Zero-experience Ambassador Richard Grenell picked to run entire US intelligence system

This just can't be good, all politics aside. Ambassador Richard Grenell has been named Director National Intelligence.

That's an important job, full stop! That's a "keep the world from exploding today" kind of job. However, it is also apparently one where zero intelligence or military experience is considered useful. I disagree.

Why? Reporting to him and requiring masterful supervision are sixteen agencies with tens of thousands of staff all around the world that comprise the US National Intelligence Community. Ambassador Grenell hasn't even visited a quarter of them, much less mastered the intricacies of serving the President as the nation's spy chief.

There are many other loyal, as well as better qualified, leaders in the US government who could have stepped forward to serve. The Ambassador, although blessed with a solid advanced education plus 19 years in government service, has never managed any organization half the size of the smallest agency now reporting to him. I wish this gentleman the very best luck, because anything less is going to hurt America. A lot. 

Because he had Senate confirmation to his earlier post of ambassador to Germany, he won't face any challenge from senators of either party concerned with his lack of professional experience...and many have already expressed their worries. Republican congressional and media voices mainly praise his anticipated loyalty rather than his talents. Loyalty is cited as his chief job qualification.

Hello?? Loyalty isn't cited as the qualification needed to fly airplanes, repair
computers, paint houses, do taxes, pull teeth, teach students, drive trucks, direct orchestras, print newspapers, write poetry, fry eggs, clean bathrooms, weld steel, or anything other than, as with Mr. Grenell, keeping America, our allies and the world from exploding. All while losing as few lives as possible in a hostile international setting. Sorry for the run-on sentences.

This mistake is like assigning some hyper-loyal buddy with a farming background to be Surgeon General or Attorney General. These are obviously illogical selections because of the professional qualifications actually needed. In the very real case of Mr. Grenell as our spy chief responsible for preventing wars and more 9/11 disasters, his assignment to head the National Intelligence Community has much greater potential to harm the nation.

Wish our new spy chief all the luck...we'll need it.

Depending on Mr. Grenell's leadership and professionalism in guiding their operations are:

Sixteenth Air Force, United States Air Force

Intelligence and Security Command, US Army

Central Intelligence Agency

Coast Guard Intelligence

Defense Intelligence Agency

Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Department of Energy

Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security

Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Department of Treasury

Office of National Security Intelligence, Drug Enforcement Administration

Intelligence Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Marine Corps Intelligence Activity Corps

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, DOD

National Reconnaissance Office, DOD

National Security Agency/Central Security Service, DOD

Office of Naval Intelligence, United States Navy