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CIA-Director Nominee Gen. Michael Hayden

will have to be confirmed by both the Intelligence and the Armed Services committees. ABC News’s Z. Byron Wolf: “A four-star general cannot be reassigned without the say-so of the Armed Services Committee. So, President Bush has essentially nominated Hayden to two posts. One as CIA Director and the other as a reassigned four-star general.”

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