James R. Clapper Jr. Leading Candidate to Replace Blair

The Washington Post reports that James R. Clapper Jr. is currently considered a leading candidate for Dennis Blair's job:

Three years after the lunch in Rumsfeld's office, Clapper, a lanky retired Air Force general with a shaved head and silvery goatee, was installed as undersecretary of defense for intelligence, with control over the agencies that he had argued to Rumsfeld ought to be under the new director of national intelligence, or DNI.

Clapper, who has spent more than 45 years in intelligence work, is the leading candidate to become the next DNI.

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