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...distrust and hostility, according to hundreds of pages of internal reports and court documents reviewed by Time. Rank-and-file agents have long protested how managers use ATF's internal-affairs unit, which routinely conducts three to five times as many internal probes as the Secret Service's apparatus, even though each agency has roughly 4,000 employees. Magaw explains the differential as partly because of the fact that ATF agents conduct far more gritty street investigations and thus are likely to draw more flak inside and outside the agency. But Magaw also sees the difference as the result...
...Republican agenda in Congress. Newt Gingrich and his colleagues, mounting an all-out attack on big government, bemoan the ineffectiveness and incompetence of government bureaucracy. At the same time--with no argument from Clinton--they strive to put ever-more-powerful weapons in the hands of the criminal justice apparatus; the GOP crime bill passed by the House would speed up the execution process and give police broader search powers. Such selective surgery on governmental powers shows that the Republican crusade isn't mostly about government's fallibility, but about confirming lawmakers' power to judge, to separate the deserving from...
Observe the case of the KGB. Following the departure of Mikhail Gorbachev, its divisions were split into a multitude of less potent directorates eventually accountable to the democratically-elected government. But in the last year, these remnants have reassembled themselves into a spying apparatus not far off in domestic and international power from their predecessor...
...government, seeking to roll back everything from welfare to federal health and safety regulations and to balance the budget through various constitutional contortions. Through it all, Republicans have claimed to hear, like divine inspiration, the clear voice of the American people, instructing them to dismantle the bloated apparatus of the federal government piece by piece...
...provoke a bloody revolution that would not serve Washington's interest in a peaceful transition, says Gillian Gunn, director of the Cuba Project at Georgetown University. Most likely, the bill will not affect Cuba much at all. ``The standard of living has already collapsed by 50%, but the repressive apparatus remains efficient and loyal,'' she argues. For 36 years, dissident Cubans have calculated that their chances of reaching the U.S. on a raft are better than those of unseating Fidel. If a tighter embargo does crank up the pressure on Cuba, the exodus might only intensify...