"Obama transition officials, who have steadfastly declined to discuss the personnel selection process, said yesterday that no decisions have been made regarding intelligence appointments. McConnell and Hayden, both career intelligence professionals, interpret the Obama team not reaching out to them as a sign that they will not be kept on, intelligence officials said.

"Both wish to remain on the job, officials say, though neither has said so publicly, and both think that their early departures could be seen as politicizing their offices and setting a precedent"

Unbelievably hypocritical gits!  It was Bush, for whom these integrity challenged loyalist flunkies suppored Bushite lawlessness, and these two minions who helped politicize their offices.

The article continues: "Hayden and McConnell were not directly tainted by the controversies over Iraq and the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, against terrorism suspects. Both, however, publicly defended the use of "extraordinary" interrogation measures that critics labeled torture."

I've written about Michael Hayden, here, here, and here; a lying military martinet strutting around in his uniform while leading a civilian agency, and a torture loving protector of the Bush torture regime. 

And, I've written here, here, here,, for example, about Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence who is a liar and another Bushite loyalist protector for this regime's crimes, mplementing the Bushite policy of risking and compromising our national security by the privatization of intelligence, including McConnell's former private employer

Neither of these untrustworthy Bushite hacks should remain as directors of any US intelligence agency.