2月17日，美国总统布什在白宫宣布，他提名美国首任驻伊大使约翰·内格罗蓬特担任首任美国国家情报局长。现年65岁的内格罗蓬特将负责统管包括中央情报局在内的15个美国不同情报机构的运转，他表示自己将面临40多年来为政府效力的生涯中最严峻的挑战。
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外电报道如下：President Bush named John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as the government's first national intelligence director Thursday, turning to a veteran diplomat to revive a spy community besieged by criticism after the Sept. 11 attacks.

　　Ending a nine-week search, Bush chose Negroponte, who has been in Iraq for less than a year, for the difficult job of implementing the most sweeping intelligence overhaul in 50 years.

　　Negroponte, 65, is tasked with bringing together 15 highly competitive spy agencies and learning to work with the combative Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the brand new CIA Director Porter Goss and other intelligence leaders. He'll oversee a covert intelligence budget estimated at $40 billion.

　　Besiege表示“（军事）包围，团团围住”，例如：Troy was besieged by the Greeks.（特洛伊城被希腊人包围了。）The Prime minister was besieged by reporters.（首相被记者团团围住。）

　　据悉，美国国家情报局长这一职位的热门人选一度包括白宫国土安全顾问汤森、退役美军中央司令部总司令汤米·弗兰克斯、中央情报局长戈斯等人，但重任最终落到了长期担任外交工作的内格罗蓬特头上。

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