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...date was Friday, Feb. 25. It was a busy day at the White House: Clinton held a press conference to talk about the massacre of Muslims in a Hebron mosque and the U.S. deportation of a senior Russian diplomat as a retaliatory move in the Aldrich Ames spy case. Nonetheless, Stephanopoulos and Ickes found time to call Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who was also acting head of the RTC, using the speakerphone in Stephanopoulos' office. They had just learned that Altman had finally decided to disqualify himself from dealing with any matters related to Madison because of previous contacts...
...must wonder what prevents our government from arbitrarily dropping into any simple e-mail conversation or personal file in the name of national security? But, of curse, we must not forget the high integrity of secure government agencies. (Like that shown by the Aldrich Ames affair, for example...
...they demanded, could Aldrich Ames have spied for Moscow since 1985 without detection by his CIA colleagues? Seated at a table below the opening of the curve, Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey parried the questions with candor, defensiveness and anger. Yes, there had been warning signs that Ames might be a problem: a drinking habit, a foreign-born wife, a lavish life-style that far exceeded his $69,843 annual salary. Yes, suspicions should have deepened when Ames showed some signs of deception on polygraph tests...
Federal prosecutors unveiled some of the evidence collected against accused CIA mole Aldrich Ames and his wife. Among the items: nine pages of instructions from the Soviets, including an entry indicating that Ames unmasked an East European security officer; and an accounting statement from Moscow noting that by 1989 some $2.7 million -- more than previously thought -- had already been appropriated to Ames for his work...
Like the never-ending snowfalls which announce themselves just as we think winter is finally over, Aldrich Ames hits the press to remind us that the Cold War is not so distant a memory (apt comparison, no? We think so.). Of course, we all know he's being set up, but that doesn't stop the story from being far more interesting and revealing than Whitewater. Give the scandal a rest, guys...