Word: agente
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Surnow did bring it up again, and finally the two (who teamed up for USA's La Femme Nikita) worked backward to write a story that would justify the gimmick. Starting at midnight, counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has 24 hours to foil an attempt to assassinate Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), who is about to become the first major African-American nominee for President. People in Bauer's agency may be in on the hit, so he can't trust anyone. Oh, and his teenage daughter (Elisha Cuthbert) is AWOL in a van with two skeevy-seeming young...
...only destinations in America but in Asia and Europe as well, tearing a big chunk out of the $500 billion global travel and tourism industry. "Last year, we booked 17.8 million trips overseas -- the most ever," says Hiroshi Ueno of Japan Travel Bureau, the nation's leading travel agent. "This year, we were on target for 18.3 million. But after the flood of cancellations, that's an impossible goal...
...Director Dale Watson, currently head of counter-terrorism, to the counterterrorism/national security slot. The task of overseeing criminal investigations - most of the bureau's work - could go to current Assistant Director Reuben Garcia, Assistant Director Barry Mawn, now head of the flagship New York Office, Bruce Gephardt, the special agent in charge in San Francisco, with whom Mueller bonded when he was U.S. Attorney there - or another field commander...
...agent later recounted this story with a laugh. But now, seven weeks after the terrorist attacks, several key suspects in U.S. custody remain uncooperative even as investigators continue to warn that another deadly assault will come soon. Last week the Washington Post reported that some frustrated officials were actually discussing whether to seek approval for using truth drugs on the detainees. (The FBI denied the story.) Another option, since the U.S. would not formally condone torture, is to extradite the most intransigent detainees to allied nations known for bare-knuckle police work--a legally questionable move made on rare occasions...
...renew the detention orders for as long as six months. The Justice Department sought these powers partly because the Sept. 11 inquiry has shown how difficult it is to root out terrorists who hide as law-abiding citizens. But the policy of rounding up all suspects has irked some agents who generally prefer to keep targets free and under surveillance in the hope that they will yield more clues. "I've spent the past two weeks talking to many of the same people I talked to in the first two days, and I'm not getting a whole lot more...