Via my ex-boss, Mark Mazzetti reports for The New York Times that Dianne Feinstein's choice for CIA director, Steve Kappes, might remain deputy director as part of a plan to mollify the new chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee ahead of Leon Panetta's confirmation hearings:

 Mr. Obama said Tuesday that Mr. Panetta and other members of the new administration would be “committed to breaking with some of the past practices” that had “tarnished the image” of the United States’ intelligence agencies.

But transition officials said Mr. Obama also intended to keep the C.I.A’s No. 2 official, Stephen R. Kappes, a highly regarded former Marine officer and agency veteran. The transition officials spoke on condition of anonymity about the personnel move, a plan that could help defuse criticism inside the C.I.A. about Mr. Panetta’s own thin background in intelligence.

Yes, that Steve Kappes. As deputy director, Kappes won't go through any confirmation hearings, so the Abu Omar affair and his role in it -- in whatever capacity -- will remain incomplete, as will his successes in Libya and elsewhere. Of course, the CIA didn't tell Mazzetti what Kappes' own plans for the future are, so this may all be a moot point, but still.

You know who has it really hard in America? Like really hard? Conservative actors. Luckily, they have their own J Street in Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood. My personal favorite post so far is this one, from someone named Gary Graham, who pronounces himself "one pissed off dude." And I can relate to that. But what are you pissed off about?

I’m pissed off that everyone seems okay on having to press one for English. We’re supposed to be tolerant and understanding that maybe some folks who now live here (legally or not) might have trouble understanding what I’m saying to them if I speak in my native tongue, regardless of the extra cost to the rest of us. FTS.

By "FTS," he means Fuck That Shit, and by "That Shit," he means brown people. Who speaks for the beleaguered white racist Hollywood actor, dammit? This country's going to the fucking dogs!

But who is Gary Graham, anyway, and why have the faggot Jew producers kept his acting talents from you? According to his BH bio:

...from 1990 to 1996 starred as Matt Sikes in FOX TV's “ALIEN NATION”...

Alien Nation! You thought it was a melodramatic sci-fi parable about racial tolerance. In truth it was about how the Slags need to go back to Tencton where they belong. Is it too much to ask that I walk into a bar and not get served some sour milk? Big Hollywood is going to be an oasis for our kind of people.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 008-09
January 06, 2009
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Lance Cpl. Chadwick A. Gilliam, 29, of Mayking, Ky., died Jan. 3 at a U.S. military base in Kuwait. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

The official cause of death is pending the results of the autopsy.

For additional background information on this Marine, news media representatives may contact the II Marine Expeditionary Force public affairs office at(910) 451-7200.