. Some C.I.A. veterans suggest that the president-elect may have difficulty finding a candidate who can be embraced by both veteran officials at the agency and the left flank of the Democratic Party.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/us/politics/03intel.html

Obama picks Panetta for CIA director
Associated Press
January 6, 2009

Washington -- Two Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA. Panetta was a surprise pick for the post, with no experience in the intelligence world. An Obama transition official and another Democrat disclosed his nomination on a condition of anonymity since it was not yet public. Panetta was director of the Office of Management and Budget and a longtime congressman from California. He served on the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that released a report at the end of 2006 with dozens of recommendations for the reversing course in the Iraq war.

Panetta currently directs with his wife, Sylvia, the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at Cal State Monterey Bay -- a university he helped establish on the site of the former U.S. Army base, Fort Ord. Meanwhile, Democratic sources also said that retired Admiral Dennis Blair is Obama's choice to be director of national intelligence. Nomination of the former head of U.S. Pacific Command has been expected. Blair served in the Navy for 34 years and he was chief of the U.S. Pacific Command during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Blair is also a China expert, and he was an associate director for military support at the CIA.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-cia-panetta-2009jan06,0,3965605.story