text: Fair enough, but are you suggesting that the appointment of General-grade officers to key positions such as "serving as the U.S. military intelligence -chief- in Afghanistan," an active war zone and a particular focus of the Administrations War on Terror, the subject of daily briefings to the White House with that same General's sign-off on all the information therein, occurs without any oversight, direction, or authorization from the White House?  This isn't some anonymous Captain in charge of a grunt unit.