have been an invaluable asset in the period before 9/11 and succeeding years. As a direct result, hundreds of the most experienced analysts took early retirement, and DIA has had to play catch-up ever since to reconstruct its analytic capability.

Retired U.S. Army Col. Pat Lang, who held some of the most senior positions at DIA, told me Friday, Clapper is a man who is just a walking mass of ambition.

What I find most damaging, though, is the fact that Clapper was head of the National Geo-spatial Agency from 2001 to 2006. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld chose well, for his purposes.

It is abundantly clear that Clapper smothered any imagery analyst who suggested that, since there was not a trace of WMD in the various kinds of available imagery ofcontinued in each successor agreement until the 1984-87 proposed contract in which the clause was deleted without notice to appellees or to the union membership.
On March 14, 1984, appellees filed an unfair *252 labor practice charge with the MERC complaining that, approximately twelve years earlier, LSEA had represented that appellees would be exempted from the agency shop requirement in exchange for their nonopposition to LSEA'S recognition as their exclusive bargaining representative, and that the union's unilateral abrogation of that exemption constituted, among other things, a breach of the duty of fair representation. On March 21, 1984, the MERC issued a complaint against appellants and notice of hearing to be held May 10, 1984. Appellants, on April 2, 1984, filed a motion, with accompanying brief, to dismiss for failure